Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah seemed to have a special liking for angry gestures , even when she had provoked them herself . |
| 2 | He 's given me myself . |
| 3 | He 'd enjoyed them himself when he was younger . |
| 4 | It is easy prey — I 've caught them myself . |
| 5 | Until she was eighteen , her father had educated her himself ; he had dressed her in navy serge and black stockings and made her read John Stuart Mill for an hour every evening . |
| 6 | Manceville had designed it himself as a great Gothic palace and even incorporated the specially-built ruins of an abbey into one wing . |
| 7 | Joseph had a simple clearance to make for Palace 's first goal and Segers should have held the cross that led to the second — I could have caught it myself . ’ |
| 8 | I have even considered it myself . |
| 9 | Organisation they say — though I 've never cracked it myself — is the key to success and you ca n't hope to be efficient unless , for a start , you have a tidy garden shed or garage , where most people store tools these days ! |
| 10 | When a thinker unravels previously unnoticed implications of a familiar idea , one seems stupid to have missed them oneself ; but anyone who discerns a similarity which runs athwart the current categories , a poet by metaphor or a scientist by a new model or paradigm , can strike us with astonishment and awe , as a genius whose spontaneous flash illuminates what no logical operation within the frame of accepted concepts could have disclosed . |
| 11 | We have never manufactured them ourselves . |
| 12 | We have never manufactured them ourselves . |
| 13 | ‘ The neighbouring countries would be the first to suffer from more general sanctions against South Africa , and for very understandable reasons have not imposed them themselves . ’ |
| 14 | How often have you actually seen them yourself . |
| 15 | I 've done them myself ! |
| 16 | Well I 'd have done them myself ! |
| 17 | The problem of interpreting the rules was caused by the fact that , having made them myself , I was the sole arbiter . |
| 18 | ‘ And I ca n't claim to have made them myself . ’ |
| 19 | He had made them himself with the things the girl , Marie , had brought last time she 'd come . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've seen him myself , or else hearing about it has put me in a special state of mind , and all the other factors have come up right , atmospheric conditions , combinations of light and dark , what you like , and made me create what I believed I was seeing . |
| 21 | ‘ I have n't seen him myself for about a year , ’ she said quietly . |
| 22 | So did did they think they were doing themselves a disservice then when they , maybe when they amalgamated , or when they became part of the boilermakers , or when the boilermakers started taking in various trades to approach the employers as a as a a black squad unit for wage rises and conditions and so on , or did they they Would they have preferred to have done it themselves do you think ? |
| 23 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ Nigel replied , ‘ but he would n't have done it himself . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're thinking that the aunt killed him and made it look as though he 'd done it himself . ’ |
| 25 | You must have done it yourself some time or other . |
| 26 | Cos you have n't done it yourself , |
| 27 | In fact , you 'd have quite liked to have done it yourself . ’ |
| 28 | Do n't get me wrong , I 've done it myself in the past and seen just how far it got me . |
| 29 | Have n't done it myself yet . |
| 30 | I 've done it myself . ’ |