Example sentences of "have [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He now has himself cast in the role of Satan , and I in the role of God Almighty . |
| 2 | The novelist has himself referred to the self-generating quality of these works : he seems to provide the reader with a metaphor of the construction of narrative . |
| 3 | Michael Caine stars as cat burglar Henry Clarke , a master jewel thief who has himself committed to a sanatorium for alcoholics to gain the confidence of a multi-millionaire . |
| 4 | But in addition , the strategy LDDC chose to adopt has itself contributed to the problems they now face : |
| 5 | If a society lets any considerable number of its members grow up mere children , incapable of being acted on by rational consideration of distant motives , society has itself to blame for the consequences . |
| 6 | Oh yes , attached to it , and you 've just had yourself taped by the way . |
| 7 | Having himself come from a close family he did not at first regard his wife 's involvement with Chloe as unusual . |
| 8 | With remarks like ‘ Ah well , that never did me any harm ; I have gone through worse ’ , he would brush aside his colleagues ' explorations as irrelevant , yet hint at having himself suffered as a child . |
| 9 | The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ . |
| 10 | Speaking in Yemen 's capital , Sana'a , as the US secretary of state , Warren Christopher , held talks in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait , he warned that Israel 's prime minister , Yitzhak Rabin , whom Mr Christopher is scheduled to meet today , ‘ will only have himself to blame for the crazy escalation of terrorism against our Palestinian people ’ . |
| 11 | I will take it easy and I will have myself checked by a doctor . |
| 12 | The first litter of the year , rabbits born in February , will have themselves reproduced by the autumn so the rabbit has , in fact , a quite awesome reproductive ability . |
| 13 | Ever a proponent of parliamentary freedom of speech , in 1621 Alford protested against the ‘ eyes over him to observe ’ , but refused to have himself cleared by the House at the end of the session : ‘ God forbid that snares should be laid for mens words … |
| 14 | But Tolkien 's censure , written from the standpoint of one who had himself hardened in a sentimental devotion to the religion of his boyhood , must not be accepted without qualifications . |
| 15 | This intention was warmly supported by John Whitgift , the Archbishop of Canterbury , who had himself engaged in a spirited controversy with the leading contemporary Puritan theologian Thomas Cartwright . |
| 16 | Archbishop Egbert of Trier had himself represented on the first page of a book of liturgical gospel readings and in a psalter as if he were a Christ-like emperor seated in majesty . |
| 17 | The contravener could not be made liable under section 6(2) except to the extent of the money or property he had himself received from the investor . |
| 18 | More than that : he had himself sprung from the upper working class and naturally despised as unclean the lower working class : his life was made a misery by their proximity , and he longed for them to be evicted or murder each other in one of their not infrequent rows . |
| 19 | Max had himself wanked off the other day in a deserted section among some ruins and said it was very good . |
| 20 | The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ . |
| 21 | Mack Sennett had come from a New England working-class background and he had himself worked as a plumber 's mate . |
| 22 | Mr Shamir , besieged by his party 's hawks , refused to accept America 's terms for holding Israeli-Palestinian talks in Cairo to prepare the election he had himself proposed for the occupied West Bank and Gaza . |
| 23 | By the mid-19th century the Machine Age had arrived with a vengeance , which was only fitting , since that Age had itself begun in the west of Scotland . |
| 24 | By early January 1945 , observers in the Stuttgart area were pointing out that Mein Kampf was being — rather belatedly — cited to prove that Germany had itself to blame for the war , that Hitler 's expansionist aims which he had laid down twenty years earlier were the cause of the war , and that it was therefore clear that ‘ the Führer has worked for war from the very beginning ’ . |
| 25 | Neither the servants nor the king were amused by Pecham 's decree ; nor indeed were some bishops who had themselves risen to the episcopate on a mounting tide of benefices with and without cure of souls , and who were even now rewarding their own diocesan officers with a plurality of cures . |
| 26 | As a result , because they saw descent groups as enlarged families , something which Marx and Engels had themselves done in The German Ideology , but which they later emphatically rejected , Marx saw writers such as Maine arguing that monogamy , the subjugation of women , the nuclear family and private property were ineluctable basic principles in the nature of man . |
| 27 | Janet Preshous played short tape-recordings of Mr Alf Shakespeare , Miss Molly Puckle and Mr Sid Cadwallader recalling the Railway 's heyday and those present , may of whom had themselves travelled on the line , shared their memories . |
| 28 | In July of 1982 , during the Israeli siege of west Beirut , I had myself prowled through the archives to try and discover the political roots of the Lebanese Phalange , Israel 's latest ally in its war against the Palestinians . |
| 29 | With the passage of time , however , the owning institutions have themselves grown to the point where the costs and risks are something they can manage for themselves , at which point the freedom and other advantages of sole ownership have taken over . |
| 30 | However , although agencies take a lot of the work out of finding an employee , and can be particularly useful if interviewer(s) are part of a voluntary committee which has limited time to devote to the task of appointing new staff , they have the disadvantage that you are limited in your choice by the number of people who have themselves registered with the agency . |