Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You used me in Seville and you have n't even the decency to deny it — for me or your own self-respect . ’ |
| 2 | Conversely , the sufferer from addictive disease can not stop and denies the causal connection even up to his or her own death while blaming environmental pollution , an influenza epidemic , stress or any other external factor as the cause of his or her increasing disability . |
| 3 | Perhaps we tend not to see this year 's household survey as an historical datum because it is the human condition to flatter ourselves that our own lives are outside time , and therefore outside history . |
| 4 | We 'd created our own power , fed ourselves and our many guests from our own soil , and the cottages were letting well . |
| 5 | This view could be called cynical , but my experience leads me to believe that in most situations we are preoccupied with ourselves and our own agendas . |
| 6 | What we must do is appoint ourselves as our own coach since , as we mentioned earlier , ultimately we teach ourselves . |
| 7 | ( It was at this time , I think , that she told me that her own mother , means-tested in the late twenties , had won the sympathy of the relieving officer , who ignored the presence of the saleable piano because she kept a clean house , with a cloth on the table . ) |
| 8 | What better place to release them than their own territory ? |
| 9 | Why do n't you say to them that they each organisation I mean H M S O and have ten minutes each for a presentation |
| 10 | ‘ Though I sometimes think Violette is more like me than my own daughter . ’ |
| 11 | I tell you they did more for me than my own mother did . |
| 12 | He was coming inside the English Association with the hope of assuring himself that his own principles were being carried out by it . |
| 13 | In 1898 Emma , Lady Sherborne , converted the Lodge into her dower house , built two little lodges to herald its and her own grandeur and to house her staff , destroyed the staircase and made the two long rooms into four apartments . |
| 14 | Part was published in the 1939 work Prices and Wages in England from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Centuries , but there remains a mass of data and comments written by Beveridge himself and his many research assistants . |
| 15 | It is as if the Poet were concentrating so strongly on giving an adequate image of the Friend that he ceases to think about himself and his own unworthiness by comparison . |
| 16 | In Marshall ( Thomas ) ( Exporters ) Ltd v Guinle [ 1978 ] 3 WLR 116 whilst managing director of the plaintiffs and without their knowledge or consent , the defendant placed orders for the benefit of himself and his own company with the plaintiffs ' suppliers . |
| 17 | Paul knows , not only from pre-conversion experience but , as a careful reading of Romans 7 will show , from painful experience of struggle and failure as a Christian , that when he relies on himself and his own resources ( such seems to be the nuance of ‘ I of myself ’ in Romans 7:25 ) , he remains subject to the law of sin . |
| 18 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
| 19 | In celebrating the Friend the Poet is celebrating himself and his own power : Here again Shakespeare has personalized the Friend while depersonalizing the Poet . |
| 20 | ‘ A person involved in the occult is totally preoccupied with himself and his own desires . |
| 21 | Exactly like himself and his own father ! |
| 22 | It is , in fact , an approach to managing health services and the range of views is largely reflecting just where individuals are within an organisation , the key tasks that concern them and their own approach to implementation . |
| 23 | Yet such discrepancies are not caused by the logic of structures but by the messy and often far from inevitable ways in which people come to understand the world around them and their own practices . |
| 24 | What modern science seems to suggest is something rather different : that there are other universes just as real as our own , but that there is no connection between them and our own reality . |
| 25 | Now can you tell me who or what that woman was ? ’ |
| 26 | Mrs Wood seems not to be too concerned about her separation but she and her own mother are very worried by John 's behaviour . |
| 27 | He suggest that behind Raskolnikov 's sister 's loathing of him there lurks attraction , and he states flatly that she and his own wife were once in love with each other ; and perhaps he is right . |
| 28 | A guarantee is a promise by a third party which , if properly drawn up , will make that party legally liable to pay you if your own debtor can not or will not settle . |
| 29 | Jesus said just before he was living his disciples , his followers , you and me , he said you shall receive power after the holy spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses unto me yes we witness by our life but there 's a danger in making that a cop out , because one other requirement of a witness is that they talk , they 've got ta say what they know , these four men were good witnesses , they went back and they told the city what they had found , and there 's placed upon you and me that responsibility to go back and to tell what we 've found , this is a day of good tidings , we do wrong to keep silent . |
| 30 | If you send all those er bits and pieces in at the end of the week we just ask you and you most people do n't get this wrong . |