Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | generally erm and if we 're talking about the strategy we 've got ta sort of er sort out for ourselves whether we think the strategy of getting rid of the local tyrants and the evil gentry is the wa right way to actually achieve that the aims of getting rid of warlords . |
| 2 | He found out himself because he read the note Barbara asked him to deliver to you . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , each Neapolitan is out for himself but he recognises the need to live as harmoniously as possible with everyone else . ’ |
| 4 | He quickly made a name for himself when he reversed the works lorry into a workshop wall and was banned from driving the Company vehicles until after he could drive properly . |
| 5 | He had the best for himself and he wanted the best for his Mollie . |
| 6 | Knocking On The Dour Matthew Parris looks at parliamentary candidates who make a rosette-coloured spectacle of themselves as they learn the art of doorstep canvassing |
| 7 | Dr Glasser argues that unconditional acceptance is an illusion simply because we have to interact with other people who are just like ourselves and who share the same primary needs . |
| 8 | We we see Jim , we decide amongst ourselves whether we have the need , and I think I mean I I believe we do anyhow . |
| 9 | He was looking pleased with himself as he dragged the table to the side of the room to make space to work in . |
| 10 | It was not quite what she envisaged for herself but it had the advantage of being cheap and it went some way towards satisfying Grace , who was convinced that London was a den of iniquity waiting to swallow up her unsuspecting daughter . |
| 11 | In the progress of the Mirror the meditations ( which this text also calls contemplation ) on the Passion are one part of the process by which man sees God in himself since it activates the trinitarian structure of the soul and is the means by which the Incarnation is realised and man becomes holy . |
| 12 | It was a whole diverting little field in itself and I approached the cow with interest . |
| 13 | That we can , must , involve the reader , make the reader participate in the feeling we are trying to represent ; and we learn , too , that there are some subjects , like this one , so powerful in themselves that they require the simplest narration when it is time to take the reader to the climax . |
| 14 | Millett writes of the individuality and ego that women can discover in themselves once they recognise the effects of their patriarchal socialisation . |
| 15 | It had been enough to set Freddie 's agile mind working , and he grinned expectantly to himself as he heard the watchman 's voice . |
| 16 | A loud knocking on the wicket-gate made Jack start and he muttered to himself as he left the office and walked across the cobbled yard . |
| 17 | ‘ But I ca n't help ‘ fretting ’ about it , ’ Mungo said to himself as he re-crossed the yard . |
| 18 | He smiled smugly to himself as he raised the bet by fifty pounds . |
| 19 | Even the weather 's become a bloody coalition , George grumbled to himself as he watched the politicians edging in front of the TV cameras and the civil servants edging away . |
| 20 | At the moment the crafty totter had other , more profitable things to think about and he whistled to himself as he gave the cabinet yet another coat of wax . |
| 21 | He nodded to himself as he climbed the stairs , wondering what he 'd helped with . |
| 22 | The visiting General smiles to himself as he watches the patrol reacting to an imaginary enemy ambush . |
| 23 | Mother — another sandy person , with pretty green eyes — would nod to herself when she heard the phrase , as if in recognition , and smile a little secret smile . |
| 24 | She was remembering how this M. Apéritif looked at her — ; the French , especially d'un certain âge , were such mooncalves when it came to flirting , rolling eyes and winking shamelessly ; she was in consequence smiling to herself when she reached the hall . |
| 25 | She alighted from the train at East 74th Street and whistled softly to herself as she walked the two hundred yards down 72nd Street from the subway to her ground-floor bachelor flat . |
| 26 | Carefully stripping off her clothes so as not to jar her ankle , she sat before the fire , softly humming to herself as she savoured the delight of clean skin . |
| 27 | She was unusually silent , but the group of scientists at the tables could hear her muttering to herself as she punished the books at the end of one of the bays . |
| 28 | Carrie sighed to herself as she threw the soiled towelling napkin in an enamel bucket at her feet and placed the dean and folded napkin under the baby 's bottom . |
| 29 | Why not come out arid say it in this day and age , she muttered to herself as she dialled the number . |
| 30 | The beetles immediately started running around in circles chalking the ground , and falling over themselves as they stretched the tape measure across from one side of the circle to the other . |