Example sentences of "[pers pn] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of my friends have been frightened into no longer wanting to smoke , others have faced the facts but are reconciled to being fonder of smoking than they are afraid of cancer , but I myself yield to the temptation to smoke although convinced that I ought to abstain . |
| 2 | I myself work for a newspaper ( Gulp ! — IM ) and believe in individuals having their own opinions ( Why work for a newspaper then ? — IM ) . |
| 3 | I myself found at the entrance of one of them a small neatly-worked tomahawk , of an inch and a half in length , together with some slips of blue cotton rags , which the birds had doubtless picked up at a deserted encampment of the natives . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps his own impatient temperament made this especially essential in his case : I myself fled to the wilderness when it proved no longer possible to live harmoniously with men , who , admittedly , were a frequent obstacle to my inner joy . |
| 5 | Julia is like that too , so that some years later I asked Elizabeth if she herself looked at the world in that way . |
| 6 | Without more to-do he hurried from her , and she herself went into the market-room . |
| 7 | When Mary Queen of Scots went to Edinburgh she bewailed going out among savages , and she herself went from a sixteenthcentury court that held but a barbarous , or rather a drivelling and idiotic and superficial travesty of the Italian culture as it had been before the debacle of 1527 . |
| 8 | If he could behave like that towards a woman he had once loved , a woman rendered helpless , what could she herself expect in the future ? |
| 9 | Ann McAllister Olivarius in December 1989 moved to Virginia where her husband Jef McAllister is working for Time Magazine as its State Department correspondent ; she herself works as a lawyer for Perot Systems Corporation . |
| 10 | She herself sat on the couch and settled her skirts primly around her legs in what struck Melissa , in a flash of impish humour , as a symbolic gesture of respectability and self-protection . |
| 11 | Some time subsequently you yourself went to the flat . |
| 12 | This means keeping all the paperwork relevant to the successful candidate , including the job/personnel specifications , the advertisement used and most especially the notes you yourself made during the interview , immediately afterward and while making the final selection . |
| 13 | But individualism rests on the assumption that individuals are not like this : it is because they themselves contribute to the system of social life that they are so important in explaining it . |
| 14 | The answer must be that it is much less important by what mechanisms people come across art than what they themselves bring to the encounter . |
| 15 | But then they do n't even seem to have wondered before what they themselves feel about the matter . |
| 16 | He himself went into the Army , and erm , he was , he was born in a in a little village , and an article in the newspaper that I acquired in Strasbourg , said that he was born in this little village Lom le Soniere his was born to life , but in Strasbourg , where he wrote the National Anthem , he was born to immortality . |
| 17 | Ceauŝescu , though he himself ascribed to no religion , had been moved by the Ambassador 's plea on behalf of a distressed mother . |
| 18 | On the subject of negotiations with the government , Mandela emphasized that he himself had at no time entered into negotiations about the future of the country — thus attempting to calm black fears arising from his various meetings with government ministers and the then President P. W. Botha . |
| 19 | The subject had seemed to be taboo ; and he himself had in a way pressed her down into his mind because thoughts of her conjured up a feeling tinged with regret and shame , centred round a scene in the bedroom and the rage of his mother . |
| 20 | But it is interesting that among the ‘ great issues of today and tomorrow ’ that he himself wrote as an agenda for Labour , prominence is given to one on equality : ‘ whether , as we grow richer , this new wealth is used exclusively for individual selfishness or for the growth of necessary community services , and whether , in consequence , we follow or escape the American precedent of great private affluence surrounding rotting public services ’ . |
| 21 | While Mozart 's offspring , both physical and spiritual , flourished , he himself slid into a decline . |
| 22 | There was Blind Man 's Buff , and a thing called Find the Penny , in which he himself stood like a statue in the centre of the sitting-room while the boy searched him all over , rifling through his pockets for a hidden coin . |
| 23 | Some birds and animals come via the RSPCA and he receives funding for these ; but he himself pays for the care of injured wildlife brought in by the public . |
| 24 | His work can be summarised by an expression which he himself used in a retirement speech in 1976 : ‘ Physics is not just concerning the nature of things but concerning the interconnectedness of all the natures of things ’ . |