Example sentences of "[adj] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could bind that ourselves at next to no cost . |
| 2 | I 'm often asked ‘ Could n't we have done this ourselves without Doctus ? ’ |
| 3 | We saw this ourselves during the filming of a television sequence on the laying behaviour of the cuckoo . |
| 4 | But the literal Levi is a writer who has his own way of interesting himself in the contrasts which have been attributed to Babel . |
| 5 | Mme Cresson 's first speech in the Assemblée Nationale as Prime Minister made it clear that the President had asked her to form a government for specific policy objectives , defined by him , and Mitterrand underlined this himself in his broadcast to the nation the night of the change of government . |
| 6 | Of course he had wondered this himself in the past . |
| 7 | One comes across a man who resigned his post because of the grief occasioned by the death of a son ; or another who , from disappointed expectations , turned to drugs and thereby unfitted himself for the offices he coveted . |
| 8 | Charley was high himself by then . |
| 9 | A figure in brown detached itself from the shadows , reached into the bin with a look of disgust on his face , and pocketed the crumpled paper without reading it . |
| 10 | From right beside Lawton something huge detached itself from the shadows . |
| 11 | And on the M forty itself at junction two there 's a contraflow now in operation with two narrow lanes only in both directions and you 'll also find the westbound entry slip road closed . |
| 12 | On the M forty itself between junctions four and five , that 's the stretch between High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , it 's down to two narrow lanes in both directions , with a contraflow system for a short stretch about midway between the two junctions , and at times , it 's down to single line traffic . |
| 13 | The M forty itself between junctions four and five , that 's between High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , there are two narrow lanes in both directions and a contraflow running for a short stretch about midway between the two junctions , there 's also down to single line traffic at times . |
| 14 | ( 1 ) As he was obliged to do , the charging officer ( at a time when the Director was already interesting herself in the matter ) had told the applicant that he was not obliged to say anything ; yet only two weeks later the Serious Fraud Office was warning the applicant that he was going to be interviewed under compulsory powers ; and it was not much longer still before the office formally put him on notice that he would be asked questions which he would be compelled to answer on pain of punishment . |
| 15 | She did not really care whether people listened or not ; she was interested herself in what she was saying , and she was quite happy to potter about from bench to bench watching people writing their diaries when they should have been writing up their experiments . |
| 16 | The British themselves at the end of the talks conceded the pre-eminence of the Standing Group . |
| 17 | Having found a food-source in the evening , they will fly straight back to it the following morning , still guiding themselves by the sun even though it is now in the east and not the west . |
| 18 | Junior naval officers were nominally ratings , for a midshipman was a warrant officer in contrast to the army equivalents , the ensign of foot or cornet of cavalry , who enjoyed commissioned rank , but it was for that reason that the Admiralty did not monopolise first appointments in the fleet , only interesting themselves in appointments at the rank of lieutenant or above . |
| 19 | ‘ I have seen some myself on Main Street around the bins and even on window sills . |
| 20 | ‘ I have seen some myself on Main Street around the bins and even on window sills . |
| 21 | ‘ I have seen some myself on Main Street around the bins and even on window sills . |
| 22 | It is up to you whether you allow him or her to call you as being late or early ; I like to do this myself from the back of the boat . |
| 23 | The ticket provides for first class return rail travel , but if you wish to make seat reservations or book sleepers , you must arrange this yourself through your travel agent or directly with British Rail and pay any extra charges . |
| 24 | In 1629 the Tsar Mikhail severely reproved Louis XIII himself for failing to use his full title in official letters and warned him that " We can not approve your habit of wishing to be our friend and yet denying and taking from us the titles and qualities which almighty God has given us and which we so justly possess . " |
| 25 | Burun uncoiled himself in a single elastic stretch of his torso , and he stood up . |
| 26 | He had never felt like that himself towards any woman , but he knew that such a feeling must be love . |
| 27 | Dyson became quite unlike himself in his dealings with Morris . |
| 28 | Innocent III himself by the bull " Vineam Domini " of April 1213 summoned a great council to meet at the Lateran in Rome on 1 November 1215 to be known as the Fourth Lateran Council . |
| 29 | It is as though he is amazing himself with his own lust . |
| 30 | He had made Huddersfield a great club , and in so doing established himself as a unique figure , the first of the modern soccer managers . |