Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My companion took this opportunity to hide himself in his papers . |
| 2 | Something tells me he wo n't pass up this opportunity to establish himself as an international . |
| 3 | IBM is usually pretty forthcoming about the markets that it foresees for its products , but in this case limits itself to saying that it will appeal to professionals who would prefer ‘ easy-to-remember voice commands ’ to complicated keystrokes or mouse movements . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , as was earlier on , central government has led the attacks , it 's led the attacks through Sheehey right the way through , and we were supportive of our police then , I think not only of this county , but of all counties , and all county police forces said the same , and we will support our police force , and certainly this budget recommends itself to that . |
| 5 | ‘ There would need to be an awful lot of call-offs before the five players untried at this level found themselves on the field at the same time , though , ’ said the coach . |
| 6 | A cowardly vacillation , this hesitation to commit themselves to being myth . |
| 7 | In Germany , workplace representatives in this industry see themselves as part of the administrative framework for the smooth conduct of industrial relations and work within given administrative and legal constraints . |
| 8 | Good luck to all those , and there are dozens , who this spring find themselves beyond the dressing-room doors . |
| 9 | This chapter confines itself to the intangibles . |
| 10 | The remainder of this chapter concerns itself with these two outer layers . |
| 11 | Indeed in Cehave NV v Bremer Handelgesellschaft [ 1976 ] QB 44 , the Court of Appeal considered that it was the intention to re-state the pre-existing sales law and that this intention translated itself into a canon of statutory interpretation . |
| 12 | This parasite attaches itself to the mouths of fishes , sea-squirts , etc. 65 . |
| 13 | One thrust of this revolt displayed itself in a widespread attachment to the established church of the pre-1625 period , with its more relaxed doctrinal approach that was able to accommodate the beliefs of Richard Hooker as well as those of the compilers of the Lambeth Articles ; the other took the form of the ‘ left-wing Arminianism ’ of radical groups such as the General Baptists and Quakers , who rejected the rigidities of predestination in favour of the belief that all could attain salvation , and who , it is argued , won much popular support as a consequence . |
| 14 | This influence manifests itself in melodic shapes ( largely pentatonic falling patterns , but , unlike , say , Chicago blues , also lyrical , sustained , long-breathed ) ; vocal timbre ( rich , open-throated , sensuous ) ; and the use of melisma . |
| 15 | In fact , the war gave him a new sombreness of attitude to match his stark experience of the " essential problems of life " ; and inevitably this sombreness communicated itself to his continued thinking about the problems of tragedy . |
| 16 | The two rocks are different in chemical composition , and this difference manifests itself in a number of intriguing ways ; ways which a fair part of this book will be devoted to exploring . |
| 17 | But when I rejected everything of this sort to set myself to one purpose , my soul was absorbed with love for my Maker . |
| 18 | This distinction manifests itself in the fact that the " see that " paraphrase fits the second sentence very well but is very awkward for the first . |
| 19 | What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness , a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre . |
| 20 | For a while , the most successful pop groups had the power to shift mass consciousness to an unprecedented degree and this confidence expressed itself in a plethora of new sexualities brought into the public eye , offered up for public consumption and then put into practice in people 's lives . |
| 21 | It is sufficient at this point to remind ourselves of Bernard Rollin 's argument , in defence of Rawls , that the interests of infants , imbeciles , and animals , will be included in the scope of those of the moral agent with moral personality . |
| 22 | Even the youngest children , who were three years old , were well aware of the fact that appearance and reality were conflicting , but how did this knowledge reveal itself in their judgements about the distinction ? |
| 23 | ‘ That 's the one , me boy , and it has this morning presented itself in four mess-tins . |
| 24 | This kingdom spread itself over Scotland north of the Forth and Clyde and for a time seems to have included Orkney . |
| 25 | Labour will try this week to portray itself as the party of hope , with policies on education , training and health . |
| 26 | It is most important that arts teachers see themselves first and foremost as teachers and only after carrying out their duties in this respect to see themselves as artists . |
| 27 | Chapter 7.3 examines the colonial impact upon agriculture , and this example confines itself to a very brief exploration of the colonial experience . |
| 28 | This belief shows itself in action : e.g. in the cure of the paralysed man ( Mark 2:1–12 ) . |
| 29 | Under the rule of the Incas this inertia expressed itself in the stagnation of commerce … in the lack of vitality and the absence of originality in the arts , in dogmatism in science , and in the rareness of even the simplest inventions . |
| 30 | One day the screw came up and told me I had a visit down in the solicitor 's ; I went down and this man presented himself as a court welfare officer . |