Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [pron] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So did did they think they were doing themselves a disservice then when they , maybe when they amalgamated , or when they became part of the boilermakers , or when the boilermakers started taking in various trades to approach the employers as a as a a black squad unit for wage rises and conditions and so on , or did they they Would they have preferred to have done it themselves do you think ? |
| 2 | In fact , you 'd have quite liked to have done it yourself . ’ |
| 3 | When a thinker unravels previously unnoticed implications of a familiar idea , one seems stupid to have missed them oneself ; but anyone who discerns a similarity which runs athwart the current categories , a poet by metaphor or a scientist by a new model or paradigm , can strike us with astonishment and awe , as a genius whose spontaneous flash illuminates what no logical operation within the frame of accepted concepts could have disclosed . |
| 4 | ‘ And I ca n't claim to have made them myself . ’ |
| 5 | At this point , ‘ Dr Johnson observed that there had been great disputes about the spelling of Shakespear 's [ sic ] name : ‘ At last it was thought it would be settled by looking at the original copy of his will ; but , upon examining it , he was found to have written it himself no less than three different ways . ’ |
| 6 | She did not claim to have invented it herself , in fact , she thought we might have already come across it . |
| 7 | In other respects a field officer will not claim familiarity with another district unless he happens to have worked it himself in the past . |
| 8 | Sir William Hamilton was said to have started it himself , rather than repair the roof , which let in torrents of water in one wing . |
| 9 | He says he would never have been able to have afforded it himself , so it opened up another world . |