Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader may interpret the " flock " metaphorically , but by doing so he distances himself from the character . |
| 2 | Above all , however deeply he commits himself to a long-term end , it must never be allowed to outweigh ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 3 | Later he reproves himself for an impulse to be rude to a ‘ good auld guy ’ encountered during his terminal search for a bus , and we think of the prating ‘ good old man ’ Polonius . |
| 4 | Now he fancies himself as a great military strategist . |
| 5 | Now he finds himself in the same position as his predecessor — a relative conservative whose time is past . |
| 6 | Then she corrects herself with a laugh . |
| 7 | In this case we may say that the reflection shows itself through the mirror , and this illustrates the general principle that consciousness can be understood only by an examination of how it reveals itself through the material world . |
| 8 | Asked how he rates himself as a novelist , he replies : ‘ All I can say is that every single book has sold more than the last . |
| 9 | All too often moralists tend to regard a person 's moral life as the story of how he proves himself in the face of moral demands imposed on him by chance and circumstance . |
| 10 | When asked to sum up how he sees himself as a manager , Miller replies : ‘ As a player , maybe I was n't the best . |
| 11 | Its defence mechanism is not rapid reproduction like the greenfly , instead it surrounds itself with the familiar frothy blob of air bubbles that it forms as it spits out the sap it has taken from the plant — instead of spitting it back into the plant . |
| 12 | The past often appears ideal in retrospect , yet if one looks at it closely it reveals itself as a dangerous place where we laid mines to trap others , and others laid them to trap us . |