Example sentences of "[be] [pn reflx] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe she had n't quite been herself at the time . |
| 2 | Of Dustin 's performance , though , Clive Barnes in The New York Times wrote , ‘ He has the strange ability to be himself on the stage . |
| 3 | Never did Pétain cease to be himself in the presence of the troops . |
| 4 | Entering into consciousness — an obscure phrase — meant trying to be oneself on the canvas , without the props of a single familiar reference , and thus to be free of rhetoric , history , convention , other people , safety , the past . |
| 5 | Seventeen fathers were themselves in the printing trade — mostly compositors , with a sprinkling of bookbinders and machinemen — again all skilled . |
| 6 | ‘ Members of the community are themselves in the course of events engaged in a great deal of informal social control , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ Ministers have not only not spoken out against this irresponsibility but now can not speak persuasively against these boardroom excesses because so many ex-Cabinet Ministers are themselves among the beneficiaries of these excesses , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The other is ourselves as the stranger . |
| 9 | There is a good deal of evidence to show , however , that industrial capitalism places women on the periphery of the economy , and for women in a Third World country which is itself on the periphery of a world economy , the situation is even more difficult . |
| 10 | The nuts themselves are not nuts at all but seeds , arranged rather like the segments of an orange in a whole fruit ( properly a capsule ) that is itself about the size of an orange . |
| 11 | NEUE MITTE is in the centre of the town of Oberhausen ( population 225,000 ) , which is itself in the state of North Rhine Westphalia , the largest of the German states both in population ( 17.5 million ) and economic power , where it accounts for over a quarter of Germany 's gross national product . |
| 12 | One approach to the relationship between bureaucracy and class is to say that the bureaucratic stratum is itself in the process of becoming a class in almost every sense of the word , and the dominant class at that . |
| 13 | By the middle of the century Arkesilas was himself on the run , fleeing from Cyrene via Euesperides to the west , where he was assassinated . |
| 14 | The story has it that young de Malleray , a second-lieutenant in the same regiment , having heard the first news but not the sequel , was himself on the way up to the line that evening , and encountered his father 's Colonel . |
| 15 | The disturbances on the borders of Brecon , whether officially encouraged or not , had grown to such proportions that the King had despatched his brother the Earl of Cornwall to the march in haste to try and suppress them , and was himself in the act of setting out from Windsor to join him there . |
| 16 | He was himself before the journalists — which the General had n't been — and because of that he came over well , that is unaffectedly . |
| 17 | There were also many more limited ventures such as Pearson 's Fresh Air Fund , established in 1896 by Arthur Pearson , the founder of The Daily Express , to provide country holidays for city children , and this was itself among the inspirations for the fresh air philosophies of Baden-Powell 's Boy Scouts launched in 1908 . |