Example sentences of "of [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the previous chapter shows , the development officers were rarely involved at all with those clients if they were in the action samples ; since in no real sense could they be said to have had the opportunity of availing themselves of the action project , they are omitted ( in both action and control samples ) from most of the following analysis . |
| 2 | Wally was awarded the job for his bravery in receiving extensive brain surgery after years of concussing himself on the crossbar . |
| 3 | Breakfast and lunch is usually a question of helping yourself in the kitchen . |
| 4 | All the other times were just a way of reminding myself of the realities and provoking you at the same time . |
| 5 | It is often possible , then , to understand and so overcome spelling errors , once you understand why you are making an error and can work out a way of reminding yourself of the correct form . |
| 6 | In Kingsley 's social novels particularly , the diseases of the poor have a way of transmitting themselves to the other nation by way of their omissions — neglected ponds or the products of tailors ’ sweat-shops . |
| 7 | Mr Battleaxe is in danger of lancing himself in the foot : in the sentence quoted from my letter , he inserts the word ‘ sic ’ — inside curved brackets . |
| 8 | Beware of over-committing yourself to the foot sweep . |
| 9 | In contrast , if you are white , and unless you actually subscribe to racist arguments , you will want to find ways of dissociating yourself from the views expressed here . |
| 10 | Most British people and publications I am acquainted with are quite proud of their command of the English language and engage in quite a lot of patting themselves on the back . |
| 11 | On the other side , men of letters have so few opportunities of applying themselves to the general practice that the rules they lay down , however plausible they may seem in the closet , would often ruin the honest gardener who should venture to follow them . |
| 12 | I laughed , and she said , ‘ Laughing is a way of protecting yourself from the truth . ’ |
| 13 | It 's changed partly because Stalin 's er strategy in China has been shown to be a disaster and Stalin is trying to cover his tracks and most effective way of protecting himself against the criticism and the unpopularity which is likely to come from the failure is by insisting that the strategy was right all along and the revolution is about to triumph . |
| 14 | ONE type of wild potato has developed a novel way of protecting itself from the ravages of aphids — by producing the chemical that aphids themselves use as an alarm signal . |
| 15 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 16 | If you are well practised in a careful approach , having learned the art of blending yourself into the background and moving with the silence and stealth of a hungry alley-cat , then you will soon be close enough to identify them as chub . |
| 17 | And the effect for Locke is this , and again I , I quote the legislative being only a fiduciary power , that is to say a power based on trust a fiduciary power to act for certain ends , there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust imposed in them and thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of every body even if their legislators whenever they shall be so foolish or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject . |
| 18 | However , he appreciated the cathartic nature of expressing himself through the written word . |
| 19 | But senior party figures will privately be far from unhappy ; a Labour victory would have destroyed their long-term goal of establishing themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives . |
| 20 | But senior party figures privately will be far from unhappy ; a Labour victory would have destroyed their long-term goal of establishing themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives . |
| 21 | Government critics predicted that violence would now escalate , arguing that Fujimori had played into the hands of Sendero , which had long wished to provoke a military coup in the hope of establishing itself as the sole democratic force opposed to a repressive government . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , on the other side of the door he was impatiently eyeing , Karen and I were locked in a windowless room about five feet by three , with no possibility of escape short of flushing ourselves down the lavatory . |
| 23 | Admittedly , a hard-pressed politician could occasionally borrow a cadetship or other appointment from another director , promising to repay the loan in a future year , but the small size of the Indian official class meant that such a practice of burdening oneself for the future could be hazardous . |
| 24 | Let the wave carry him up and then sort of hurl himself off the top of it . |
| 25 | It follows from these conjectures that members of literate societies have the possibility of developing logical functions , of specialising in the ‘ truth functions ’ of language , and of extracting themselves from the embeddedness of everyday social life . |
| 26 | Yet the quicker they become local the greater the risk of degrading themselves to the styles and practices of their local rivals , losing the differences that account for their superiority . |
| 27 | BERNHARD LANGER , the co-organiser of the German Masters , had the enviable task of presenting himself with the £55,000 winner 's cheque here yesterday . |
| 28 | Part of Lewis 's discovery of himself as a writer was the discovery of a means of presenting himself to the reader . |
| 29 | I thought of presenting myself at the docks and saying that my pocket had been picked … but I lacked the impudence to carry it off . |
| 30 | Disguise is a matter of presenting oneself to the person deceived in an unexpected context . |