Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking forward , and viewing ourselves as contributing to the development of provisionally held theories , it seems to offer no more than the hope that we might make a contributions even if we do not really understand what , how , or to what . |
| 2 | Anyway I 'll , I 'll just finish er telling you this , so Robert 's then sitting back smug with himself and looking at me as if to say what do you think about then , and I 'm thinking I 've heard these words before , where have I heard these words before |
| 3 | In the wake of his early film success , he rejected the idea of uprooting himself and moving to America as he wanted to work in theatre as well as films . |
| 4 | It should fulfil the double function of protecting himself and appealing to Lorton . |
| 5 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
| 6 | ‘ B is for Bell , ’ ' Paul said quietly , nodding to himself and staring at the rusting device . |
| 7 | The baby had been endeavouring with grim determination to haul himself from the floor on to Alexandra 's knee , gripping handfuls of her skirts to assist himself and heaving with astonishing strength . |
| 8 | Palin never says this himself but talking to him and reading through previous interviews , one thing is striking . |
| 9 | A man was meant to be doubtful about himself but undoubting about the truth . |
| 10 | It keeps the judge himself while trying under trial … |
| 11 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 12 | It 's hard to enjoy himself while fearing for their lives . |
| 13 | It 's hard to enjoy himself while fearing for their lives . |
| 14 | But the law has never set out to protect a subject who condemns himself whilst acting of his own free will . |
| 15 | The same issue featured Bradley Martin — as Hopkins tended to byline himself when writing on drugs — noting the News of the World 's ‘ sensational splurge on drugs and the pop world ’ , the harmful effect the attack had had on Nuttall 's work as a teacher , and Miles 's self-proclaimed lack of enthusiasm for LSD . |
| 16 | Thus he persuaded himself when writing to Theo , but not when he was face to face with a spitting hell-cat who abused him vilely , telling him to stop messing about with his stupid painting , scraping and altering it until her nerves were in shreds . |
| 17 | He seems most himself when snarling like a caged animal , droning and whining like a buzz saw , hacking at his guitar as if he is chopping wood . |
| 18 | In the same way he never recognised himself as eating with a familiar spoon from a familiar plate . |
| 19 | In Belfast , artist Jack Pakenham has always seen himself as fitting into a nebulous category of people in a no-mans-land , watching the activities of the city but unable to find a true affinity on either side of the often physically invisible diving line . |
| 20 | Although Richardson regarded himself as writing with a new realism , his novels gravitate towards the houses of the great as much as did the wealthier middle-class houses of his time . |
| 21 | It is the more remarkable that Pound in his letter to Williams should diagnose himself as suffering from a milder form of Eliot 's disease ; most of the time , alike in his life and his poetry , he seems to be denying it by strenuously over-compensating . |
| 22 | And while he says that he is prepared to go on doing musicals until he has one that really works , he would probably not agree with that picture of himself as fighting against the tide . |
| 23 | The individual sees himself as contributing to an indefinite process of inquiry by an unlimited community of inquirers , and he may well not believe that he will be around to see inquiry converge on the truth ( 5.589 , 2.652ff . ) . |
| 24 | Standing stones on their own , in groups , or in circular henge patterns often seem an integral part of the rocky landscape , growing out of the earth itself or lying at ease upon it ; but the work of human hands can be detected in the cup-and-ring decorations on some , the geometrical arrangement of others . |
| 25 | In-depth articles on the Company itself and reporting on the latest innovative trends from the design studio , all form part of their activities . |
| 26 | Of course , this is only a guide — much of the merit is in doing the exercise itself and thinking about the points raised . |
| 27 | Distorts perceptions of its own members , minimizing weaknesses within itself and concentrating on strengths . |
| 28 | Calling on Japan to stand up for itself when dealing with America , the book was a huge success , selling more than 1m copies . |
| 29 | The scale of fee should be commensurate with the risk undertaken , except where this could be detrimental to the establishment of a long term recurring client relationship , in so far as such opportunity presents itself when acting for a vendor client . |
| 30 | He was one of the central figures in the Catholic Committee , a self-appointed body formed in 1778 , predominately lay in character and noble in membership , which saw itself as speaking for ‘ informed ’ Catholic opinion ( Petre always protected radicals among the clergy , such as Alexander Geddes , q.v. ) and which agitated for the freeing of the English Catholics from civil disabilities . |