Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I asked myself the same question , ’ said Dr. Ray . |
| 2 | ‘ I got myself a few commissions — did I tell you I was thinking of going freelance ? ’ |
| 3 | When summer comes and I finally have to reluctantly discard my thermals , I knit myself a few cardigans just in case it is not hot enough for me — and come to think of it , our weather is hardly ever hot enough for me . |
| 4 | Now that I actually stood in the house of Victor Frankenstein , I felt myself no more than a character in a fantastic film . |
| 5 | Nevertheless one can hardly hope to discuss knowledge in a language any less metaphorical than Descartes ' ( I have myself a few paragraphs back analogized not only to seeing but to ‘ glimpsing ’ and being ‘ illuminated ’ by a ‘ flash ’ , not only to clarity but to drawing a ‘ clear line ’ ) . |
| 6 | When at last she got into bed she allowed herself a few angry tears , then brushed them furiously away . |
| 7 | There Roman time they , well as you know yourself a few hundred years they hope to find er nearly half of the world |
| 8 | Though he allowed himself no fewer than four books ( She , Ayesha , She and Allan and Wisdom 's Daughter ) in which to analyse this character , he never seems to have decided exactly what she was meant to represent or how far she was intended to be a symbol of the ‘ world 's desire ’ . |
| 9 | He permitted himself a few seconds to savour his revenge , before delivering the coup de grace with a heti'i power-kick , which would snap Grant 's neck like a dried stick . |