Example sentences of "[pron] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had made them himself with the things the girl , Marie , had brought last time she 'd come . |
| 2 | He snatched up a handful of the medicaments and began distributing them himself to the coolies in the front rank . |
| 3 | Match-wise , Botha admitted : ‘ We have to do something ourselves about the number of penalties we are conceding . |
| 4 | Thorough as ever , Whitaker had already commissioned and worked on scripts by Bill Strutton and Glyn Jones , and penned one himself about the Crusades . |
| 5 | ‘ Have a cigarette , ’ he says , and as if to persuade me he lights one himself in the corridor . |
| 6 | Send one copy to your insurer and keep one yourself in a safe place . |
| 7 | So what we have done is we have started something called Sailathon which is a word that Bugs made up erm and what it is is it 's , it 's an attempt to get yacht clubs , sailing clubs all round the country to do something themselves for the Sea Mission Foundation . |
| 8 | ‘ She is unable to give an interview to someone who has been so rude to her , ’ he told Groom curtly , but agreed to furnish her himself with the few facts she needed . |
| 9 | He planned to take care of her himself over the next five days , he told her . |
| 10 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll search him myself at the security check . ’ |
| 12 | I had left school by then , and I was allowed to choose him myself from a litter . |
| 13 | ‘ We never put a variety on the list until we have grown it ourselves for a year . ’ |
| 14 | Manceville had designed it himself as a great Gothic palace and even incorporated the specially-built ruins of an abbey into one wing . |
| 15 | He had burned it himself on the fire he had made against the fruit-garden wall and it might be that no copies of it existed , yet in his mind 's eye it recreated itself , the child for ever stilled , its face a waxen mask , the old doctor haggard with sorrow and lack of sleep , the mirror no breath had misted held in his hand , the parents in each other 's arms . |
| 16 | " He 'll tell it himself in a few minutes . |
| 17 | In 1724 , David Muir , Chamberlain to the Earl of Eglinton and a merchant in his own right , presented the Society with a silver arrow as the winner 's trophy for the papingo shoot and proceeded to win it himself in the first year . |
| 18 | In other respects a field officer will not claim familiarity with another district unless he happens to have worked it himself in the past . |
| 19 | His election was generally seen as the ‘ event of the year ’ and he himself as the ‘ man of the year ’ ; his popularity soon moved above that of the President and General Secretary . |
| 20 | His father was dying , and he himself on the very point of becoming chief of Clan Gillian . |
| 21 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 22 | The reason , frequently given , and I shudder because I can remember advancing it myself on a history syllabus committee , is that since primary schooling is terminal for many children , they must cover the ground or remain forever ignorant . |
| 23 | I have grown it myself for the last twelve years , in a small colony in a north-facing border which maintains itself by self-sown seedlings . |
| 24 | Do n't get me wrong , I 've done it myself in the past and seen just how far it got me . |
| 25 | I ca n't remember ; I was n't aware of it myself in the beginning . ’ |
| 26 | I did n't mind , I 'd done it myself in the past and probably will again . |
| 27 | We 'd known that in the mountains and in due course I was to see it myself from the other side of the fence . |
| 28 | A lot of people say that cavers are mad , that they cause a lot of trouble getting themselves stuck , and that they would n't do it themselves for a gold onion . |
| 29 | Once the equipment works , the buyers can be encouraged to use it themselves under the salesperson 's supervision . |
| 30 | Perhaps illogically , if there is to be any ‘ indulging in personalities ’ , voters prefer to do it themselves on the doorstep rather than to have it done for them . |