Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] [det] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We regarded ourselves as more hostages than prisoners . |
| 2 | What Gunn means by this is , I think , that everyone realises the risks but yet we all feel a tendency to delude ourselves of any possibility that it might happen to us . |
| 3 | We do rather think of ourselves in this area as ‘ Medaus out in the sticks ’ , being a long way from the hub , so to speak . |
| 4 | And it 's to you , the readers , that we beg one week 's indulgence as we uncurl our lips , pat ourselves on that back and take you , in the next 46 pages , on a runaway rollercoaster ride through the stuff and nonsense , faces and fads , ecstatic highs and miserable lows that have littered 40 years of doing battle with the monster that is popular culture . |
| 5 | The social and political implications of Gandhi 's quest for Truth will also be dealt with in later chapters and for the moment we shall confine ourselves to such questions as how he goes about acquiring glimpses of absolute Truth and how he knows that it is absolute Truth he has actually caught a glimpse of . |
| 6 | Meaning is not simply in an utterance , irrespective of the participants : to understand it we must take into account the inter-subjectivity of the participants , addressing ourselves to such questions as who controls the meaning and the nature of the reference . |
| 7 | Of course we knew we were going to marry , we promised ourselves to each other when she was only sixteen . |
| 8 | He had enough for his day-to-day needs , of course , but he would be hard-pressed to see himself through another month if he was to live in the style befitting a gentleman . |
| 9 | A key tradition claims St Magnus refused to arm himself for this battle and chose to sing from his psalter on King Magnus 's ship , surviving unhurt in the midst of the fray . |
| 10 | In 1330 , however , Edward III successfully rid himself of that control and Mortimer was himself executed . |
| 11 | When she thought of her son-in-law , how he had inveigled himself into this house and into this old woman 's good books , she again felt a pity for Len rise in her . |
| 12 | Harvey , who had the reputation of a coureur , would run himself into more trouble if he were not careful . |
| 13 | In France , Bernard found himself with more time than he had ever been used to in his working life ; after his hour-long morning telephone call to John James the day stretched ahead . |
| 14 | Not necessarily that of mother and son ; Steve had detached himself from that hook and would never be hung on it again . |
| 15 | Will he dissociate himself from that comment and will he take action today to see that the hon. Gentleman concerned is ’ liberated ’ from his ministerial duties ? |
| 16 | The publisher has formed a limited liability company to protect himself from such contingencies but nevertheless has tried to pass this liability to the private individual . |
| 17 | A driver had wrenched himself from another machine and was running back . |
| 18 | The solicitor detached himself from another group and joined them . |
| 19 | Gandhi dissociated himself from this development and withdrew from politics until 1939 , when the outbreak of the Second World War stirred him to political action again . |
| 20 | He needed all his skill and tact if he was going to extricate himself from this situation and spend the night sleeping in his hotel bed , alone . |
| 21 | So it is a relief , occasionally , to get a quotation from such as Gilbert White , who , in one paragraph about the hard frost of 1784 , sparkles like Jack himself in such even-toned and worthy surroundings . |
| 22 | Sir Robert Dalyell of the Binns clearly saw himself in that light when , in 1760 , he approached Lord Milton to inform him of his wish to be of use to Milton 's politics in West Lothiah . |
| 23 | That strength comes from the fact that Eubank knows how to look after himself in more ways than one . |
| 24 | It was as if he were preparing for the day he would be a big man himself in this town and wanted everyone on his side , wanted them all to think of him as a customer . |
| 25 | And he 'd probably have to resign himself to that situation until he returned to Winchester . |
| 26 | He had already committed himself to more work than he could handle because he was inexperienced at making deals and having to turn down work . |
| 27 | He helped himself to another brandy and waved the bottle before Herr Nordern 's eyes . |
| 28 | His illness began to manifest itself during this time but , being David , he refused to allow it to interfere with his duties as President . |
| 29 | The basic premiss , usually , is that whatever exists in a fundamental sense does not depend upon anything external to itself for own existence and is in every way self-sufficient , which is regarded as analytically true . |
| 30 | The Socialist League defended itself against any suggestion that it was exceeding its limited aims . |