Example sentences of "[coord] herself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In agreement with the judge we thus conclude that as a matter of substance and reality each of the two parties to the agreements placed himself or herself under merely individual obligations … |
| 2 | The schedule designer must for every be putting himself or herself into the respondents ' shoes and trying to imagine what it would be like to be asked this question by a stranger who just turned up a few minutes ago out of the blue . |
| 3 | Undoubtedly one of the best ways the overseas student has of seeing what is required in British theatre training is to apply for one of the summer schools offered by the drama schools , and find out what it 's all about before committing him- or herself to a long and expensive stay . |
| 4 | A body known as the G10 Commission had the authority to decide , either ex officio or on application by a person believing himself or herself to be under surveillance , ‘ on both the legality of and the necessity for the [ surveillance ] measures ’ . |
| 5 | If the terms survive the drafting process the resultant consent order will be not only clear , but specific and any party binding him or herself to it will know precisely what has been accepted and what is the commitment . |
| 6 | The sufferer from anorexia may be told by others that he or she is thin but has a distorted body image and believes himself or herself to be " fat " or " normal " regardless of body weight . |
| 7 | The speaker who uses it feels himself or herself to be stating , with an explicitness not found in the merely qualifying adjective , even when it is ascriptive , that the property expressed does hold of the entity identified by the whole noun phrase ; an inevitable concomitant is that the postnominal adjective must be to a certain extent salient in the situation where it is used . |
| 8 | The authorities tend to show that if a test is bodily invasive and/or unpleasant or dangerous then the court will not stay an action until the plaintiff submits him or herself to the test . |
| 9 | Under the general law a surety is expected to satisfy himself or herself of the extent of the risk proposed to be undertaken . |
| 10 | On the other hand , the Court in terms says that a worker who decides not to transfer deprives him- or herself of the protection of the Directive . |
| 11 | Gradually society 's standards become internalised and an individual becomes his or her own source of rewards and punishments ; for example congratulating him or herself for being polite and feeling guilty for being rude . |
| 12 | A family member who did not react to the craziness of Chemical Dependency or other addictive disease would be a very strange , unreactive , person who might well be considered to be at least odd if not ill or crazy himself or herself for not reacting . |
| 13 | This interviewer sees himself or herself as the natural successor to Sir Robin Day . |
| 14 | The finished text will , in appearance , be of a professional standard with all that that implies for the child 's image of him or herself as a writer . |
| 15 | In this context , the youngster must come to terms with his or her changing and changed body ; must try out the precepts , attitudes and ideals of childhood against the demands of the transitional and later groups among which existence now lies ; must establish himself or herself as an individual with rights and responsibilities and with a unique and largely self-determinant personality ; and must cope with feelings and impulses which have previously been only of the vaguest and most unformulable nature . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , anyone can describe himself or herself as a homoeopath . |
| 17 | He or she is well within range and unable to defend him or herself with one or both hands . |
| 18 | This is not the same as being someone to whom other people often bring their problems ; that does not guarantee the instinctive knowledge of whether something is real or merely a " try-on " , or whether something that is being glosssed over is really something that should be dug out and gone into in depth , or whether the time has come to say and do nothing other than give encouragement to the sufferer to work something out for himself or herself with the assistance of other sufferers in the group . |
| 19 | But such an individual usually defines him or herself against a body of people who are meant to be homogeneous and standard-issue . |
| 20 | Any reader can , in any case , place himself or herself within the deictic centre by adopting an appropriate psychological distance towards those who lose their lives at war . |
| 21 | It is , or should be , an hour in which the pupil gradually comes to learn to defend himself or herself in argument , to have confidence in his or her own prose style , to grow up intellectually . |
| 22 | A convert to Judaism has to immerse him or herself in a mikva . |
| 23 | The questions on self-care at this age enquire about the child 's ability to dress and feed him or herself in readiness for school . |
| 24 | If we accept , with Aristotle , that a citizen by true definition is someone who involves himself or herself in public or community affairs , then that person is ‘ active ’ . |
| 25 | It is an important part of your role as an interviewer to help the candidate relax enough to show himself or herself in as accurate and good a light as possible . |
| 26 | It is of little value to a child if he or she can express him or herself in words but is unable to write in a legible hand . |
| 27 | Under the Finsinger and Vogelsang scheme , the manager is able to capture virtually all the increase in social benefits for him or herself in the form of a bonus in other words the social return is very narrowly distributed . |
| 28 | Each Member shall feel himself or herself in honour bound as a private individual to abstain from hostile or hurtful criticism , either of the doings of the Society or the individual Members of the same . |
| 29 | I feel that it shows itself in the contrast between the child 's — we 're talking about children for the moment , although obviously there are dyslexic adults — it shows itself in the contrast between the person 's ability to express him or herself in words and their ability to put it down on paper and to read it off paper , and it 's this contrast which often arouses one 's suspicions that there might be some problem and , having gone into it a little , we find that it stems from a failure of the sensory motor system — the brain is n't processing the information it 's receiving through the ear and eye . |
| 30 | With Gide and many others in mind , Said observes that virtually no European writer who wrote on or travelled to the Orient in the period after 1800 exempted himself or herself from a quest for sexual experience unobtainable in Europe : |