Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I detest being rescued myself , unless I have specifically requested it . ’ |
| 2 | If executives really understand business and the motivational challenge of making profit , the last thing they will want to do is put themselves out to grass , write papers for learned journals and theorize on aspects of business they 've previously failed to put into practice . |
| 3 | When the tests are used fairly the interviewer will have been tested himself or herself , and use the results as an indication of , and insurance against , their own prejudices . |
| 4 | ‘ Are you thinking about the fact that we might have been murdered ourselves last night ? ’ |
| 5 | His mother was entirely hoodwinked and , indeed , had she not known otherwise she would have been hoodwinked herself , Ashley thought despairingly . |
| 6 | I do not know if this triumphant wrongdoing owes anything to the example set by Ivy in Elders and Betters , by which I am conscious of having been influenced myself . |
| 7 | Too young to have been inoculated themselves , the babies had caught the disease from their older brothers and sisters who could have been inoculated but had not been . |
| 8 | They felt they had been abused themselves ; they felt impotent against the power weighed against them ; they felt they had no way to fight back . |
| 9 | With the others I felt … on the same side as them because they were saying that they had been tortured themselves in a way , had been turned into animals , tools . |
| 10 | The author of the Life of Wilfrid , who represents Wilfrid as persuading the king and queen to accept the word of God and as preaching to a people who had never before heard the Gospel , undoubtedly exaggerates the paganism of the southern Saxons , for Bede reveals from non-Wilfridian sources , first , that Aethelwealh had married a Christian princess and had been baptized himself and , second , that a number of ealdormen and thegns had likewise received baptism , with the priests , Eappa , Padda , Burghelm and Aeddi ministering to the common people either at the time of Aethelwealh 's conversion or subsequently ( HE IV , 13 ) . |