Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I defended myself for the first time : I pushed him away . |
| 2 | This degree is an exciting new venture , and I see myself as the first of many lay people who will benefit from the training here ’ . |
| 3 | Do I want this job so badly ? she asked herself for the hundredth time . |
| 4 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 5 | She prided herself on the last . |
| 6 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 7 | Security said they 'd send someone over right away , and she busied herself for the next few minutes with the half-dozen patients in the waiting area . |
| 8 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 9 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 10 | People who hear themselves for the first time on a tape-recorder often find it hard to believe that the stranger talking is actually them . |
| 11 | We will be dealing with all of those existing clients in terms of reassessing both their care needs and their financial ability to contribute to whatever package of care they 're getting , as well as taking on board all the new ones who present themselves for the first time in nineteen ninety four , five . |
| 12 | Okay so now suppose you have Florence as the first noun in T three and herself no do it the other way round , suppose you had herself as the first noun and T three Florence okay then you 'd find Florence does C command herself but it should n't |
| 13 | He even implies that those who sacrificed themselves in the Second World War are in danger of being betrayed . |
| 14 | He 's been lucky of course , in that respect , in that he has had something to occupy himself over the last few months as far as the Gulf war is concerned , and in that respect , of course , I think I do n't I think it would be very difficult to fault him . |
| 15 | You feel him imagining himself as the last rock of culture and civilization being swept over by a wave of barbarism and Jews ( communism and commercialism ) , the saviour of more than the Constitution , the saviour of all that has been culture , the snob of the West . |
| 16 | Apart from that , there 's a certain justification for the MC4 clasping the live album nettle — given that it was their constant , sometimes belligerent belief in gigging that helped them establish themselves in the first place . |
| 17 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |
| 18 | Asked what he would feel like if , on Sunday night , he found himself on the 18th tee tied for the lead , he replied that it could only be a ‘ shattering experience ’ . |
| 19 | In all this , remember that the phenotypic effects of a gene are the tools by which it levers itself into the next generation . |
| 20 | No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next |