Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [pn reflx] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alan saw that she herself stroked the back of the child 's head rhythmically with her right hand . |
| 2 | that you yourself initiated the violence … |
| 3 | But the women know that they themselves made the changes happen . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes … and although he himself wanted the contemplative life , he was drawn out into the world and given the episcopate of Strathclyde , at Glasgow , when he was twenty-five years old . |
| 5 | Another disc started , Herr Hocher placing it on the record-player with his own hands , the result being a foxtrot played by a Russian orchestra , and he himself took the floor with Fräulein Renn , the pair of them going through what seemed to the young people weirdly funny gyrations together . |
| 6 | John Baring 's father had been from 1882 senior partner in the merchant bank of Baring Brothers , and he himself joined the firm on leaving Cambridge , served his apprenticeship as a clerk , travelled widely in North and South America , and was made a full partner early in 1890 . |
| 7 | David Howard 's uncle , J. E. Howard [ q.v. ] did much original research on the chemistry of cinchona alkaloids , and he himself pursued the same line of enquiry . |
| 8 | And he himself covered the entire costs ( of $300 ) , and did most of the distribution and selling ( on the campus , in the local cafés , in bookstores and so on , aided by a mini-advertising campaign in the McGill paper ) . |
| 9 | It held that s.47 could be committed indirectly : " A defendant who pours a dangerous substance into a machine just as truly assaults the next user of the machine as if he himself switched the machine on . " |
| 10 | But she herself drew the line at prostitution . |
| 11 | Henry VII intended to have the remains reinterred in the new chapel but he himself died the day after its consecration and no one else bothered themselves with Queen Katherine 's corpse . |
| 12 | But she had to step down at one stage because she herself won the top prize of the day — and could n't present it to herself ! |
| 13 | " My friends were saying , " Well done for making the cut " , while I myself saw the next two rounds as some form of punishment . |
| 14 | Eleanor sent Richard and Geoffrey to join their brother at the French King 's court while she herself summoned the Poitevins to arms . |
| 15 | Just as a rector would put in a vicar or curate to care for the souls in his parish , or a landlord would employ a bailiff or steward to manage his estates , so an officer would appoint a deputy to conduct the business of the office , usually for a small pittance , while he himself enjoyed the bulk of the proceeds . |
| 16 | Mrs Whitehouse viewed these programmes as having no redeeming qualities whatsoever , and it was not long before she herself became the subject of a satirical programme in her own right . |
| 17 | Salt-burning at Droitwich was confined to the six months Midsummer — Christmas — to keep up the price , Leland was told , though he himself thought the real motive was to conserve wood , since the exhaustion of supplies nearby obliged the salters to buy it from as far away as Worcester , Bromsgrove , Alvechurch and Alcester . |