Example sentences of "of [pn reflx] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet whether we think of ourselves as secularist or as religious , we can not be absolutely certain in such a way that our certainty can not be challenged by other people . |
| 2 | Sharing our experiences allowed parts of ourselves to surface which were both painful and joyous . |
| 3 | ‘ We all have to think of ourselves from time to time , do n't we ? ’ |
| 4 | There is today a growing awareness of ourselves in relation to our environment . |
| 5 | In an ideal world , If we all became truly aware of ourselves in relation to others , there would be no need for greed or violence — but we are still far from our ideal world . |
| 6 | If he were a safety representative on a platform and , without explanation , he were transferred to another platform run by the same operator or service company , how would an industrial tribunal or any other organisation be able to prove that the reason for his transfer was that he was making a nuisance of himself over safety matters ? |
| 7 | Not only did it concur with Constantine 's presentation of himself as Messiah . |
| 8 | However , where any person holds proxies requiring him to vote for the appointment of himself as trustee , he may use those proxies and vote accordingly ( r 8.6(1) ) . |
| 9 | The dedication to Sir Hans Sloane ( see p. 27 ) was equally a dedication of himself to botany and horticulture . |
| 10 | When the prince heard the story , over a conference table littered with notes , despatches and letters , he first opened eyes and mouth wide with shock and disbelief , and cried : ‘ Never say so ! ’ and then as suddenly laughed aloud , crowing : ‘ A judgment ! ’ , looking , for once , a year or so less than his age and capable of mischief ; and then he looked very grave indeed , and sat staring moodily at his table-full of papers , and said , dismayed : ‘ The king will be out of himself with anger . |
| 11 | He kept a photograph of himself on horseback in full dress uniform in the back of the shop . |
| 12 | He was sorry he had made a fool of himself by ringing . |
| 13 | He claimed to have been at the Munich Olympics in 1972 while serving with the US Army , and seemed particularly proud of a photograph of himself in officer 's uniform ( without apparently realising that the insignia were incorrect ) . |
| 14 | The safety diver had clambered onto the iceberg , risking a tear in his suit and the possibility of tipping the iceberg over on top of himself in order to signal his presence in the deepening gloom . |
| 15 | He would n't have minded the meanness of only allowing one glass each , if it had n't been that the reception was so timed as to prevent that vital half-hour in the pub before closing time , which was so much a part of the necessary wind-down from giving of himself in performance . |
| 16 | Morrissey 's wounded narcissism is both intolerable and intolerant : driven by an instinctive disgust , he makes a meal out of himself in protest against the mealy-mouthed , constructs a grandeur out of swollen self-pity . |
| 17 | It was awful making such a fool of himself in front of Nutty . |
| 18 | This type of subsoil is not difficult of itself to work , but in rainy weather it breaks down easily , and so deep excavations could be very troublesome indeed . |
| 19 | I was sorry that he went to the West Riding after only two terms , although this made me stand on my own feet quickly , which was of itself of value . |
| 20 | More , the fact that this being , Homo sapiens , is from the moment of birth aware of itself in relation to others , and experiences and defines itself in such a relational mode , suggests the universal , pre-cultural basis of a relational concept that appears to occur in one form or another in all human cultural systems : the complementarity of Self and Other ; Us and Them . |
| 21 | To see yourself in this way is a representation of the child 's move into historical time , one of the places where vision establishes the child 's understanding of herself as part of the world . |
| 22 | The USSR 's commitment to Communism 's expansion and triumph seems to co-exist with a psychology of threat and a view of herself as victim . |
| 23 | Her heart was touched by what the duchess had offered her and by what had been asked of herself in return . |
| 24 | He had a knack of making her feel like that , she realised — somehow vulnerable , excessively aware of herself in relation to him . |
| 25 | you feel exposed/that you might make a fool of yourself in front of others |
| 26 | It did n't matter if you made a fool of yourself in front of strangers — he saw that now . |
| 27 | You fire up the engine on the starter button and the mechanic waves you out into the pit lane and you realize that the overall purpose of a racing car 's design is that you should feel a pure sense of yourself in propulsion . |
| 28 | Awareness of your surroundings and of yourself in relation to those surroundings . |
| 29 | The civil servants of enlightened despotism had little conception of systematically using institutional power against the aristocracy ; bureaucrats thought of themselves as government servants , not as combatants in a class struggle . |
| 30 | The trainer also has the responsibility to convey to the trainees that they must not think of themselves as problem solvers , but only as facilitators . |