Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not return to England as the advocate of a new political ideal , but as a man who was himself under a new obligation of obedience . |
| 2 | In drama we act as if we were someone else , or as if we were ourselves in an other situation . |
| 3 | Surely it could not be that , whilst they were classifying the laws governing the physical world , they were themselves under no moral order , but existing in a chaos of random motion ? |
| 4 | Although it was itself of a rather fetid awfulness , The Damned prefigured almost all of the conventions of the nostalgia movie : the fusing of public history with a private , intimate drama ; the ubiquity of ‘ decadence ’ and deviant sexuality ; the scratchy suggestiveness of ‘ cheap ’ popular music on the soundtrack ; the transformation of the past into a glittering art deco exhibition of costume and design ; and the constant reference to movie mythology . |
| 5 | The Grammar School in Stockport , however , avoided the extinction which other schools had suffered , for during this turbulent period it was itself in a sort of Limbo . |
| 6 | Indeed , despite his disillusion with the present reality and underneath the modest ambition he communicated to Rohde , he cherished an almost missionary hope that if and when he was himself in a position to exert influence , the future of his subject might look altogether different . |
| 7 | He was himself before the journalists — which the General had n't been — and because of that he came over well , that is unaffectedly . |