Example sentences of "[conj] [pn reflx] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We demand that our work should be recognised for what it is — we produce and reproduce in other people and ourselves the ability to work and go on working , we produce labour power . |
| 2 | In ancient Greek myth Harlequin made his first appearance as Hermes ( or Mercury ) , the messenger of the gods and himself the god of all animals and travellers . |
| 3 | As he said to Count Walewski , his Ambassador in London ( and himself the illegitimate son of Napoleon I ) , ‘ Mon cher , je suis pris ’ , and there seems no reason to doubt this . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Blake is my employer , ’ Charity said stiffly , saving Matthew the embarrassment of having to come up with a reply , and herself the embarrassment of having to hear it . |
| 5 | ‘ For people like McQuaid and myself the war was the best part of our lives . |
| 6 | This is a little trick with which my daughter Carla amazed both my elder son and myself the first time I saw it . |
| 7 | I 'll tell you this — if they had tried that on with the Liverpool team of the mid-1960s that included Ron Yeats , Ian St John , Gerry Byrne and myself the match would never have taken place . |
| 8 | He then explained why he had sent Daisy and myself the flowers in the first place . |
| 9 | So it was the bait piled in by J.J. and myself the first night of a season in the early 1970s . |
| 10 | Jacob was no longer a trickster in the Joseph story , but himself the victim of the duplicity of his sons who convinced him that his favourite Joseph was dead . |
| 11 | The idea that the only way of coping with the desuetude of the age , its profound certainty that everything has been said already , is by openly proclaiming this fact as itself the new fact , the idea that the only way of selling your article as original is to declare that it is repro , seems to run up against an ethical objection in a writer like Palandri , however sophisticated his own literary apparatus undoubtedly is . |
| 12 | He formulated in haunting terms the longing expressed by Platonists for the source of all beauty : " late have I loved Thee , O Beauty so ancient and so new " , but he recognised this longing as itself the working of God 's gift of love in man — in theological terms , the grace of the Holy Spirit . |