Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ive no reason to get carried away myself … just like I was nt all doom and gloom before the Oldham match . |
| 2 | It might be ready for opening , or it might just have dissolved away itself . |
| 3 | A few weeks later , he also reported with some amusement how he had involved a colleague ( not a member of the group ) in discussion about another pupil when he had caught both himself and his colleague ‘ fixing ’ the child inadvertently in his bad behaviour . |
| 4 | FitzAlan had done so himself , except that his had been caused by fever and … |
| 5 | Gabriel wished she could have done so herself . |
| 6 | ‘ Could n't have done better myself . |
| 7 | And as for your explanation — could n't have done better myself , ’ he said . |
| 8 | I could n't have done better myself . |
| 9 | ‘ I could n't have done better myself ! ’ |
| 10 | He 'd said so himself . |
| 11 | Stephen neglects you , you 've said so yourself . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've said so yourself often enough , Howard . ’ |
| 13 | He could n't recall actually having met any himself , as yet . |
| 14 | Could Puttnam not have done more himself to change the cultural attitude of governments ? |
| 15 | He makes it his business to know what is happening on the street — although he is rarely if ever seen there himself these days — and feeds these spontaneous trends into the crucible of high fashion , to make it fizz and bubble . |
| 16 | They did not look as though they were suckering in the baleful way that the ordinary stag's-horn sumach does , but as I have not grown either myself yet , I can not vouch for their good behaviour . |
| 17 | There , by supporting Israel 's occupation of various Arab slivers , America has done neither itself nor Israel a service . |
| 18 | And George had found her apparently asleep , and had slept uneasily himself , impatient to get the whole matter properly thrashed out , hoping to discuss it in the morning . |
| 19 | I would have thought so myself |
| 20 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
| 21 | If he gets killed , he 's got only himself to blame . ’ |
| 22 | I have n't got much myself , though I 've been saving hard . |
| 23 | Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun . |
| 24 | For a chap who was reckoned a bit of a bumbler by his friends and a bit of a bruiser by his country 's neighbours , West Germany 's chancellor may have surprised even himself this week . |
| 25 | SHANE WARNE yesterday spun Australia to a crushing 139-run victory over the West Indies in Melbourne — and then admitted he had surprised even himself . |
| 26 | We have surprised even ourselves this season , but there is a long way to go yet . ’ |
| 27 | He has experimented successfully himself with low price hardbacks , but stresses that price can not be looked at in isolation . |
| 28 | I kept the key safe , Father Herluin , but never had time to toss the coffer into the bushes , before I was flung there myself , winded among the brambles , and scratches enough to show for it . |
| 29 | They wiped out the buffalo , more or less wiped out the Indians and , eventually , were driven away themselves by loneliness , extreme weather , drought , and the loss of topsoil brought on by over-farming . |
| 30 | Her beauty had been something which had filled even herself with wonder ; sometimes in the privacy of her own room she would gaze at some part of herself , at a hand , say , or a breast , and the perfection of its shape would fill her with joy , as if it were not a part of herself but some natural object of beauty . |