Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best thing about TAG 's heartening play ( recently returned from a British Council trip to Singapore ) is its sympathetic , though occasionally sentimental , view of what life is like for people who courageously transplant themselves into another culture . |
| 2 | Mr Bérégovoy , who so prided himself as a good manager , had to hear Edouard Balladur , the new prime minister , describe the economy as being in its worst state since the second world war . |
| 3 | Girls who suddenly find themselves with enormous breasts may collapse in on themselves in embarrassment or try to hide behind folded arms , and the result is an equally collapsed voice which often gives out altogether at crucial moments . |
| 4 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 5 | One of his bands are at the Paprika tonight ; they are called Dance Lance and they consist of three limber , head-shaven , androgynous boys who all knight themselves with the same name , which is Ron . |
| 6 | Lloyd & Co. had received their instructions from a member of Mr. Mahdi 's group who apparently described himself as the ‘ foreign minister ’ of the Somali Republic . |
| 7 | The Iranians , who soon freed themselves from Hellenistic control and always escaped that of Rome , were also the only nation which the Greeks had known and appraised before Alexander . |
| 8 | The use of I in the paraphrase suggests moreover that it is the speaker who somehow sees himself before the infinitive event because it implies that he has not yet realized his desire . |
| 9 | JAMES THURBER 'S short story , ‘ The Catbird Seat ’ , tells of mild-mannered Mr Martin , who deliberately turns himself into a boor for one evening . |
| 10 | It might be wise to include provisions ( Clause 28.01 ) for some form of substituted service to cover the case of a partner who deliberately absents himself from the firm , whether such absence is the ground for his expulsion or otherwise . |
| 11 | The former England amateur international , who still plays himself in the Bluebell Over 40 league on a Saturday morning , has persuaded several ex pros to come along , including former Sunderland and Ipswich forward Eric Gates , Hartlepool manager Alan Murray , former Newcastle and Sunderland centre half Jeff Clarke , former Middlesbrough defender Dickie Rooks and former Newcastle striker Alan Shoulder . |
| 12 | He is the God who specially reveals himself to one people : |
| 13 | In searching for publications this will give a skewed result for those supervisors who always name themselves as the first author in multi-authored works . |
| 14 | Finn married a witch called Saar , who usually manifested herself as a deer . |
| 15 | As a consequence Bush , who once described himself as an " education president " , ended his four-year term without having signed a single piece of legislation designed to improve US schools . |
| 16 | The three incumbents , Neely , Ross Dykes , and Bruce Taylor , were joined by Glenn Turner , m Lance Cairns ( who also offered himself as coach if Lees did n't stand ) , and Bruce Morrison ( who dismissed Dexter and Parfitt in his only Test , in 1962–63 ) . |
| 17 | The earthly rule of Osiris was that of a just and wise king , who organised the agricultural , religious and secular life of his people , and who also concerned himself with peaceful foreign conquest , ably assisted by Isis , by his vizier Thoth , and by his officials Anubis and Wepwawet . |
| 18 | Nice gestures both , I reflected bitterly , and both typical gestures of any young man in a hospital bed who temporarily imagines himself in love with one of his nurses as a form of occupational therapy . |
| 19 | The work has voices in the first two movements , but is essentially for solo organ , dazzlingly played by Gaston Litaize , who clearly enjoys himself of the magnificent beast which lives in the church of St. Francois-Xavier in Paris . |
| 20 | After all Dr Kugelmann recommended Karlsbad to so untypical a member of the middle class as Karl Marx , who carefully registered himself as a ‘ man of private means ’ to avoid identification , until he discovered that as Dr Marx he could save some of the rather steep Kurtaxe . |
| 21 | Napoleon 's Number One Fan , who during Abel Gance 's film was accused by the man in the next seat of masturbating underneath his hat and splashing his wife , but who stoutly defended himself by saying that the unfortunate staining would never have happened if she had n't nudged him and thus dislodged the titfer from his lap . |
| 22 | The preacher at its official opening in 1896 was the Revd John Hugh Smyth-Pigott who later proclaimed himself to be Jesus Christ and who became Prince 's successor at the Agapemone . |
| 23 | Those who now equip themselves with good educational qualifications , training in modern management techniques , write and speak fluently and are comfortable with modern technology , will find satisfying and rewarding careers in either public relations or advertising . |
| 24 | The book will examine the industrial changes that influenced the separate development of ‘ company men ’ in America , Europe and Asia — men who now find themselves in competition with each other . |
| 25 | Yet when Cornwall pronounces him the new Earl of Gloucester , and orders him to seek his father out , Edmund has yet another layer of pretence at hand : Edmund 's perversion of such words as ‘ nature ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ , and ‘ blood ’ is grimly evident to us , but not to Cornwall — who may not understand those terms , in any case — and who now puts himself into the position of an adopted father to Edmund : ‘ I will lay trust upon thee ; and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love ’ ( 24f . ) . |
| 26 | VAT is a dirty word among small businesses , mainly because this tax places considerable administrative burdens upon business people , who often consider themselves to be unpaid tax collectors . |
| 27 | Not only does that provide a common bond among humanity to evolve spiritually , but it gives an insight into the nature of a God who often reveals Himself in paradox . |
| 28 | That section is in the following terms : ( 1 ) Every one who by words spoken or written or by conduct represents himself , or who knowingly suffers himself to be represented , as a partner in a particular firm , is liable as a partner to any one who has on the faith of any such representation given credit to the firm , whether the representation has or has not been made or communicated to the person so giving credit by or with the knowledge of the apparent partner making the representation or suffering it to be made . |
| 29 | It was very much an artisan street this , but with a smattering of richer folk , too , so the shearmen , scribblers , shoemakers , carpenters and shop-keepers were neighbours to an attorney and two well-heeled clothiers — Thomas Clement , employing 11 scribblers and 12 shearmen , and Henry Sheppard , who even described himself as a ‘ Gentleman ’ . |
| 30 | Ortega 's defeat crushed a lot of left-wing supporters around the world , but it did not set back Gould , who immediately plunged himself into a new project . |