Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me about himself in a cab after a show . ’ |
| 2 | To someone like myself with a traditional physics-orientated education the first volume is a revelation . |
| 3 | Gossip put nothing of himself to the test but his patience . |
| 4 | He kept himself to himself as a rule , except for meals : attended what lectures he chose , and cut the rest . |
| 5 | My daughters have taken you to themselves as a sister ; João I know has shown you every courtesy and kindness — and I myself give up valuable time each day to speak to you . |
| 6 | Anyway , now that I 've got you to myself for a moment can we make some plans ? |
| 7 | There is also , in the fabric of the study method , the personal communication from you to yourself in the form of notes . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll have Lou Collins pick them up himself at the airbase on touchdown . ’ |
| 9 | It is one thing to claim that by sharing in a dramatic exploration of a theme I can learn something about myself in the process , and quite another to suggest the drama is for me and about me . |
| 10 | Courtship is marked by a compulsive desire to share everything about yourself with the person you love , and marriage usually begins the same way . |
| 11 | Modigliani must have sensed the originality in the young boy 's personality even at that age ; perhaps he saw something of himself as a youth . |
| 12 | The old man recognised something of himself in the picture , stepped back and narrowed his eyes . |
| 13 | Sally-Anne had already checked that this was the only one of herself in the pile . |
| 14 | At this point the poet ‘ takes off ’ and in a moment of vision tells us that Man 's ‘ greatness ’ is derived from early childhood experiences — provided that we have contributed something from ourselves to the bare impressions . |
| 15 | Social theories do not , of course , operate in an ideological vacuum , nor do they create one around themselves as a result of some special ‘ scientific ’ procedure . |
| 16 | Lucy had curled up on a pile of old throwouts in the corner of the Wardrobe department , and had pulled some of them over herself like a burrowing animal . |
| 17 | It 's no good whispering them to yourself on the top deck of an otherwise empty bus , you 've got to shout them in school halls , fields , front rooms of houses , from your bedroom window … anywhere , really . |
| 18 | I am learning that to narrow a woman 's focus and to make her faceless , as the fog does every day , turns her despite herself against the things she loves best . |
| 19 | His arms tightened as if he would absorb her completely , grinding her into himself in a desperate assuagement of an age-old hunger . |
| 20 | ‘ Be quiet , child , ’ said Philip , laying a hand restrainingly on Harry 's arm , though he would have preferred to lay it about his ears if he could have had him to himself for a moment . |
| 21 | Her father 's belief that people made their own luck was true , Cora-Beth thought , when by lunchtime the following day Harry had finished his business with the architect and her ruse to have him to herself for a few hours paid off . |
| 22 | He was sure that her withdrawal meant nothing except that she was happy and occupied but he felt oddly lonely , as if she had deliberately left him by himself in an empty room . |
| 23 | Because what 's the point in doing no matter how good you think you 're doing , what 's the point of doing it for yourself in the living room , you want er everybody to listen to it . |
| 24 | Must see it for myself in a public space . |
| 25 | Everyone knows that , and the Israelites discovered it for themselves in the wilderness . |
| 26 | Quite apart from all the pictures in the papers , she had seen it for herself at the presentation . |
| 27 | They probably ripped it off themselves from a Hollywood still . |
| 28 | He proposed to create an additional fund to increase the endowment and started it off himself with a donation of £1,000 . |
| 29 | He 'll have it out himself with the Venetians . ’ |
| 30 | He then produced the £15 and counted it out himself on the corner of the table , not letting the chairman or anyone else do so . |