Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They compel the reader to give something of herself or himself to the text . |
| 5 | If the terms survive the drafting process the resultant consent order will be not only clear , but specific and any party binding him or herself to it will know precisely what has been accepted and what is the commitment . |
| 6 | The authorities tend to show that if a test is bodily invasive and/or unpleasant or dangerous then the court will not stay an action until the plaintiff submits him or herself to the test . |
| 7 | In the morning he would take it and himself to the embassy , to beg her to forgive him . |