Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ted puffed energetically at his , uncertain yet whether to congratulate himself on being parked up here with this very attractive young girl , or to commiserate with himself for his failure to make more than token progress . |
| 2 | This resulted in his becoming more distressed and unable to cope with either his work or looking after himself at home . |
| 3 | When teachers , matrons , the housemistress and finally the headmistress all started to show some concern and more disapproval at my unco-operative ( anorexic ) behaviour , I refused to answer their questions , or even to talk to them at all , and during the course of their homilies I merely stared out of the window or smiled to myself in a superior , scornful sort of way . |
| 4 | All people at work are covered by the Order , whether they are employed by others , are in a managerial capacity , or work for themselves without employing others . |
| 5 | In writing for others they will learn that writing for a public audience requires more care to be taken with the finished product than writing for oneself as an aid to memory . |
| 6 | At eighteen she is doing A levels at college and wants to train as an aromatherapist , because she feels that looking after yourself with massage and perfume can make you feel good about yourself . |
| 7 | Auguste smiled weakly , than laughed at himself for his vanity . |
| 8 | It started in the middle of something , something hollow and highly polished that fed into itself in ever-increasing rounds . |
| 9 | Englishmen and Scotsmen , as Anthony King observed , have tended not to think like Europeans nor to think of themselves as Europeans . |
| 10 | According to Lovins , ‘ the equipment more than pays for itself by costing less to maintain ’ . |
| 11 | But it has more than paid for itself in improved factory efficiency , said Bob Pruitt , operations manager of Thatcher Tubes , Florence — part of Courtaulds Packaging . |
| 12 | Rose never interested in clothes before , tried the lot on and beamed at herself in the long mirror . |
| 13 | Dynamics of survival within the NMGC must be related to the role which the organisation has defined and redefined for itself in the light of a changing understanding of marital problems over time and in relation to the work of other agencies . |
| 14 | Sir Henry agreed to help in this way , and to go by himself to the Stapletons that evening . |
| 15 | Teversham was unnerved by the nearness of the following Land Rover and irritated with himself for missing an elementary point . |
| 16 | There I found the author of Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick sipping mineral water , tapping a hand-drum and singing to himself in 17th-century verse . |
| 17 | The maids are lovely to behold , combing their long tresses and gazing at themselves in hand-mirrors , while singing with exquisite sweetness on a rock near the water 's edge . |
| 18 | They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank . |
| 19 | And the thing growled and howled to itself in the centre of its blind struggle . |
| 20 | Then she gets in the back bedroom , we got a mirror at the back there what was took off one the dressing tables , and she sits and looks at herself in there and she keeps going like that |
| 21 | Carrefour sat on a low wall that stretched out from the side of a building , leaning his back against the building 's wall and tootling to himself on a child 's flute . |
| 22 | The temple bells were clanging to their climax as Ramlal hurried past the door , clutching his precious document , and laughing to himself at the thought that the God had got nothing from him at all . |
| 23 | Piggy believed that he had overcome his disabilities and looked at himself in a very different way from the other boys . |
| 24 | He shook his head and clucked to himself like the White Rabbit in Alice . |
| 25 | I do n't like me voice , I 'm not liking it at all and I think that 's what putting me off on taping it and listening to myself after , I do n't , I like , I like |
| 26 | He blinked , and came to himself with a start . |
| 27 | So at last Mary went out into the garden , and played by herself under a tree . |
| 28 | Henry himself never had anything interesting to do ) , he squeezed close to the wall and coughed to himself in an extra drab way . |
| 29 | ‘ To heaven , of course , ’ said Dotty tartly , seizing an enormous wooden spoon and advancing upon an iron saucepan which had been rumbling and grumbling to itself throughout the conversation . |
| 30 | Get up and look at yourselves in the mirror . |