Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , to emphasise the personal and private nature of moral or immoral conduct is to emphasise the personal and private responsibility of the individual for his own actions , and this is a responsibility which a mature agent can properly be expected to carry for himself without the threat of punishment from the law . |
| 2 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 3 | They might actually find it impossible to conceive of themselves without the slaves or serfs who defined their status . |
| 4 | The treatment of Abdulkerim by Katib Celebi and his followers is consistent ( and interesting ) in so far as they rightly , one believes , place his Muftilik in the time of Mehmed II , in accordance with the and as opposed to the view of the unmodified traditional account ; but on the assumption that the available texts of Katib Celebi and Hezarfen are accurate , the writers connected with the Katib Celebi view appear to differ amongst themselves about the nature and timing of his Muftilik , possibly because Katib Celebi " s list is particularly cryptic and , at first sight , confused at this point . |
| 5 | Mairi complained , wishing that Ranald was still at home , and Ranald repeated the need to Hector ; who thought about it , and then started to come down himself with the youngsters . |
| 6 | Already we were beginning to talk among ourselves about the feasibility of a Hungarian-type reform to replace the central planning mechanism which Stalin had created in the 1930s . |
| 7 | ‘ I will escort you up the first flight of stairs , but I shall observe the proprieties by leaving you to look after yourself on the second landing . ’ |
| 8 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |
| 9 | After all , Italian midfields have been able to look after themselves over the years . |
| 10 | She had been nineteen when her mother died , old enough to notice how poor old Pa seemed to shrink inside himself at the time . |
| 11 | In the late twentieth century , therefore , people may find the mystical experiment , which also urges the adept to look within himself for the truth and warns against the danger of simplistic ideas and projections about God , a more attractive form of religion than the more conventional and dogmatic types of faith . |
| 12 | Country people may well have to look to themselves in the future , and to the skills of men like Dave Dunn . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted softly as she continued to stare at herself in the full-length mirror . |
| 14 | Take the time to look at yourself in the mirror and recognise the improvements . |
| 15 | Every morning , the first thing Narcissus did when he woke up was to look at himself in the mirror . |
| 16 | That was the psychological moment : but she also remembered another , a turning-point in physical ageing , ‘ when I began to hate to look at myself in the glass . ’ |
| 17 | She deliberately refused to look at herself in the strategically placed mirror . |
| 18 | She made Terry try it on , take it off , changed something else , and finally , at gone midnight , she had done all that she could do , and only then did she allow Terry to look at herself in the mirror . |
| 19 | Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive . |
| 20 | Women may not be free to walk by themselves along the streets . |
| 21 | She loved to walk by herself on the wild lonely moors , with her dog Keeper running by her side . |
| 22 | The question of what he was to do with himself for the rest of his life was never properly resolved in his mind or anyone else 's , which perhaps accounts for his periodic assaults on the whiskey bottle — what Minto called ‘ Warnie 's benders ’ . |
| 23 | We do n't quite know what to do with ourselves at the moment . |
| 24 | This last quality — encouraged by Ashcroft Noble — he had learned to recognize in himself during the period of growth between the boy naturalist of The Childhood and the much-sought-after undergraduate writer of Lincoln College who breathes freely through the ornate pages of his own Oxford . |
| 25 | As he was about to sit down himself on the cross-seat , Joshua caught his arm . |
| 26 | The United Kingdom 's right to decide for itself on the merits of a single currency is not an important factor in investment decisions . |
| 27 | And finally , remember you have to live with yourself for the rest of your life : you only have to put up with your counterpart for a short time . |
| 28 | I had to live with myself for the rest of my life . |
| 29 | News page is a job that Meany has endeavoured to thrust upon himself with the kind of enthusiasm reserved for African Pygmies on an Easter rhino hunt . |
| 30 | Experts say an analysis of the figures shows women are more likely than men to lie to themselves about the amount they drink . |