Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [noun] [pn reflx] " in BNC.

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1 She may find it difficult to concentrate or interest herself much in anything or anybody .
2 This account is now generally accepted , although some historians still suggest that Elizabeth herself would have preferred to have reintroduced the 1549 Prayer Book , had she been able to enlist any support for this move from her lay and clerical advisers at court .
3 Beth had been surprised to know that Cissie herself had been thinking along those very same lines , and it only told her that she was right about Maisie 's children — they were growing up fast .
4 It should not be forgotten that hazards themselves have geographical distributions yet there has been little effort in the UK to develop public domain databases .
5 Rhee explained the failures to control inflation as the fault of his incompetent ministers but Muccio maintained that Rhee himself was to blame .
6 And some say that Jesus himself visited Glastonbury , after his resurrection , living for a while in a house where Glastonbury Abbey now stands .
7 So much is clear ; can we go further , and say that Otto himself went to Rome to be crowned in order to complete his pilgrimage in Charlemagne 's footsteps , that this was his chief motive ?
8 I will go further , and say that crime itself has to be viewed from the same aspect of society as a balance — a balance that can be lost , like the physiological or chemical balance in an organism , in which cases the organism is destroyed , but a balance which is always there , whether being gained , maintained or lost .
9 This is disappointing for such a theoretically sensitive technique , but we found that tissue itself potently inhibits the polymerase chain reaction if not adequately purified , and despite our spiking experiment we may not have abolished sample inhibition .
10 In this article , I will demonstrate that O'Keeffe herself was instrumental in inspiring this new voice in the criticism ; that in response to the reviews she received on the occasion of her first major exhibition in New York in 1923 , she set about to persuade critics to define her and her art on her won terms .
11 Scobie is surely right when , with regard to Let Us Compare Mythologies he says that the title ‘ seems to indicate that Cohen himself regarded the religious sense as the primary one ’ — which in The Spice-Box Of Earth becomes completely explicit and even urgent .
12 There is also a considerable amount of evidence to indicate that patients themselves see communication as a crucial part of their care .
13 ‘ Especially to those under the enchantment of love , ’ he answered , and Fabia experienced a need to discover if Ven himself knew or had ever known that enchantment .
14 The Doe regime collapsed and Doe himself was killed in September .
15 Kochen himself mentioned that orders had frozen and users themselves calculated that DEC had lost millions of dollars along with credibility and goodwill .
16 But in the end the housewife has to encourage and reward herself .
17 A final section asks how we shall all know whether LMS itself is a success .
18 When he realized that Hassan himself would not tell the Shah to go , Marenches offered to do it himself .
19 It will have been gathered from what has gone before that the non-gonococcal infections are considerably less easy both to diagnose and to treat than gonorrhoea itself .
20 By saying this , I am accepting that Geraldine herself may well have engineered the engagement .
21 Such products are known by the general term ultramarinos , ‘ from across the ocean ’ , and to emphasise that Mariana herself is also an ultramarina , she is often accompanied in Gironella 's tableaux by tins of sardines .
22 The United States argued that Nicaragua itself had previously represented that it , Nicaragua , had no binding declaration under Article 36 ( 2 ) and was estopped from now asserting the validity of its declaration .
23 The French psychoanalyst , Jacques Lacan , argued that Freud himself ( as well as virtually all the psychoanalysts who revised Freud 's theories ) never managed to escape fully from the assumption of an already existing gendered subjectivity which entered into the Oedipal situation .
24 Manners retorted that this had taken place in February and Palmerston was in no position to criticize him for acting independently as he had heard that Palmerston himself had instructed the architect to prepare designs in a different style without consulting the House .
25 We conclude that age itself is not a contraindication to the performance of restorative proctocolectomy with pouch anal anastomosis .
26 This seems to me to represent good grounds for believing that functionalism itself may well be true .
27 Not that I 've ever felt that way myself ’ He abandoned philosophical speculation to enquire : ‘ Ever done any soldiering , Herr Richter ?
28 This assumes that girls themselves want to do this , unlike Kate whose response to being given contraceptive pills by her mother was to put them down the toilet .
29 You have to remember that electricity itself was a new , exciting thing .
30 A sign — and it is important to remember that Christmas itself is only a sign .
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