Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] that [pron] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The landed gentry planted for their grandchildren avenues of hardwood that they themselves would never see . |
| 2 | She had succeeded in putting Luke out of her thoughts by concentrating purely on each present moment , each new impression , with the same degree of single-mindedness that he himself was capable of , and with a sense of pleasant anticipation she studied her map and set out to see some of the art treasures . |
| 3 | Richards saw that Woolley was trying to do more than train them , and lead them , and pass on the lessons of experience : he was also struggling to turn each of them into the kind of person that he himself had become . |
| 4 | Instead , having conducted a further searching examination , he set me to the cataloguing of the little rituals , those magical forms of thought that I myself had developed in order to cope with the stress of eidesis . |
| 5 | Above all , they educated and eventually apprenticed young paupers , ensuring in theory that they themselves should not in turn need poor relief in adulthood ; thus Shoreditch had a so-called Nursery at Enfield specifically for the care and education of destitute children . |
| 6 | For a while she behaved wisely or cunningly — by allowing her ministers to give formal recognition to the ways of the reformed church on condition that she herself was allowed to worship in the old way in the privacy of her own chapel at Holyrood . |