Example sentences of "with [pn reflx] in the " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
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 .
  Next page