Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terry Rourke sold me for enough dollars to buy himself and his true girlfriend a small business . ’ |
| 2 | My secretary , Judy Fella , had used her not inconsiderable charm to persuade British Airways to give herself and me free seats on a Concorde as a publicity venture . |
| 3 | It was at that stage , Sir , that Mrs Brown made a claim for benefit to support herself and her eleven year old son and so that claim for benefit was a perfectly legitimate one . |
| 4 | In looking at her tender and respectful image of a woman friend , forced to write to support herself and her widowed mother ‘ Portrait of Cornelia Knight ’ ( 1793 ) we see something more direct , less cluttered , and less rhetorical than the ‘ Portrait of Mary , 3rd Duchess of Richmond in a Turkish Dress ’ ( 1775 ) . |
| 5 | The pittance that he allowed her to keep herself and his two children could not make much of a dent in Tawell 's more than robust bank account . |
| 6 | A PREGNANT mum who threatened to starve herself and her unborn child to death in an immigration row is toasting victory this weekend . |
| 7 | It is naturally important to them that their children and grandchildren should know what life was like when they were young , and although younger people may not realise it at the time , a knowledge of their own family history and the characters that made it can be valuable to them , too , if they are to understand themselves and their own lives . |