Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we see ourselves entering into this market not immediately but in the not too distant future . |
| 2 | Why , I asked , did he find it acceptable for an artist to have to put up with the paltry sums of money he offered when he himself lived in such style ? |
| 3 | ‘ It is a humiliating thought , but true , ’ wrote one of them , the educational reformer J. H. Pestalozzi , ‘ that any advance in the good leadership of people must proceed from the cabinets of monarchs ’ ; and he himself acted on this thought by offering his services to the Habsburg emperors Joseph II and Leopold II . |
| 4 | Charlie found himself waiting in another queue before coming face to face with the sergeant again . |
| 5 | He 'll find himself going into some supermarket in Praed Street , buying fillets of plaice and frozen broccoli for her sons ' dinner … |
| 6 | Every civil servant finds himself entrusted with this kind of inheritance . |
| 7 | He side-slipped to miss three tightly spiralling planes , and found himself drifting into another cluster . |
| 8 | Darwin himself contributed to this trend by bringing back fossils from the voyage of the Beagle showing that the past inhabitants of South America were closely related to the modern ones . |
| 9 | Gorbachev himself contributed to this task in an extended statement , ‘ The socialist idea and revolutionary perestroika' , which appeared in Pravda in November 1989 . |
| 10 | Albeit with certain symbolic variations , Jesus himself conforms to this pattern . |
| 11 | McLeish found himself shocked by this piece of feminine sharpness and must have registered something because his sergeant blushed . |
| 12 | However , God Himself dealt with that barrier when God the Son , Jesus Christ , came to earth and sacrifice Himself on the Cross of Calvary to pay the penalty for the sins of others . |
| 13 | Sidgwick himself settles without much ado for total welfare . |
| 14 | Max Weber was an ardent nationalist whose political sociology was guided by the principle of the ‘ primacy of the interests of the nation state ’ , which he enunciated vigorously in his inaugural lecture at Freiburg in 1895 ; but he did not set himself to examine with any thoroughness the grounds of such ‘ primacy ’ . |
| 15 | The fluency with which he himself wrote about this period was born out of a particular requirement . |
| 16 | They are submissive but dignified , with that look of yearning that brings to mind Ehrenburg 's comment that Modigliani saw all his subjects as lost children : his own Jeanne , Zborowski , and perhaps most of all , although he would never admit it , he himself come into that category . |
| 17 | I , I was not present , I was not present but the committee itself , and regrettably the Chairman 's not here either , of the Planning Committee erm itself got into some difficulty by accepting and voting on a proposal to approve the application subject to the provision of a suitable link road . |
| 18 | Note that this general use of the term unit is different from that used in the NHS , where a unit is defined as an administrative subdivision of a health district and may itself consist of several hospital sites , each of which would be subdivided into cost/responsibility centres . |
| 19 | This test is based on the following implications of the hypothesis : if expectations of a variable are rational , they are formed in accordance with the process determining that variable and therefore they will depend upon any set of past variables in exactly the same way as the variable itself depends upon that set of past variables . |
| 20 | However , the CNAA 's Model C would go further by uniting the functions of funding , academic planning and course validation under one body and envisages the possibility of the CNAA itself developing into that body . |
| 21 | If disaster struck and many of these things were destroyed , the name itself preserved in some form or other was sufficient for eternal survival . |
| 22 | In La Male Honte , " Foul shame " ( although the title itself is ambiguous , representing Anglo-French " The purse of Honte " , and the fabliau itself revolves around this ambiguity ) , the deceased Honte 's friend carries the legacy due to the crown to the king " " a son col " " : simply , " on his back " , although since we know that we are reading a " " fablel " " we are especially prepared for a word such as col = " arse " , and have to carry forward in our minds to the rest of the fabliau the notion that it might be significant that the friend carries what is due to the king on his backside . |
| 23 | Strangest of all is the fact that the art itself suffers by this treatment , as the circumstances surrounding the paintings and what they signify are examined perhaps at the expense of the technical representations . |
| 24 | Egypt concluded that it ‘ does not consider itself bound by that Memorandum or whatever commitments to which it was not a party or on which it was not consulted ’ . |
| 25 | This study has now been tied to a vision of Englishness which is itself insulated from any concern with cultural power and control . |
| 26 | But there is talk of citizenship involving a ‘ duty to work ’ in the United States , which could find itself transplanted to this country — indeed it already exists in some of the social security regulations — or a legal duty to control children , which is what is implied by an idea under consideration by the government to make parents responsible for fines imposed on their children . |
| 27 | But this moral relationship can only produce its effect if the real distance between individuals has itself diminished in some way . |
| 28 | The home can , therefore , be seen as a potentially significant source of ontological security , even if large numbers of people finding such security in the same place at the same time can itself lead to much anxiety . |
| 29 | The boy was not then aware , of course , of how frequently an idling or unanchored mind can be disturbed by the accidental experience of receiving luminous images from out of clear , sharp light when it is itself cast in any sort of shadow . |
| 30 | To keep up with the competitive pressure put on it from Thomson and Intasun , Horizon was itself diversifying in this period . |