Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | In all this , remember that the phenotypic effects of a gene are the tools by which it levers itself into the next generation . |
| 16 | No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next |