Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [pn reflx] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are yourself the water of life ; what shall discover that water , save the tearful eye ? ’ |
| 2 | She was herself the daughter of a rabbi , whose father and grandfather before him had upheld the light of Jewish learning in their part of Poland . |
| 3 | Connections quickly came to the fore in the application , however , for Kinnoull pointed out that the wife of the minister of Tippermuir was a lady ‘ for whom the Dowager Lady Findlater has a particular regard ’ , and she was herself the niece of Sir James Grant 's uncle , Sir William Dunbar . |
| 4 | Not only do they record the history of their localities , they are themselves the product of history , played on a far wider stage . |
| 5 | Men are gladly taken back into their lives , but it is themselves the women have discovered . |
| 6 | One can then choose to say either that it constitutes the difference by virtue of having a particular internal ‘ feel ’ associated with it , or that it is itself the difference , simpliciter . |
| 7 | Mind belongs to a genus wholly superior to sense as man is to woman ; unblemished and purged … it is itself the most religious of sacrifices and its whole being is highly pleasing to God . |
| 8 | It is itself the English mind , the element in which we live and work . |
| 9 | The four circles are not presented as dealing with quite separate topics , such that to move from one to another would be in any sense a change of subject , but rather as four equally fundamental and interlocking dimensions of the same ground-motif that runs throughout : that Jesus Christ is the actualisation and realisation in time and history of God 's eternal decision to be God for and with man ; he is himself the everlasting covenant of God with us , and in that covenant the meaning and purpose of the created universe itself is contained ; and in him too lies the uncovering and overcoming of man 's estrangement from God by the divine ‘ No ! ’ of the cross which leads on to the ‘ Yes ! ’ of the resurrection . |
| 10 | He was himself the first discoverer of that ‘ morbidity of temperament ’ . |
| 11 | He explained to me that the interview had been cancelled on the order of his superiors — and he was himself the head librarian ! |
| 12 | The awful thing was that all this time Lewis had never had any doubts he was himself the new owner of Wyvis Hall . |