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Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1	Dynamics of survival within the NMGC must be related to the role which the organisation has defined and redefined for itself in the light of a changing understanding of marital problems over time and in relation to the work of other agencies .
2	It would be misleading to corrall all the donated works into feminist questioning of gendered identity ; one of the freedoms women have won for themselves over the last 20 years has been precisely those freedoms from conventional definition by gender .
3	They are not brethren , they are not underlings ; they are other nations , caught with ourselves in the net of life and time , fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth .
4	‘ Have you looked at yourself in the mirror lately ? ’
5	I was saying , oh yeah erm Shrimpy like , we , me and Scott were playing snooker and I , I came in to see if like , either of you , anyone else wanted to play doubles and like , Swimp , Shrimpy was just sat by himself in the middle of the floor , cross-legged just sat there like a little pixie or something !
6	A hollow-eyed Maltote had taken a strangely exhausted Ranulf off to their own lodgings so the clerk and his wife had dined by themselves in the small hall below and spent the rest of the time here in their bedchamber .
7	This information will be considered by ourselves at the key features review and due diligence stages .
8	When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time .
9	AMERICANS have decided for themselves at the polls now it 's your turn to vote , vote , vote for the winners of the 5th Whitbread Scouseology Awards .
10	This was because human beings worked things out in their minds in terms of concepts and moral rules , and these concepts and rules were not things the individual made for himself on the spur of the moment .
11	In his latter years he created an elaborate water garden at the cottage ornée he had built for himself on the outskirts of Plymouth , and was wont to drive round the streets of the town in a gig disguised as a Roman war chariot , looking , in Wightwick 's words ‘ ( as far as his true English face and costume allowed ) like Ictinus of the Parthenon , ‘ out for a lark ’ . ’
12	In the summer of 1939 Boulestin left as usual to spend his holidays in the house he had built for himself in the Landes .
13	In 1829–30 , like his father before him , he served as mayor of Kendal , and in addition to the house he had built for himself in the town ( c .1823 ) he had a country property in Lindale , Lancashire , which he inherited from his father , and he later built an occasional residence in nearby Grange-over-Sands .
14	That rite is turned against itself in the way that the Lord 's Prayer of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ is involved in an anti-Lord 's Prayer .
15	We pray for men and women in lands where there is hatred of one group for another , that their hearts may be turned to yourself in the search for righteousness and truth .
16	I feared that without him I would batten down the hatches of the physical part of me and crawl back inside the shell which I had built around myself in the three years before he blew through my life .
17	Once we received this letter we will despatch the Information memorandum with detailed guidance as to the procedure to be adopted by yourselves during the sale process .
18	For centuries , man has thought of himself as the most highly evolved form of life on earth , using his five senses to build up a composite and highly complex picture of the world around him .
19	The subtle mind used against itself by the simple mind .
20	er the E C has really bought upon itself with the common agricultural policy a big animal that is very slow to move and it 's not really any advantages of each individual .
21	The contemplation on the Godhead is an explanation of the Trinity as God , the original creative power , who enjoys the goodness of company in the Son whose wisdom is bound to himself by the love which is the Holy Ghost .
22	I was called to myself by the echoing hoot of the ferry 's siren , to find that the shop had emptied of its crowd , and the postmistress , taking off her spectacles , was hurrying round to the store counter to look after the stranger .
23	It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy .
24	The amount of power ministers had seized for themselves over the development of young people was also worrying .
25	The final cost of the garden was $5 million , almost entirely financed by herself through the sale of those deceptively decorated polyester sculptures , perfume and furniture .
26	These men referred to themselves as the ‘ Hollywood Hellraisers ’ .
27	But still the employers resisted , and it was not until August 1917 that discontent among seamen led the government to establish joint meetings between the Ministry of Shipping , the NSFU and the Shipping Federation , with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping , Sir Leo Chiozza Money as chairman , from which there evolved in the following November a joint " National Maritime Marine Board " , of the kind which Wilson had long advocated , which within a few weeks referred to itself as the National Maritime Board .
28	Their horses were saddled and waiting , their farewells to the prior and brothers already made , and Hugh just reaching for his bridle , when Nicol came trudging sturdily in at the gatehouse , soiled and bruised and hoisting himself along on a staff he had cut for himself in the forest .
29	Finally , in February 1470 , the king regranted the offices which Warwick had taken for himself in the previous August , with Gloucester again the main beneficiary .
30	Finally , in February 1470 , the king regranted the offices which Warwick had taken for himself in the previous August , with Gloucester again the main beneficiary .