Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [pn reflx] " in BNC.

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1 In answer to the first question there is some evidence that initially there is a degree of opposition — staff see themselves losing the opportunity of sixth form teaching , parents , who often went to 11–18 schools themselves , regard them as a second best alternative .
2 I plan to donate approximately 30 items myself and a friend if willing to help me with the selling .
3 He appeared slight standing next to the sergeant major , although he must have been a shade over six feet himself .
4 Erm the contract is always between three parties ourselves the advertiser and the doctors ' practice .
5 What I have tried to do is to highlight the changes of greatest significance to a wider audience ; preparers and auditors of building society accounts will need to refer to the 1992 regulations themselves for a comprehensive assessment of all the changes .
6 He had won three of his four races as a two-year-old , including the Grand Criterium at Longchamp , and as a three-year-old had taken the Two Thousand Guineas Trial at Ascot before beating Petingo and Jimmy Reppin in the Two Thousand Guineas itself and then producing a telling burst of speed to win the Derby from Connaught .
7 Indeed , the two M boys themselves were not totally happy at first at having these initially undisciplined children visiting their home and generally being around on a regular basis .
8 It 's ten times itself minus three times .
9 It 's just ten times itself
10 ‘ I 've had ten children myself , so I know all about them , ’ she said .
11 I would n't think so , I ca n't think you 'll get through ten cartridges myself , that seems rather excessive .
12 Smart was deaf to advice , however , and in his play , which is bursting with wit and humour , ‘ He acts five parts himself and is only sorry he cant do all the rest .
13 ‘ That 's the best thing about Mark ; he may have scored 28 goals himself , but he 's probably created about half of our goals entirely , ’ says his Ibrox team-mate John Brown .
14 The result was the fragments , four in number , to which the name " The Greek State " has traditionally been given : that name was actually attached to one of the eight sections themselves .
15 Sickened by the sterile goals of the middle-class life into which they were born , they gave up everything and took off in a mobile home , fighting to be entitled to educate their two sons themselves .
16 As the mother of two sons myself , I now find my childhood reaction extreme , and am led to suspect that my separation anxiety originated some time before the birth of my sister .
17 These counter-attacks aside , there remain fundamental methodological differences in the two disciplines themselves .
18 Two times itself three times .
19 Norman Crawford then pulled off a master stroke , introducing McConnell , and he set up Mark Burns for a short corner strike in the 46th minute before adding two goals himself in the space of five minutes to leave Holywood 4–2 ahead .
20 Waugh perceived a resemblance between the two books himself , and in his letter to Orwell on Nineteen Eighty-Four he reproached him in a jibe as potent as any he ever made to friend or enemy : ‘ Men who love a crucified God need never think of torture as all-powerful . ’
21 An added bonus of fishing with a mate is that both of you will no doubt be fishing with an experimental bait or method on your second rod , so this means you can learn twice as much without having to fish with more than two rods yourself .
22 Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time .
23 Well he 's got two Walkmans himself , his mum 's got one , his brother 's got one .
24 He had seen Caballeros make his 3 and knew that unless the Spaniard cracked he would need to finish with two birdies himself .
25 Later these two disciples themselves also confirmed the authorship of Moses when recounting what had happened to them .
26 Their Lordships , the Bishops , have achieved their ends , setting up a regency to represent the whole Community of the Realm consisting of the Earls of Buchan and Fife , Sir James Stewart and John Comyn and , of course , the two Bishops themselves .
27 To quote a reaction of the mother without any other quotes from her , the two girls themselves , or any other rape survivors , suggests that this is the prime concern .
28 There are , for example , points of difference between the two men themselves in terms of background and , very probably , of character and disposition which , could one know them fully and evaluate them properly , might allow a closer and more subtle comparison .
29 ‘ I have had four children myself and I was a smoker before they were born .
30 WE had jeopardised a prosecution by allowing our informant to retain two sachets himself to help maintain his cover .
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