Example sentences of "[pron] and [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stop em and have the stuff on them . |
| 2 | I and infecting the country that you go |
| 3 | All of us are very good at blaming ourselves if things go wrong and feeling upset , but we must be fair with ourselves and take the credit when things go well . |
| 4 | ‘ We can exert ourselves and win the battle for funding for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 5 | Its methods may improve our understanding of our patients and ourselves and form the basis for behavioural changes , on which reduction of the risks of the disease still largely depend . |
| 6 | Living is never an exact science and we invariably over reach ourselves and destroy the balance of things . |
| 7 | Quickly she pulled her hand away from his and opened the car door to scramble out . |
| 8 | Nicola had stopped trying to hit Goldman ; she was wrenching her body sideways each time he grabbed her , turning away from him , away from the car , using her full weight against his and losing the contest moment by moment . |
| 9 | Much of the exercise was done in front of a mirror so that he could see for himself and correct the sag on the right side where his ribs had been removed . |
| 10 | All the different interest groups have suddenly been allowed to come out into the open and in some cases it is a question of each for himself and damn the rest . ’ |
| 11 | Louis put a hand up to the boom to steady himself and crossed the cockpit to where Gomez lay on the cockpit sole like a beached grouper . |
| 12 | He resigned himself and let the car drift back to a comfortable fifty-yard gap . |
| 13 | Fox executed the office of Secretary himself and made the Council 's Examiner , Thomas Sherer , his deputy as Clerk of the Council . |
| 14 | He then fired at Pc Kelly through the police car windscreen , and as the officer lay injured across the front seat walked up to the car , put his hand on the roof to steady himself and emptied the gun into the officer 's body . |
| 15 | Its basis appears to have been that , although himself a master of one building trade only , like other leading master builders of the period he was prepared to build a whole house ‘ by the great ’ , performing the masonry himself and subcontracting the work of the other trades ; and he evidently built up a team of craftsman associates — joiners , carpenters , painters , plasterers — whom he called upon regularly in these circumstances . |
| 16 | One it can go towards the withdrawal end of the spectrum , so that the child shuts up , withdraws , isolates himself and puts the lid on . |
| 17 | It can therefore be taught to circle if ( a ) the shepherd first makes the dog run round to the other side of the flock , and then ( b ) moves himself and repeats the exercise . |
| 18 | One of the things he was NEVER NEVER allowed to do , the most exciting of them all , was to go out through the garden gate all by himself and explore the world beyond . |
| 19 | He opened the door for her himself and dismissed the escort with a nod . |
| 20 | He nodded to himself and stroked the underside of his beard with the back of his hand . |
| 21 | Then he hailed another for himself and gave the driver the address of the Montrose . |
| 22 | Two days ago when they had carted out Menzies the minister and Fleming the young teacher from along the road at Dull and danced round them like children at a Halloween fire and stuck them up on horses , facing backwards , and paraded them past the door and down the road to Aberfeldy , he had flung a soft carrot himself and caught the man on the side of his face . |
| 23 | Penny 's book Romancing The Stars suggested that Prince Charles was finding it difficult to blend his spiritual inner values with his outer role , and that meant he was retreating further into himself and widening the gulf between himself and Diana . |
| 24 | It took several moments for him to orientate himself and wipe the sleep from his eyes . |
| 25 | It was ill fact a log hook that he had bought from somebody and changed the name . |
| 26 | The fighting was too close for firearms ; the two men went down together in the darkness and wrestled until another American could discern which was which and hit the redhead hard with the butt of his Colt . |
| 27 | The undergraduates of Magdalene used to say about their Master that he spent the morning doing nothing and spent the afternoon writing about what he had done in the morning . |
| 28 | An individual might build a local paper from nothing and retain the ownership intact . |
| 29 | But there was always them as just wanted to come and do nothing and pick the money up and that 's what they had to sort out the firms . |
| 30 | Particularly when good applicants are in short supply advertisements placed in Teachers ' Centres and nearby colleges , faculties and institutes of education cost nothing and improve the trawl . |