Example sentences of "with [pn reflx] in the " in BNC.
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1 | They are not brethren , they are not underlings ; they are other nations , caught with ourselves in the net of life and time , fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth . |
2 | Clearly , out of sorts with himself in the wet and windy conditions which he hated , he smashed his racquet on the ground on no less than eight occasions . |
3 | ( Poole 's recollection is that John had made the piece earlier , with himself in the role danced by Lionel Luyt , but there is no record of this . |
4 | When he did let it out , he did so in a rather peculiar fashion , linking it to a quarrel with Mauve and casting it in a dramatic mode , with himself in the first and then third person . |
5 | General Galtieri 's release underlines the fact that the Argentine armed forces may have learned nothing and forgotten nothing , but , by dint of constant pressure on Argentina 's elected leaders , they have moved closer to their goal of rewriting history with themselves in the role of hero . |
6 | When I asked him what those eminent shrinks did with themselves in the evenings he explained that they gathered in the hotel bar . |
7 | As sometimes happens with pianists of exceptional technical ability there can often be a sense in their playing that they are trying hard not to run away with themselves in the easy passages . |
8 | In a similar way , for homosexuals to organise as a group involves their coming to terms with themselves in the context of a society which has certain views as to what is " normal " and proper with respect to sexual behaviour . |