Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatly increased life expectancy of both men and women today means that the children of many of them may themselves be entering old age when they , the parents , are really in need of care . |
| 2 | Therefore , much as I may myself enjoy theatre-going and much as I may cheer when I see a full theatre , I must contain my own enthusiasm if I am to be a cool observer . |
| 3 | ‘ I in no way dissent from this reasoning , but I should myself have been content to derive the same conclusion from the broader consideration that Parliament must have intended rating authorities to act in the same high principled way expected by the court of its own officers and not to retain rates paid under a mistake of law , or in paragraph ( a ) upon an erroneous valuation , unless there were , as Parliament must have contemplated there might be in some cases , special circumstances in which a particular overpayment was made such as to justify retention of the whole or part of the amount overpaid . |
| 4 | As to the question of statutory construction I should myself have construed the section in favour of the taxpayer without recourse to Hansard . |
| 5 | With this DG performance at mid-price there seems little reason to pay more , though admirers of Masur 's work ( I could myself among them ) really should hear his new version . |
| 6 | The calves raised white-slobbered mules enquiringly as he hung over them but they could offer no more explanation of the mystery than I could myself . |
| 7 | You wo n't find If er I 'd myself , I would fucking clean it . |
| 8 | I would myself have come to the same conclusion as that which the deputy judge expressed [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 514 , 528 : |
| 9 | ‘ I would myself , ’ agreed Lydia . |
| 10 | I must stand firm before my lord of Gloucester — on the morrow , I shall myself command the release of my most loyal advisers . ’ |
| 11 | Think what I shall say is , I shall myself quite simply , if it ever gets out I 'll say well look I know full well that you would n't have let me stop at Helena 's you would have objected to it I said , but Andy 's mum and dad , Andy was like pretty bad so we left him there and I said I stopped up to help look after him . |
| 12 | I can myself envisage no circumstances in which it would be right directly or indirectly to require a doctor to treat a patient in a way that was contrary to the doctor 's professional judgment and duty to the patient . |
| 13 | Wycliffe said : ‘ Have you thought that you may yourself be in danger ? ’ |
| 14 | In going through this document , look at it from the viewpoint of the buyer as well as your own client , and if the buyer 's conveyancer has made any slip or omission , put it right ; you may yourself one day be grateful for a similar courtesy . |
| 15 | So let me just say a few things before he does arrive , and catch his breath and perhaps have a cup of tea , on , on a topic which we , it 's not fully listed but I think is worth just mentioning , and that is writing for the press , because it may occur to you and in fact you may yourself on occasions , write things for the press . |
| 16 | ‘ These errors may be trivial in themselves , Mr Stevens , but you must yourself realize their larger significance . ’ |
| 17 | I am not sure she could actually have gone so far as to say things like : ‘ these errors may be trivial in themselves , but you must yourself realize their larger significance ’ . |
| 18 | And it was then , I believe , that his lordship said as he looked down again into his volume and awkwardly fingered an entry : ‘ These errors may be trivial in themselves , Stevens , but you must yourself realize their larger significance . |
| 19 | Yet , the original idea having come from her mother , she had been able to heap all the blame on her , even to accusing her of using up her inheritance , and continually complaining of the ‘ pittance ’ that she must herself have laid down in the terms of the letter she had written , purporting to come from Lady Merchiston . |
| 20 | It was evident to Theda that Benedict 's father could find no favour in Mrs Alderley 's eyes , but she could herself perceive some echo of his father 's faults in Benedict — of temper , she recalled with a tightening of the lips , and Lady Lavinia had certainly considered him idle and spendthrift . |
| 21 | Soon she would herself be in the market for a new home , and , though she and Boyd could not hope to outdo a contractor like the Mayor building for himself , she could pick up a few ideas and have them incorporated into their new house in Vanier Heights . |
| 22 | Now , looks pretty horrendous alright , but if we bum data on S T , S T minus one , S T minus two and P T minus one , all actual variables , if we bung those into the microfit and ask them to form the regression , it would do , right , it would just you 'd get S T equals A plus B that 's T minus one plus C A T minus two plus D A T minus one alright , and B T So before we we 'll call that equation four right , so although it looks nasty alright it 's fairly straightforward , it 's all , all we 're doing is , we 'd be asking the computer to regress S T on constant like how you would yourself T minus one to like values T minus two and like prices okay . |
| 23 | If you listen to a text enough times you will come to a point where you more or less know it by heart , and the correct tunes will be sort of " ingrained " in your ind to such an extent that you will yourself react if you would say the text with the wrong intonation . |
| 24 | Perhaps instead of asking questions about the neighbours , you can yourself be the old person who lives next door : I know you 're very busy [ acknowledging and supporting what they 're already doing ] but I wonder if you could help me ? |
| 25 | So I am going to suggest ways of finding out about earth energies and of understanding the processes involved , how the ancient peoples related to them , and how we may ourselves be able to build a stronger link . |
| 26 | In reaching that conclusion , we should ourselves administer a caution . |
| 27 | Above all , we must ourselves acknowledge that democracy is not incompatible with either . |
| 28 | We invoke the name of Omnipotence , humbly imploring his power and approbation ; to our countrymen we say , cease from your ribbons and banners ; support party struggles no more ; leave them to die , to exhaust themselves ; support those men of all parties who will espouse and maintain the good old rule of Christianity … we must ourselves be the great instrument of our regeneration . |
| 29 | We should expect a student to tackle a problematic discourse in the same way as we would ourselves : that is to say top-down , starting with general ideas of the discourse and filling in details — like difficult word meaning — later . |
| 30 | For there is an inevitable clash between what they believe the place of women should be , and the beliefs of the surrounding world in which they are set , and which indeed they may themselves have to some extent appropriated . |