Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We asked ourselves what we could do to make the shops busy . |
| 2 | This is but one way of reminding ourselves what an extraordinarily good job they did of the ‘ conceptual framework ’ , as they called it . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is worth reminding ourselves what this Bill does . |
| 4 | But he did not know himself what it was and the impossibility of explaining made him turn his head at last and look across at the bright , rectangular picture Doyle was holding out . |
| 5 | He did n't know himself what he meant by that … |
| 6 | It seemed she could enjoy herself whatever she was doing , but she had to be doing something . |
| 7 | She did not know herself what lay behind the cryptic words , and , whatever it was , he would decide she was to blame for anything that befell . |
| 8 | ‘ Anyway , you do n't know yourself what they 'll bring in , do you , Rose , so you could n't have told him anything ? ’ said her husband after a pause , when his pathetic , bewildered-puppy air had intensified . |
| 9 | I was n't going to make the same mistake as my parents , forever denying themselves what they wanted now so that they could look forward to their retirement with complete peace of mind . |
| 10 | When Charles Temple , impelled by his love of logical discourse , asked himself what might be the ultimate evolution of the system of Indirect Rule , he replied that , by allowing ‘ natural conditions to exert their influence in a manner modified to meet the requirements of the native group ’ , Indirect rule would ‘ in due course of time ’ , render that group ‘ robust enough to stand by itself ’ . |
| 11 | When Charles Temple asked himself what form the finally evolved connection between the conquering races and the conquered , now existing in partially evolved form as Indirect Rule , and based on ‘ the relations which exist between a more competent man and a less competent ’ , might take , he answered that he saw no reason |
| 12 | A bird kept in captivity is fed all year round , so obviously it has an easier time than one in the wild which has to feed itself whatever the season , but it still has the hunting instinct . |
| 13 | Says our observer , ‘ Madonna has made herself what she is by ambition , not by training . |
| 14 | ‘ You have a nice way of expressing yourself which , I suppose , reflects your industrial background . ’ |
| 15 | Nevertheless , there have been several studies of patients who cut themselves which are very informative for the clinician ( Clendenin and Murphy 1971 ; Rosenthal et al. 1972 ; Simpson 1975 ) . |
| 16 | Okay , now I 've just used this one example , but if you look at erm each other and one another there is also a reflective pronoun to find that they work in the same way in the appropriate antecedents and it also works for quantifier pronoun relations every girl admires herself which is fine but herself admired every girl does n't make a whole lot of sense . |
| 17 | Well I do n't , I do n't really understand myself what it wants , so I 'm not in a position |
| 18 | So give yourself what help you can . |
| 19 | Any of these factors , as well as the renewed need to know and understand themselves which occurs at midlife , may lead to a belated search for their roots . |
| 20 | It was the unflagging encouragement and support of her parents Rosemarie and Bob ( above left ) that inspired Fiona to complete the difficult challenge she 'd set herself which included planning and leading a camping study group and carrying out painstaking historical research . |
| 21 | It had been a sentimental gesture on her part to keep it ; now she asked herself what was the point ? |
| 22 | They were in neither half of the house , but in a space that did not really exist for Maggie , who never asked herself which half the house was whose , since the whole house was , for her , theirs . |
| 23 | She asked herself which of them she should phone and found herself trembling at the thought of phoning any of them . |
| 24 | But we can not deal with this without asking ourselves what the results of a university education are supposed to be and what degree of intrinsic value pertains to them . |
| 25 | What I 've done now is taken you through to the point where , we 're asking ourselves what is it that management make a mess of ? |
| 26 | We do this by assuming that it is in fact cooperative , and then asking ourselves what possible connection there could be between the location of Bill and the location of a yellow VW , and thus arrive at the suggestion ( which B effectively conveys ) that , if Bill has a yellow VW , he may be in Sue 's house . |
| 27 | These various substantives evoke a state or quality which disposes the support to perform an action ( willingness , desire , impudence , ability , etc. ) , an action he performs which prevents or could prevent him from realizing it ( hesitation , refusal , reluctance , etc. ) , something he needs in order to realize it ( right , permission ) , a circumstance in which he finds himself which favours something 's occurrence ( chance , occasion ) , etc. — all of which evoke a situation existing before the infinitive event , and so imply a reference to a prior position of the support . |
| 28 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 29 | In South Wales and Clydeside a radical tradition established itself which emphasized direct action as an alternative to labour representation in parliament . |
| 30 | Alix liked to let her mind wander over the map of Britain , asking herself which interiors she could visualize , which not . |