Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With an emotional frankness almost unique in pre-twentieth century philosophy , Pascal insists on his unhappiness and anxiety : ‘ We desire truth , and find within ourselves only uncertainty . |
| 2 | Once again we 're pleased to have the Olive Grove Studios all to ourselves this year . |
| 3 | We have surprised even ourselves this season , but there is a long way to go yet . ’ |
| 4 | It was grey daylight when they crossed the moat of the Château Franc and besides himself only Astorre , Nicholas saw , had tried to keep the iron back and square shoulders of duty . |
| 5 | Mr Enoch Powell asked himself only weeks before the riots erupted in the British cities in 1981 . |
| 6 | He had not allowed himself enough time for Fairfax . |
| 7 | What precisely he did with himself all day long she never could fathom , but he was not in her company above two hours or so each day . |
| 8 | That night , because he could see himself , Boy thought about himself all night long . |
| 9 | That Harald who won for himself all Denmark and Norway and made the Danes Christian " . |
| 10 | But although Gaunt 's defence of the royal prerogative , and particularly the royal right to choose ministers freely , was vigorous and effective , he drew upon himself much unpopularity . |
| 11 | But the one remained known as Willibrord ( despite an unimpeachable Roman allegiance ) , while the other called himself thereafter Boniface . |
| 12 | Anne : What about Mr Major has he actually done himself any good this week ? |
| 13 | ‘ He hanged himself yesterday evening . ’ |
| 14 | He drove the horsebox himself yesterday morning back to his base at Brandsby in North Yorkshire . |
| 15 | However , had the hiccup in the company 's meteoric rise to the top of the fine chemicals tree come a little sooner Mr Lines would probably have saved himself around £100,000 the personal cost of founding three academic chairs at the Poly . |
| 16 | First Nixon purged them to get the spotlight off himself then Ford had a go and Carter ran his own massacree . |
| 17 | For many years the Franco regime saw to it that within Spain itself only pro-Nationalist accounts of the 1930s could be published , leaving the field of serious scholarship to foreigners , mostly from Britain and the United States . |
| 18 | There had been some plants under construction for wartime-approved purposes , but in 1945 itself only 170MW of new plant had been completed , and in 1946 this could only be increased to 288MW and in 1947 to 340MW . |
| 19 | Both Child and Douglas-Hamilton were worried that in rushing to beat the rains the task force was not allowing itself enough time for preparation . |
| 20 | It sings and laughs and shouts to itself all night long . |
| 21 | But as soon as I begin to be nice to him , a sort of self-satisfaction seems to creep into his voice and his manner ( very discreet , he 's been humility itself all day , no reproach about last night , of course ) and I begin to want to goad and slap him again . |
| 22 | James has been kindness itself all day . |
| 23 | My leg , which never mended properly after the accident , has not liked being cooped and cramped and bound , and like a mistreated animal it has turned against its master , making itself all pain . |
| 24 | Nor would he learn anything from the journal unless Meg gave him the key to it ; for the cypher was a special one , transforming itself constantly page by page as the journal progressed . |
| 25 | The skin 's power to regenerate itself also changes . |
| 26 | However , Althusser also argues that , as well as the manifestations of subjecthood changing from society to society , the concept of subjecthood itself also changes . |
| 27 | S 69 , FA 1985 , which replaced ss 124 , 125 , CGTA 1979 , and is itself now part of the Taxation of Capital Gains Act 1992 , makes it clear that , in connection with a retirement relief claim , a disposal of business assets is a disposal of the whole or part of a business , or a disposal of one or more assets which , at the time at which a business ceased to be carried on , were in use for the purposes of that business . |
| 28 | Though not looking to Christmas to make up lost sales , Amberstone found itself about 15% up , said Sandy Bennet . |
| 29 | Scientific and Engineering Software Inc , now calling itself simply SES , is expected to join the client/server object-oriented programming rush in January with a program called objectbench , a Unix-based object-oriented analysis toolset for C and C++ developers . |
| 30 | When an attractive opportunity presents itself then action follows . |