Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | God has a way on retreats such as this of bringing home to us the challenge of a first-order question : ‘ Do you love me in the way Mary loved me and allowed herself to be used for my mission ? ’ |
| 2 | The men surged round him and jostled themselves to a standstill . |
| 3 | It is tempting to explain the startling developments which duly took place in Russian domestic affairs in the second half of the 1850s and the first half of the 1860s by saying that the tsar recognized the extent of the difficulties which confronted him and applied himself to resolving them . |
| 4 | Creatures often seem to have gone out of their way to find him and display themselves to him . |
| 5 | But he followed closely behind her and presented himself to her mother with another of the staccato nods he had learned on the parade ground . |
| 6 | Erm , you could take the as one unit and say , but now a man , wishing to be another , approached that man , and when he found us , for we were not outside the all , he wound himself round us and attached himself to that man who was then each one of us . |