Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 6 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 7 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The BBC again found itself the unwilling accomplice of the advertisers . |
| 12 | Secondly , their eyes are on eternal truth , of which each party deems itself the sole defender . |
| 13 | She gulped , barely capable of denying herself the inevitable . |
| 14 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 15 | Now ecologists found themselves the veritable gurus of our age . |
| 16 | The self-abnegation of Friends , emptying themselves the better to be filled by the Light Within , did not then necessarily exclude the pursuit of righteousness in the world ; equally , in the outlook of growing numbers of Quakers in the early nineteenth century , this stance could merge with a stress on the experience of grace which aligned them with evangelicals . |
| 17 | I found myself the only ‘ other ’ . |
| 18 | By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate . |
| 19 | ‘ But I will , ’ he said softly , allowing himself the smallest of smiles . |
| 20 | Durkin soon made himself the principal object of attraction . |
| 21 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 22 | DAVID Sinclair made himself the ideal employee when he filled in an application form for a sales job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 23 | He had also made himself the leading authority on fossil fish , taking over Cuvier 's work . |
| 24 | But now Mr Gorbachev has made himself the unpalatable alternative . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the local historian will find it useful to think of his chosen parish or neighbourhood in terms of broad categories such as ‘ open-field arable ’ or ‘ wood-pasture ’ or ‘ fenland edge ’ and to set himself the fundamental task of understanding how people adapted themselves to their physical environment . |
| 26 | The Shah went in there and paused in front of the graben image of the ruthless and brilliant army officer who had seized power in 1921 , and ended the Qajar dynasty , proclaimed himself the new Shah , the first of the Pahlavi dynasty , and begin to recreate Ira . |
| 27 | Emperor Akihito , 56 , formally proclaimed himself the 125th emperor of Japan on Nov. 12 , in a lavish 30-minute ceremony held 20 months after the death of his father , Hirohito ( in death known as Showa ) . |
| 28 | Voltaire , an altogether more sympathetic figure , who incidentally used to serve himself the best Burgundy while giving his guests vin ordinaire , observed in one of his philosophical tales that la lune de miel is followed the next month by la lune de l'absinthe . ] ) |
| 29 | Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week |
| 30 | The prospect of1993 and the abolition of customs controls between EC countries has spurred the Italian State to set itself the awe-inspiring task of cataloguing a further two million items of its national heritage within two years in execution of its duty to ‘ care for Italy 's landscape , history and cultural heritage ’ ( to quote the Constitution ) . |