Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pn reflx] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Country people may well have to look to themselves in the future , and to the skills of men like Dave Dunn . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted softly as she continued to stare at herself in the full-length mirror . |
| 4 | Take the time to look at yourself in the mirror and recognise the improvements . |
| 5 | Every morning , the first thing Narcissus did when he woke up was to look at himself in the mirror . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | She deliberately refused to look at herself in the strategically placed mirror . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was at this period that I began to think about myself in the third person : Elizabeth is compassionate and considerate , she thinks how other people might feel . |
| 10 | He should try to think of himself in the kind of situations which the drill sentences suggest . |
| 11 | Soon I shall start snarling at visitors and grubbing for nourishment in the fields , simply because I can not bear to think of myself in the same category as Betty , and she has laid claim to humanity . |
| 12 | For those who want to cater for themselves in the fully equipped kitchenettes , there 's a supermarket right opposite the apartments . |
| 13 | Domestic cats left to fend for themselves in the wild would still spend much of their time asleep , and conserve their energy for hunting at dawn and dusk . |
| 14 | Having dug its way out of the compost heap , it must immediately start to fend for itself in the hostile world of the mallee scrub . |
| 15 | There was once a poor shoemaker who had three fine strong sons and two pretty daughters and a third , who could do nothing well , who shivered plates and tangled her spinning , who curdled milk , could not get butter to come , nor set a fire so that smoke did not pour into the room , a useless , hopeless , dreaming daughter , to whom her mother would often say that she should try to fend for herself in the wild wood , and then she would know the value of listening to advice , and of doing things properly . |