Example sentences of "[noun] [pn reflx] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carole , who had fallen to the floor and was attempting to massage her husband 's knee , looked up to see Kenneth Baker himself in a camel-hair dressing gown , flanked by two men with guns . |
| 2 | The elderly admirer is Nestor himself in a false beard and Irma , who is clearly short sighted as well as dim and really nice , hardly notices the difference . |
| 3 | ‘ The tests were poor discriminators and , in terms of checking on their progress and diagnosing their weaknesses , we could do a far better job ourselves in a fraction of the time , ’ he declared |
| 4 | The contrast between the two kings was ruefully noted by Louis himself in a remark he made to Walter Map : |
| 5 | Goody himself in a later essay points out that ‘ at least during the last 2,000 years the vast majority of peoples of the world ( most of Eurasia and much of Africa ) have lived in neither kind of situation , but in cultures which were influenced in some degree by the circulation of the written word , by the presence of groups or individuals who could read or write ’ ( 1968 , p. 4 ) . |
| 6 | Although the electorate had voted overwhelmingly against membership of the UN itself in a 1986 referendum [ see p. 34959 ] , Switzerland had since 1984 been a full participant in the General Arrangements to Borrow ( GAB ) established in 1962 , when the " Group of 10 " industrialized countries undertook to lend to the IMF . |
| 7 | Alcuin wrote to Aethelred , probably in 791 , expressing affection for him and urging him to display kindness not cruelty and reason not anger in his deeds , and to speak truth not falsehood , but the sack of Lindisfarne by Vikings in June 793 ( ASC D , s.a. 793 ) provided a shocked and outraged Alcuin with an opportunity to declaim against the evils of Northumbrian society , as he saw them , and the shortcomings of the king himself in a letter to Aethelred and his nobles . |
| 8 | Gilbey , who has been her greatest emotional support since the collapse of her marriage to Prince Charles , broke the news himself in a telephone call to Kensington Palace . |
| 9 | One of the most impressive demonstrations of the virtues of this contextual , or holistic , approach is that offered by Radcliffe-Brown himself in a paper entitled ‘ The Mother 's Brother in South Africa ’ and first published in 1925 . |
| 10 | He saw his would-be rescuer launch himself in a final dive … |
| 11 | Nevertheless , some spark of remaining pride had driven her to array herself in a sprig muslin gown she had bought with the peach , topped by a pretty chipstraw bonnet that at least provided a little place to hide her face under its poking brim . |
| 12 | Furthermore , the social aspirations of the cultivators themselves in a climate where actual and potential production per man per year is less than in temperate countries , and such simple facts as the rapid rotting of produce , have to be taken into account . |
| 13 | Having made a collection myself in a depressed area , I got £2.30 in total . |
| 14 | When Fokine was asked who was the male figure in Les Sylphides he replied : ‘ Perhaps he is Love himself in a romantic , nostalgic mood . |
| 15 | Allied troops now punched deep into Kuwait and on into Iraq itself in a multi-pronged attack . |
| 16 | People were coming to accept that Nonconformist chapels should look like ‘ churches ’ and that Nonconformist services should be more ‘ dignified ’ and ‘ ecclesiastical ’ ; it was not surprising that people should come to view the nature of the Church itself in a different vein from their forefathers . |
| 17 | Indeed , the basis of the new scheme had been proposed by the Law Society itself in a memorandum published in 1968 . |
| 18 | Envy of the children — or over-concentration upon them by the other partner -will show itself in a dozen ways in attitudes and actions . |
| 19 | Oh , much ; just like the profession itself in a way . |
| 20 | Characteristically within traditional professions such as Law and Medicine , it would have been beyond the bounds of decency to put any of one 's peers or the profession itself in a morally ambiguous or cynical light . |
| 21 | For my next trick , I 'm going wrap myself in a union jack and stand on the terracing at Parkhead . |
| 22 | Urquhart then plugs this figure into an assessment of the health effects of polonium that was made by the NRPB itself in a report on the radiological impact of coal-fired power stations . |
| 23 | As Pressman reports , Woonerf streets exhibit a stronger social cohesiveness , much brought about by the involvement of the residents themselves in a sophisticated process of planning their own surroundings . |
| 24 | I 'd seen the film myself in a mixed audience of youth workers , and it had left many of us women upset and shaken . |