Example sentences of "[adj] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | get it right ourselves |
| 2 | to joke and get half-screwed ourselves . |
| 3 | ‘ Our process for generating electricity is environmentally friendly , but as a company deeply concerned about the environment we must take action to ensure we are not guilty ourselves , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Otherwise , if he escapes now , he can tell the police about us and stay free himself . ’ |
| 5 | It is hoped that they will keep the client in power , but today , as in Stalin 's day , additional measures are thought necessary to guarantee that the client remains reliable himself . |
| 6 | According to Mikoian himself , the USSR insisted that the Cubans buy Soviet goods if they wanted Moscow to continue purchasing their sugar , and adamantly refused to pay more than the world market price for Cuban produce ( Mikoian in Cuba ( Crosscurrents press , New York , 1960 ) , in Boughton : 1974 , p. 450 ) . |
| 7 | But the literal Levi is a writer who has his own way of interesting himself in the contrasts which have been attributed to Babel . |
| 8 | Feeling quite ill and willing himself not to look down , he stretched up and found that he could just reach the circular window . |
| 9 | This part of the ‘ window ’ can be used for long-range scrying ; a character looking into it and willing himself to see a far-distant scene can see into an elliptical area bounded by Middenheim to the north , Nuln to the south , some 25 miles west of Altdorf , and to around 100 miles east along the River Talabec out of Altdorf . |
| 10 | Houghton convinced himself he was searching so avidly for the match that he was almost willing himself to find it . |
| 11 | In Masterson v. Holden it was held that the conduct was insulting because the magistrates might properly have taken the view that such objectionable conduct in a public street may well be regarded as insulting in that it suggests to a witness that he or she is somebody who would find such conduct in public acceptable himself or herself . |
| 12 | One comes across a man who resigned his post because of the grief occasioned by the death of a son ; or another who , from disappointed expectations , turned to drugs and thereby unfitted himself for the offices he coveted . |
| 13 | I 've embarrassed her , and looked away , feeling surprisingly embarrassed himself . |
| 14 | What was more , he considered it his duty , not only to pray in public himself , but to induce his friends to join him , often at inconvenient times and in conspicuous places . |
| 15 | He has n't even the decency to announce it public himself . |
| 16 | Charley was high himself by then . |
| 17 | Martin Shaw , the Derby director who represents his club on the League management board , said : ‘ The existing rules allow for flexibility in dealing with a case where the player clearly has done nothing wrong himself . ’ |
| 18 | If he recognises the word as wrong himself , then it is n't serious . |
| 19 | Vodafone Group Plc said yesterday it is to encourage the setting up of retail outlets that will offer a full range of cellular phones and after-sales service : it is not allowed to sell direct itself , but will jointly fund refurbishment and shopfitting of high street outlets with service providers and hopes to have 170 stores operating across the country by summer next year ; it looks to spend £10m over two years and aims for a shop on every major UK high street and up to 25 within the M25 London orbital motorway . |
| 20 | A figure in brown detached itself from the shadows , reached into the bin with a look of disgust on his face , and pocketed the crumpled paper without reading it . |
| 21 | From right beside Lawton something huge detached itself from the shadows . |
| 22 | UNCED itself , however , was launched as a result of a UN General Assembly resolution passed in December 1989 [ see p. 37433 ] , which referred back to the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development chaired by the then Norwegian Prime Minister , Gro Harlem Brundtland [ see pp. 35227-29 ] . |
| 23 | UNCED itself , however , was launched as a result of a UN General Assembly resolution passed in December 1989 . |
| 24 | The point here is that if cultural modernity is to be understood in terms of the separation and even the transcendence or ‘ aura ’ of aesthetic realism , then post-modernity would be a matter of transgression of the boundaries that separate the aesthetic from other cultural practices and from the social itself . |
| 25 | The full autonomy , and self-referentiality of the aesthetic sphere , on this account , is matched by the full autonomization of the social itself . |
| 26 | They used a saline solution as the test flavour and gave different groups of subjects pre-exposure either to saline itself or to some other flavour or flavours . |
| 27 | It is evident that only pre-exposure to saline itself produced latent inhibition and that an aversion was established perfectly readily after all other conditions of pre-exposure . |
| 28 | The key assumption here remains , of course , that the identity of an ontological existent , or , more accurately , its ontological individuality , depends upon all of this existent 's properties , and hence that if any of them were different from what they happen to be , the existent itself would be different . |
| 29 | ( 1 ) As he was obliged to do , the charging officer ( at a time when the Director was already interesting herself in the matter ) had told the applicant that he was not obliged to say anything ; yet only two weeks later the Serious Fraud Office was warning the applicant that he was going to be interviewed under compulsory powers ; and it was not much longer still before the office formally put him on notice that he would be asked questions which he would be compelled to answer on pain of punishment . |
| 30 | She was different herself , looking back on it : she 'd lost a certain naturalness , she did n't feel vivacious . |