Example sentences of "of [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , we have mental activity which enables us , second-by-second , to conceive of ourselves as mental entities . |
| 2 | It also makes the point that our sexuality is squeezed arbitrarily into narrow forms , forcing us to suppress many elements of ourselves at great Shobana Jeyasingh is impressive both as a performer . |
| 3 | In a review essay written two years before ‘ Pornography and Obscenity ’ , Lawrence attacks the way we have ( allegedly ) come to think of ourselves in modern civilization . |
| 4 | Traditional mytho-history had simply polarized the time-bound , mortal existence of ourselves in This World of Imperfection against the timeless , immortal perfection of The Other World of . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What did it matter to her if Silas made an idiot of himself over this woman ? |
| 7 | She knew , of course , that men were driven by lusts of the flesh , desires that they satisfied with little or no regard for the females they wanted , but , strangely enough , she would not have considered fitzAlan to be a man to lose control of himself for that reason . |
| 8 | When he spoke of himself with evident authority as ‘ the senior Vietnam veteran on active duty ’ you could read the subtext as if it was in neon : if I am prepared to give my commander-in-chief unquestioned respect , so should you . |
| 9 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 10 | 1859 — 1919 : ‘ They [ Joseph 's contemporaries ] tested every man 's views by his actions , by his carriage of himself on all sorts of occasions . |
| 11 | Wittek suggests that Bayezid I was aware of the criticisms of himself on religious grounds and that he sought investiture as Sultan of Rum , a title he already possessed in fact , from the Abbasid caliph in Cairo because he felt the need for a religious sanction for his regime . |
| 12 | As he says of himself at that juncture in his career , his quitting in Monaco was ‘ the climax to a situation which had existed all year , stemming … basically from a lack of interest and enthusiasm ’ . |
| 13 | Not only has the right hon. Gentleman made an idiot of himself by that intervention , but he has achieved the interesting feat of misquoting himself . |
| 14 | The Miller , in his tale , re-emerges in the target figure that superficially seems meant to represent the Reeve ; the Reeve then retrospectively identifies himself with a trickster and target figure : the trickster who makes a fool of the character supposed to represent him but who is subsequently made a fool of himself from another quarter . |
| 15 | He left the cardboard box on top of his wardrobe , where it remained until 1973 , when he cleared away every trace of himself from 29 Champney Road . |
| 16 | ‘ Incredible how a man of such undoubted physical courage can be so unsure of himself in other ways . ’ |
| 17 | Karol Wojtyla was not a ‘ liberal ’ in any Western sense , though he too may briefly have thought of himself in such terms in student days . |
| 18 | He fed her this first taste of himself in absolute confidence that she would accept it , and an anguished sound came from deep in Maria 's throat as she accommodated him , mindlessly obedient to the command of his mouth . |
| 19 | For years , he has been producing images of himself in different guises : from ancient Roman busts to self-portraits done in the styles of famous artists . |
| 20 | Except that ( and this is decisive in regard to the situation of the one-idea painter ) his format was private — almost , one might say , the framework of another self , or of himself in another form — and unavailable to others . |
| 21 | Mulvey combined this Freudian explanation of pleasure in looking with the theory of the mirror stage in the work of Jacques Lacan , in which the child 's first recognition of itself in the mirror is called a misrecognition , because what the child sees in the mirror is an idealised whole and rounded image at odds with the child 's diffuse bodily experience of itself at that stage in development — it can not yet control its movements , let alone its environment . |
| 22 | An interesting property is the ability of the hologram to project well out in front of itself into free space . |
| 23 | When , in any group of persons , the ego is subjected to such invidious versions of itself through social beliefs , ideology and tradition , the effect is bound to be pernicious . |
| 24 | His lips continued to hold her captive , weaving some dark spell around her that seduced her senses and lured her into sharing a virgin part of herself with this man … this man , with whom , of all the men she had ever met , she wanted least to share these secrets of herself . |
| 25 | Her series of UNTITLED FILM STILLS ( pictures of herself in imaginary movie scenarios ) tapped a reservoir of imagery of unexpected power and subtlety . |
| 26 | She was still a little unsure of herself in American society . |
| 27 | In Romans 12:3 Paul says , ‘ For by the grace given me I say to every one of you : Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought , but rather think of yourself with sober judgment , in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Think of yourself as old model ? ’ |
| 29 | In the meantime , until this can be achieved , if you are worried that your parent is not receiving proper medical attention you should start to make a polite nuisance of yourself by frequent visits to the surgery to impress upon the doctor the fact that you consider there is real cause for concern about the state of her health and ask if he could arrange for a ‘ second opinion ’ . |
| 30 | He became particularly interested in how they managed to combine this well-organized and criminal activity with an image of themselves as law-abiding citizens . |