Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accused had been sexually abused himself as a child and now bitterly regretted the harm he had caused his daughters . |
| 2 | You can not be completely enchanted yourself because it is your job to enchant others . |
| 3 | The government service organisation considered that a shortage of legal and estates professionals may have been influenced by the Big Bang , but nothing was visible as a result of the Crash , and they had not been particularly affected themselves either way . |
| 4 | His father had been savagely beaten himself as a child , and had gone through life feeling a failure . |
| 5 | He 's kinda talked himself into it . |
| 6 | While setting up the calm surface of village life in a realistic manner , the film does so only as a contrast to the savagery that ensues : a priest is shot while making a stand against ‘ the enemies and oppressors of mankind ’ , the Post Office lady kills a German with an axe and is promptly bayonetted herself , and the vicar 's daughter disposes of the Quisling squire , to whom she had been amorously linked . |
| 7 | He 's always said himself that he wo n't experience defeat ! ’ |
| 8 | I think it 's quickly done itself actually . |
| 9 | Getting him to hospital is something I dread you would n't believe the struggle to get people to understand how bad it is — it 's usually building up for weeks but until he 's practically killed himself or someone else , no one wants to know . |
| 10 | She 's really enjoyed herself because tipple . |
| 11 | And her parents are dead , and her uncle is rich and influential , and for some strange reason he is quite attached to you , and Jane Postlethwaite is quite attached herself , and it 's time you got married — ’ |
| 12 | Pontypridd shunted Old Boys back 10 metres , when two of the junior club 's forwards detached themselves from a scrum 20 metres out . |
| 13 | AE 's sometimes addressed themselves to irate people who said they would never invest in futures , let alone through DPR . |
| 14 | I think Francis Morgan feels I 'm a bit old for Angela — I 'm forty-three and she is twenty-nine — but he 's never brought himself to say so . |
| 15 | Even though by 1873 it was proclaimed the biggest brewing company in the world , Truman 's too found itself under pressure from the growing popularity of Burton ales . |
| 16 | Chair , can I suggest that some of the people who are actually involved in this are actually asked themselves rather than agencies that might be working with them , because I think that , that most of the , the sort of people we 're talking about are actually very sensitive . |
| 17 | So erm the surrogate was artificially inseminated herself erm er , it took us seven months to achieve a pregnancy , and during this time we got to know each other very well |
| 18 | ‘ When I said I was tired she glanced sideways at the bed and hinted she was fairly tired herself . |
| 19 | This group , as well as the anti-nuclear movement itself , was strongly influenced by members of Revolutionary Struggle , an extreme left-wing group which mixed neo-Marxist economic analysis with traditional republican ideology and was strongly influenced itself by the revolutionary movement in Italy and , to a lesser extent , France , at the time . |