Example sentences of "and [noun] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specifically , it is to query the new received wisdom , that the alternative party to the Conservatives in British politics has only to take the consumerist road , and present itself as the protector of the individual against Big Business and Big Government . |
| 2 | I run to the bedroom , clutch the lump of hash from the bookshelf , and lock myself in the bathroom , turning the taps on . |
| 3 | That would be the best time to refinance with a fixed-rate mortgage and lock oneself into the German virtuous circle of medium-paced growth , low inflation and minimal home loan costs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Steel your heart , gird up your vitals and content yourself with the company of bold fellows like Kelly and myself … ’ |
| 6 | The conversation between the four of them ranged from the trial and Venice itself to the difficulties besetting the people who were trying to build a better , more humane world than the old one on the wreckage left by the war . |
| 7 | During this period the Board has also had to find its feet , build up its staff resources to the planned level and concern itself with the production of some weighty discussion documents . |
| 8 | Criticism , he argued , should be opposed to this kind of scholarship , and concern itself with the specifically literary properties of texts . |
| 9 | If it travelled up into the skull it might ricochet off the skull table and bed itself in the bone . |
| 10 | So you might as well go to the information office in San Marco and book yourself on the next flight out of here . |
| 11 | Kick hard with your feet and position yourself by the rear quarter of the board . |