Example sentences of "[conj] they [be] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When recently I asked an enthusiastic practitioner to test the technique in maths , although they were themselves enthusiastic about language , I received confirmation of insecurity , of a self-confessed distraction from the task of teaching in favour of essentially a technician-type reliance on the scheme , and a domination of the teacher by the process of recording progress . |
| 2 | Most drama books write of children ‘ playing a part ’ , ‘ playing someone else ’ , ‘ taking on a character ’ , whereas what is required of children in drama ( or at least , in the dramatic playing mode ) is that they be themselves , functioning in whatever way the situation demands of them . |
| 3 | Those who teach and train children must constantly remind themselves that they were themselves once in the position of the children , and the children will in their turn , one day be in the position of the teachers . |
| 4 | This means that the old people would be left with the abusers unless they wanted to go into care or unless they were themselves mentally impaired . |
| 5 | There are a number of tortured perspectives on how to get round this problem , but they are themselves fraught with problems . |
| 6 | Children who come into care through the courts are committed to the care of the local authority either because they are themselves offenders , or because they are the victims of offences or because they are found in need of care . |
| 7 | To help their children benefit from schooling , parents need to understand what happens in school , to appreciate that methods of teaching have changed in the 15 or 20 years since they were themselves pupils in an infant or junior classroom . |
| 8 | I 'm all alone , 'cos I think everyone 's alone , like , 'cos they 're themselves and they 're different from everyone else . |
| 9 | Fear of rejection by one or both parents experienced in early life will make this person seem outwardly aloof and totally in control , fiercely independent , never showing weakness to the outside world and rejecting others before they are themselves rejected . |
| 10 | This , in fact , is a relatively small total compared to the hundreds which some man-eaters killed before they were themselves removed from the earthly scene . |
| 11 | The Welshmen , crouching low and running like hares , overtook the two who led the laden horse only a matter of minutes before they were themselves overtaken . |
| 12 | The withdrawal of earlier death has been so marked that today most English people will have no direct experience of the grief of bereavement until they lose their own parents , when they are themselves well into middle age . |
| 13 | Some shaikhs saw no conflict of roles when they were themselves involved in disputes with members of their lineage , and used every means at their disposal to win an argument about , say , rights to land . |
| 14 | With the latter , each case , each murder , was a duel with a murderer who , of necessity , had to be almost as brilliantly clever as they were themselves . |