Example sentences of "[pron] had [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | In July of 1982 , during the Israeli siege of west Beirut , I had myself prowled through the archives to try and discover the political roots of the Lebanese Phalange , Israel 's latest ally in its war against the Palestinians . |
2 | Neither the servants nor the king were amused by Pecham 's decree ; nor indeed were some bishops who had themselves risen to the episcopate on a mounting tide of benefices with and without cure of souls , and who were even now rewarding their own diocesan officers with a plurality of cures . |
3 | The contravener could not be made liable under section 6(2) except to the extent of the money or property he had himself received from the investor . |
4 | More than that : he had himself sprung from the upper working class and naturally despised as unclean the lower working class : his life was made a misery by their proximity , and he longed for them to be evicted or murder each other in one of their not infrequent rows . |
5 | Mr Shamir , besieged by his party 's hawks , refused to accept America 's terms for holding Israeli-Palestinian talks in Cairo to prepare the election he had himself proposed for the occupied West Bank and Gaza . |
6 | Janet Preshous played short tape-recordings of Mr Alf Shakespeare , Miss Molly Puckle and Mr Sid Cadwallader recalling the Railway 's heyday and those present , may of whom had themselves travelled on the line , shared their memories . |