Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we make ourselves the bar , if we suggest that self-determination is the right of every people on earth but the Germans , we risk creating resentments in Germany which could be quite as destabilising to the European order as reunification . |
| 2 | Another contributor said that if we asked ourselves the question : ‘ Do the agencies discriminate against West Belfast ? ’ , the answer had to be ‘ yes ’ . |
| 3 | We have enforced questionable criteria , appealed to divine authority and given ourselves the right to make our own interpretation of it . |
| 4 | The more fully we have developed ourselves the more cause for such gratitude we will have , and the more we understand the cosmos , particularly by grasping the true nature of detailed parts of it and their place in the total scheme , the more we will appreciate the sheer wonderfulness of it , and arrive at a kind of mystical adoration of it . |
| 5 | Outside but shadowing the DM , we deny ourselves the support of the system at times of currency fluctuation . |
| 6 | ‘ Outside , but shadowing the Deutschmark , we deny ourselves the support of the system at times of currency fluctuation . ’ |
| 7 | Suddenly we found ourselves the proud owners of three switchboards , two lines , thirteen phones and a miraculous fax ( ‘ Oooh , you must have to roll them up ever so small ’ ) machine . |
| 8 | And if that child is sensitive and caring and does not wish to hurt or disappoint his parents , perhaps he may even enter the medical profession and spend years doing something he does not really want to do while denying himself the opportunity of fulfilling his life in the way he would have chosen . |
| 9 | He fixed his eyes on the prophecy with fresh deliberation , denying himself the comfort of blinking to be certain he missed nothing . |
| 10 | Duncan 's account is , in fact , a not unsympathetic one of Eliot punishing himself , denying himself the small pleasures or luxuries which someone of his wealth and distinction could have enjoyed : " He always took his wine flavoured with guilt " . |
| 11 | Then his face contorted in pain , and she knew instinctively with infinite relief that it was the face of a man reluctantly denying himself the sexual release he patently craved by wielding a superhuman control . |
| 12 | He then went on-to become a valuable back-up member of the squad that took Palace to promotion in 1989 and , after a useful spell on loan with Hull City in midwinter , returned to claim the left-back position for the remainder of the season , gaining himself the Barclays Young Eagle of the Month award in March 1990 , sharing in some excellent 1st Division results , the FA Cup semi-final victory over Liverpool and two Wembley appearances against Manchester United . |
| 13 | Sheffield United 's Dave Bassett is the latest to find himself the subject of a police inquiry after being reported by the gentle , clean-mouthed souls who inhabit Chelsea 's stands for swearing . |
| 14 | I mean he has to take it seriously and occupy himself the effluvium which rises from it . |
| 15 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 16 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 17 | From being just another kid with nits in his head , the smallest in his class and the only one in the whole school whose skin was a swarthy brown , he suddenly found himself the most popular boy around . |
| 18 | A host of examples can be cited throughout the period of Stewart rule up to 1542 ; the fate of the mighty earls of Douglas at the hands of James II in the mid fifteenth century , the case , enshrined in ballad , of the over-confident border reiver Johnnie Armstrong , who suddenly found himself the victim of the utter ruthlessness of James V , tell the same story about how royal power was exercised in Scotland . |
| 19 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 20 | Instead of contested tithes , he found himself the guardian of a rich , varied , and passionately cultivated tradition for which the documentary evidence was fragmentary , but the local testimony entirely firm . |
| 21 | Nu found himself the ‘ treasurer without treasure ’ in his own words . |
| 22 | FOOTBALL fan Andy Meek went to watch his team York City in action yesterday — and found himself the match sponsor . |
| 23 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 24 | ‘ T is so no more ’ , that is , he can no longer consider himself the same person — he has become , at last , a human being ( line 36 ) , not a dreaming poet , and he can not go back to the earlier state . |
| 25 | In 1686 he became a London alderman , sitting for Broad Street ; but he discharged himself the following year , probably in anticipation of the purging of Anglicans from the bench . |
| 26 | Such as it was , it constituted a public place , and he could no longer guarantee himself the seclusion and privacy of the deserted churchyard . |
| 27 | The BBC again found itself the unwilling accomplice of the advertisers . |
| 28 | Almost from its first departmental production meeting Doctor Who found itself the target of several wielded axes . |
| 29 | But then , on 12 October , It found itself the target of a takeover . |
| 30 | Secondly , their eyes are on eternal truth , of which each party deems itself the sole defender . |