Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [pn reflx] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced with the same claims about the effect of words like " fair " , the courts today apply a doctrine of " mistake " which precludes all review of the expert 's analysis , unless the expert values the wrong shares or asks himself the wrong question about concepts such as fairness : see Chapter 13 . |
| 2 | The prat that calls himself the Hitman is how Stock Aitken Waterman 's Pete Waterman describes himself . |
| 3 | People , for reasons best known to themselves , regularly push wardrobes or pull pianos up the motorway that calls itself the tourist path . |
| 4 | He might still be a force for peace and unity in a country that calls itself The Union of Burma . |
| 5 | Erm , well C commands roughly it 's just a noun phrase , which can endow the pronoun with a reference or an interpretation , so if Florence saw herself Florence is a noun phrase and gives herself the reference Florence . |