Example sentences of "by [pn reflx] in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If they 'd murdered four thousand Danuese but said three thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine had been killed by ourselves in the Danuese Civil War , then it meant they had killed only one .
2 Once upon a time there was a white cloud which drifted all by itself in the clear blue sky .
3 So Rosalba dipped the hook , looped the stitch , drew out the thread , and laughed all by herself in the cool dark room .
4 A hollow-eyed Maltote had taken a strangely exhausted Ranulf off to their own lodgings so the clerk and his wife had dined by themselves in the small hall below and spent the rest of the time here in their bedchamber .
5 I ca n't think of a time when I would be going by myself in the near future .
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