Example sentences of "[to-vb] himself [coord] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person who seeks to protect himself or herself from doubt in their belief , Newman argued , is like the person who , in order to be protected from the risk of illness , never ventures outside the home . |
| 2 | Under the general law a surety is expected to satisfy himself or herself of the extent of the risk proposed to be undertaken . |
| 3 | A more important point is that passages of this sort , spliced as they are with images like the lizard from the immediate foreground of Pound 's tent inside the wire-mesh cage of the prison camp , do not come into being out of the free associations of idle reverie , though in these Pisan cantos Pound exploits the illusion of that , as Joyce did in Ulysses when he pretended to transport himself and us into the mind of Leopold Bloom . |
| 4 | It is , or should be , an hour in which the pupil gradually comes to learn to defend himself or herself in argument , to have confidence in his or her own prose style , to grow up intellectually . |
| 5 | It is an important part of your role as an interviewer to help the candidate relax enough to show himself or herself in as accurate and good a light as possible . |