Example sentences of "himself [coord] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A family member who did not react to the craziness of Chemical Dependency or other addictive disease would be a very strange , unreactive , person who might well be considered to be at least odd if not ill or crazy himself or herself for not reacting . |
| 2 | In agreement with the judge we thus conclude that as a matter of substance and reality each of the two parties to the agreements placed himself or herself under merely individual obligations … |
| 3 | This interviewer sees himself or herself as the natural successor to Sir Robin Day . |
| 4 | In this context , the youngster must come to terms with his or her changing and changed body ; must try out the precepts , attitudes and ideals of childhood against the demands of the transitional and later groups among which existence now lies ; must establish himself or herself as an individual with rights and responsibilities and with a unique and largely self-determinant personality ; and must cope with feelings and impulses which have previously been only of the vaguest and most unformulable nature . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , anyone can describe himself or herself as a homoeopath . |
| 6 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 7 | Under the general law a surety is expected to satisfy himself or herself of the extent of the risk proposed to be undertaken . |
| 8 | A body known as the G10 Commission had the authority to decide , either ex officio or on application by a person believing himself or herself to be under surveillance , ‘ on both the legality of and the necessity for the [ surveillance ] measures ’ . |
| 9 | The sufferer from anorexia may be told by others that he or she is thin but has a distorted body image and believes himself or herself to be " fat " or " normal " regardless of body weight . |
| 10 | The speaker who uses it feels himself or herself to be stating , with an explicitness not found in the merely qualifying adjective , even when it is ascriptive , that the property expressed does hold of the entity identified by the whole noun phrase ; an inevitable concomitant is that the postnominal adjective must be to a certain extent salient in the situation where it is used . |
| 11 | This is not the same as being someone to whom other people often bring their problems ; that does not guarantee the instinctive knowledge of whether something is real or merely a " try-on " , or whether something that is being glosssed over is really something that should be dug out and gone into in depth , or whether the time has come to say and do nothing other than give encouragement to the sufferer to work something out for himself or herself with the assistance of other sufferers in the group . |
| 12 | Any reader can , in any case , place himself or herself within the deictic centre by adopting an appropriate psychological distance towards those who lose their lives at war . |
| 13 | The counsellor has to be at peace with himself or herself before being able to do work of any value with people in the active phase of primary addictive disease or family disease or , later , at any stage of their recovery . |
| 14 | With Gide and many others in mind , Said observes that virtually no European writer who wrote on or travelled to the Orient in the period after 1800 exempted himself or herself from a quest for sexual experience unobtainable in Europe : |
| 15 | The person who seeks to protect himself or herself from doubt in their belief , Newman argued , is like the person who , in order to be protected from the risk of illness , never ventures outside the home . |
| 16 | Tough love requires that the family member " lets go " of the primary sufferer and seeks help for himself or herself from the appropriate Family Fellowship , concentrating primarily on his or her own recovery from the addictive urge to fix or control the lives of others . |
| 17 | How can the recovering person protect himself or herself from relapse ? |
| 18 | It is , or should be , an hour in which the pupil gradually comes to learn to defend himself or herself in argument , to have confidence in his or her own prose style , to grow up intellectually . |
| 19 | If we accept , with Aristotle , that a citizen by true definition is someone who involves himself or herself in public or community affairs , then that person is ‘ active ’ . |
| 20 | It is an important part of your role as an interviewer to help the candidate relax enough to show himself or herself in as accurate and good a light as possible . |
| 21 | Each Member shall feel himself or herself in honour bound as a private individual to abstain from hostile or hurtful criticism , either of the doings of the Society or the individual Members of the same . |