Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Meanwhile , manager Billy Bingham was happy with his team 's victory on a rain-sodden pitch in Vilnius but admitted : ‘ We put pressure on ourselves in the second half .
2 We shall have to ask ourselves in the next lecture to what extent they succeeded with so little Latin at their disposal .
3 Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time .
4 It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy .
5 He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy .
6 At Dry Drayton near Cambridge he had succeeded his father as patron and incumbent in 1808 , presented his own eldest son Samuel in 1829 , and himself for the second time in 1831 .
7 In his turn , Tran Van Hieu knelt to perform the same silent acts of obeisance as the older man , but after prostrating himself for the third time , he remained on his knees and to his children 's surprise began to pray aloud .
8 2 or 3 days at home in Oxfordshire is a luxury , even when he does get the chance to relax , he watches re-runs and readies himself for the next race .
9 Mahoney sucked in a deep breath , preparing himself for the next round of questions .
10 You feel him imagining himself as the last rock of culture and civilization being swept over by a wave of barbarism and Jews ( communism and commercialism ) , the saviour of more than the Constitution , the saviour of all that has been culture , the snob of the West .
11 Pressing himself against the last wagon he peered around the side for any sign of the guards .
12 Within Spanish art itself , on the other hand , the line is almost too simple : Goya was intensely aware of Velázquez , Picasso of both , but for Gironella the problem is not just that Picasso could be seen to have inserted himself into the next place in the sequence but that as a Mexican an unequivocal position in any such art-historical lineage is utterly unattainable .
13 No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next
14 Mills kicked himself in the 13th minute when he missed from two yards .
15 Speaking of himself in the second person and now deploying the phallic innuendo of tongue as well as sword , Vitelli presents masculine sexuality as spectacle , again demanding and needing the confirmation of his masculinity by an audience even as he conceives his masculinity in terms of spontaneous , self-generating desire and autonomous honour .
16 In 1724 , David Muir , Chamberlain to the Earl of Eglinton and a merchant in his own right , presented the Society with a silver arrow as the winner 's trophy for the papingo shoot and proceeded to win it himself in the first year .
17 It is very difficult to find a reason for that early forebear making a ‘ god ’ for himself in the first place , if it were not a result of the pressures of dependence originating from mammalian childhood .
18 It was squarely concluded that Hitler , through the over-estimation of his own strength and rejection of all overtures for peace from neutral states , ‘ bears himself in the last resort the blame for the retrograde development which has now set in ’ .
19 And yet in one way the later poet contradicts himself in the next stanza by following the traditional pastoral view that there is plentiful and ‘ luscious ’ fruit , ready to be picked and savoured .
20 He refers to himself in the third person quite frequently , almost as if his stage persona is a separate being .
21 ‘ The First Law of Sport : Look doubtfully upon the man who talks of himself in the third person ’ .
22 The horse hurt himself on the first jump and despite leading for much of the way round never really mastered the race .
23 Asked what he would feel like if , on Sunday night , he found himself on the 18th tee tied for the lead , he replied that it could only be a ‘ shattering experience ’ .
24 Eventually Don grappled with the critical section , and with a quick windmill of arms and legs was up and establishing himself on the next stance .
25 Roman answered the phone himself at the first ring , and Claudia 's heart turned over .
26 DEC president Bob Palmer , who was supposed to grace this week 's gathering with his presence — see front page — absented himself at the last minute .
27 The proto-JPL proved itself during the Second World War .
28 It took advantage of the country 's transferred preferential voting system by projecting itself as the second choice for the country 's growing number of Green voters .
29 This year Farnborough also has a skate scene emerging from Farnborough itself for the first time since about 1981 .
30 Readying itself for the next release of Solaris this week , SunPro , a division of Sun Microsystems Inc based in Mountain View , California , will ship its C Transition Pack on July 1 .
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