Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pron] be [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Paisley drove Doherty to his first meeting with Murdoch and Marshall , there is no evidence that he was himself involved in the discussions . |
| 2 | The knowledge that you are yourself , and the world may like it or loathe it , but here you are . |
| 3 | I 'm not certain why I should remember this unless it was perhaps my first , unacknowledged , awareness that he was himself and not another ; and that that self was , in a dignified , quiet way , reaching out to me . |
| 4 | I propose to devote a whole chapter to so-called ‘ association copies ’ , partly for the selfish reason that I am myself devoted to them and partly because , looking at them as objectively as I can , they seem to me to offer one of the most satisfying branches of book-collecting , especially to anyone with the slightest sense of history . |
| 5 | Forcing a litigant to settle with a judge who had usurped jurisdiction , in order to avoid still higher costs in a superior court , was not likely to have enhanced the popularity of the regality court of Glasgow , and , quite apart from the fact that he was himself injured by Sproull 's actions , Montrose had little choice but to remove the bailie-depute at the first opportunity . |
| 6 | Perhaps I take a special pleasure in Cold Comfort Farm from the fact that I was myself brought up in a rural setting , surrounded by wild-eyed manic depressives of the Starkadder school , while I was reading the works of D.H.Lawrence and F.R.Leavis , whose loam-laden versions of country life did n't quite chime with mine . |