Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inland , you can get close to the countryside with a few days on a farm or perhaps pamper yourself with a luxury hotel . |
| 2 | He was a great man and I never ceased to admire him , either discussing critically the quality of a poem or composition , analysing the contents or production of a programme , dealing with the political aspects of CBC policy from Head Office or just enjoying himself in a piano duet with Arthur Benjamin . |
| 3 | This behavioural plasticity and mental agility , optimized as always in the young , began sooner or later to express itself in a new mode of subsistence , namely , hunting . |
| 4 | Here , as elsewhere , there are difficult questions to be answered : whether membership of a society should involve a positive duty to take care of one 's body for the general social good , either to avoid becoming a burden on other members of the community or even to preserve oneself as a positive contributor to that community . |
| 5 | We 'd started with a lobster bisque that was almost certainly Sainsbury 's , but since Sainsbury 's almost certainly make the finest lobster bisque that ever found itself in a can , there can be no complaint . |
| 6 | From that small beginning I noted down quotations that I found meaningful , prayers that I found helpful to my spiritual life , occasionally writing a prayer that almost wrote itself after a meditation . |
| 7 | He could n't have picked a better place : laid to rest in Père Lachaise alongside such genuine nineteenth-century bohos as Gérard de Nerval , who took his pet lobster for walks in the Palais Royal and eventually hanged himself with a piece of string he insisted was the Queen of Sheba 's garter . |
| 8 | This model provided a way of visualizing the pattern of morphogenetic systems over the earth 's surface during the Cainozoic and so lent itself to a clear way of integrating contemporary world zones with those of the past when ice sheets were non-existent or much less extensive . |
| 9 | In relation to the Irish worker , he feels himself a member of the ruling nation and so turns himself into a tool of the aristocrats and capitalists of his country against Ireland , thus strengthening their domination over himself . |
| 10 | Weber differed , however , in incorporating rather more of the Marxist analysis into his own theory , in so far as he recognized social classes — and more generally , various ‘ constellations of interest ’ in the economic sphere as important bases of domination , in his intense preoccupation with the growth of bureaucratic domination , and in the concentration of his analysis upon the different ways in which domination can make claims to ‘ legitimacy ’ and so constitute itself as a moral authority . |
| 11 | The influence of Community law is steadily expanding , so that each member State is increasingly having to adjust its thinking to accommodate principles and rules derived from other legal systems within the Community and thus to acclimatize itself to a less nationalistic approach to law . |
| 12 | Stephenson , by now thirty-three , had joined Aston Villa in 1911 and soon established himself as a powerful forward . |
| 13 | Wood shattered as Bodie 's shot narrowly missed him , penetrating the shed and finally expending itself on a brick wall . |
| 14 | Routinely , you are most likely to need to lift the dog up into your car , however , rather than encouraging it to jump up and possibly injure itself as a result . |
| 15 | In June 1937 Reagan took up residence in Hollywood and quickly established himself as a promising film actor , performing in eight films in his first eleven months and going on to make more than fifty films altogether . |
| 16 | He is pictured on the right receiving gift vouchers which he spent on household items and also treated himself to a new pair of binoculars for his bird watching hobby . |
| 17 | They use delinquent criteria in order to distance themselves as far as possible from conventional ones , and hence insulate themselves from a sense of failure . |
| 18 | 1 The chief characteristic of society is that it is " open " and made up of many interests that freely and automatically form themselves into a whole variety of groups . |
| 19 | But having done so , they go on to argue that experiences , being essentially mental , can not be properly ascribed to non-mental subjects , and immediately expose themselves to a question about the true identity of their bearers and the criteria under which experiences can be ascribed to them . |
| 20 | What they could find room to laugh at , however , was the way in which respectable England could ignore the realities of slum life for so many years , while showering the Empire with the benefits of Christianity and imperial wars , and then get itself into a respectable lather in such a short time about a few broken heads among rough lads . |
| 21 | Walking 's real difficult now , and I have to stop every now and then to steady myself against a wall or a lamppost . |
| 22 | That the real Peter Lawton killed six people and then killed himself on a motorbike less than two weeks ago ? |
| 23 | A shop owner is believed to have murdered his wife and then killed himself in a double shooting . |
| 24 | The police claimed she had escaped and then hanged herself from a tree . |
| 25 | You need one of those slave-driving old studio bosses if you ask me , not a sensitive graduate who went into movies because he liked the clouds in Antonioni and then turned himself into a nouvelle vague Deutscher all hot for Truthspiel . |
| 26 | The convicted Harley Steet rapist again misused his trust , drugging and then forcing himself upon a woman whose baby he had delivered . |
| 27 | It got to the stage where we thought we were going to have to pull the idea of actually demonstrating skiing , but I follow if you 're writing about skiing , you at least had to show the difficulty of putting the boots on , and putting the skis on and side-stepping up the hill , and then finding yourself in a snow-plough position , and then turning around . |
| 28 | Very often a student creates his first phrase and then finds himself at a loss . |
| 29 | In the final stages of the peace-making at Utrecht in 1713 the representatives of the different powers avoided many of the difficulties and delays which had marked earlier such conferences by entering the meeting-place in the town hall pêle-mêle ( i.e. in no particular order ) and then seating themselves at a round table which had no head . |
| 30 | The United States was not a signatory in the CENTO arrangement , but it became involved in CENTO planning and some of its military committees and virtually committed itself to a military response to an attack on any of its members . |