Example sentences of "it [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're talking just under two hundred in Denmark and just under three hundred in Norway it may be cost-effective for us to do it ourselves with initial distribution from Stansted and maybe a local person doing any new distributions but I think in all honesty it will be as cheap for us |
| 2 | ‘ We never put a variety on the list until we have grown it ourselves for a year . ’ |
| 3 | Gover took over from Strudwick in 1938 and has run it himself since 1954 . |
| 4 | Manceville had designed it himself as a great Gothic palace and even incorporated the specially-built ruins of an abbey into one wing . |
| 5 | ‘ They were about to , but at this point the man , seeing what had happened , panicked and made a run for it himself on foot . |
| 6 | He had burned it himself on the fire he had made against the fruit-garden wall and it might be that no copies of it existed , yet in his mind 's eye it recreated itself , the child for ever stilled , its face a waxen mask , the old doctor haggard with sorrow and lack of sleep , the mirror no breath had misted held in his hand , the parents in each other 's arms . |
| 7 | He looked forward to practising it himself on others in due course . |
| 8 | To cut down on expense he did not get the big factory spreaders but started to spread it himself with tractor and shovel . |
| 9 | Then , when she left a few drops , he drained it himself before laying the empty glass beside his own on the wall . |
| 10 | He could only see it himself by standing with his back to one mirror and looking in another . |
| 11 | In 1724 , David Muir , Chamberlain to the Earl of Eglinton and a merchant in his own right , presented the Society with a silver arrow as the winner 's trophy for the papingo shoot and proceeded to win it himself in the first year . |
| 12 | In other respects a field officer will not claim familiarity with another district unless he happens to have worked it himself in the past . |
| 13 | " He 'll tell it himself in a few minutes . |
| 14 | After he conducted it himself in Vienna , it was hailed as ‘ Beethoven 's Tenth ’ — wrongly , for this is a great and splendid symphony that is essentially Brahmsian . |
| 15 | Drinking blackcurrant juice from a plastic beaker , her hair in a bob that looks as though she did it herself with kitchen scissors , she looks like a child . |
| 16 | She watched him get the pony ready , learning all the time so that she would be able to harness it herself in future when she wanted to drive out in Nahum 's absence . |
| 17 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 18 | It proved so effective that Wedgwood 's QC suddenly threw down the gauntlet to those he had continually derided as the ‘ united aesthetes ’ saying , ‘ If you are so sure you can save this building , buy it yourselves for £1 . ’ |
| 19 | I knew what he was getting at , of course , and I was so hurt that he should think he had to approach me in such a roundabout fashion — as if I was a terrible , uncharitable woman who had to be coaxed into a simple act of kindness — that I suggested it myself at once , though it was really the last thing I wanted . |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't believe it myself at first , until I started to notice little changes in Dowd . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I bought it myself at auction — it 's still bonded . ’ |
| 22 | And finally , staying with generalities on migration , I think it behoves us all to be a bit cautious because I see quite a lot of fantasy and fiction around in in this E I P and I 'd be guilty of it myself at times . |
| 23 | The reason , frequently given , and I shudder because I can remember advancing it myself on a history syllabus committee , is that since primary schooling is terminal for many children , they must cover the ground or remain forever ignorant . |
| 24 | Ca n't say I have n't thought about it myself on occasion . ’ |
| 25 | I have grown it myself for the last twelve years , in a small colony in a north-facing border which maintains itself by self-sown seedlings . |
| 26 | Actually , I did n't see the job advertised , I must admit , I was going to apply for it myself of course ! |
| 27 | Christ , nearly did it myself without trying . |
| 28 | I see it myself in my own marriage , and with our own four children . |
| 29 | Do n't get me wrong , I 've done it myself in the past and seen just how far it got me . |
| 30 | I would summarise it myself in terms of a market economy bounded by Christian principles of justice . |