Example sentences of "[pron] [pn reflx] [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | He planned to take care of her himself over the next five days , he told her . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll search him myself at the security check . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In other respects a field officer will not claim familiarity with another district unless he happens to have worked it himself in the past . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His father was dying , and he himself on the very point of becoming chief of Clan Gillian . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Do n't get me wrong , I 've done it myself in the past and seen just how far it got me . |
| 19 | I ca n't remember ; I was n't aware of it myself in the beginning . ’ |
| 20 | I did n't mind , I 'd done it myself in the past and probably will again . |
| 21 | We 'd known that in the mountains and in due course I was to see it myself from the other side of the fence . |
| 22 | Once the equipment works , the buyers can be encouraged to use it themselves under the salesperson 's supervision . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Headland has persuasively argued that , just as with the pygmies above , there was just not enough food for such groups in the forest itself ; in this case , the people seemed to have been trading wild meat for goods including carbohydrate and , indeed , may have grown it themselves in the past . |
| 25 | Where possible , when your report returns from reprographics , deliver it yourself to the main users . |
| 26 | I makes them myself in the back yard there I do it . |
| 27 | Mr Bryant had suggested to me that it would be no bad thing to have your youngself aboard the Russell when we sail Sunday next , and I 've agreed . |