Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't mind , I 'd done it myself in the past and probably will again . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He snatched up a handful of the medicaments and began distributing them himself to the coolies in the front rank . |
| 4 | ‘ She is unable to give an interview to someone who has been so rude to her , ’ he told Groom curtly , but agreed to furnish her himself with the few facts she needed . |
| 5 | Headland has persuasively argued that , just as with the pygmies above , there was just not enough food for such groups in the forest itself ; in this case , the people seemed to have been trading wild meat for goods including carbohydrate and , indeed , may have grown it themselves in the past . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I had left school by then , and I was allowed to choose him myself from a litter . |
| 8 | Once the equipment works , the buyers can be encouraged to use it themselves under the salesperson 's supervision . |
| 9 | In other respects a field officer will not claim familiarity with another district unless he happens to have worked it himself in the past . |
| 10 | Manceville had designed it himself as a great Gothic palace and even incorporated the specially-built ruins of an abbey into one wing . |
| 11 | Do n't get me wrong , I 've done it myself in the past and seen just how far it got me . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had made them himself with the things the girl , Marie , had brought last time she 'd come . |
| 14 | Perhaps illogically , if there is to be any ‘ indulging in personalities ’ , voters prefer to do it themselves on the doorstep rather than to have it done for them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ We never put a variety on the list until we have grown it ourselves for a year . ’ |
| 18 | Match-wise , Botha admitted : ‘ We have to do something ourselves about the number of penalties we are conceding . |