Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [pron] [be] [art] " in BNC.

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1 She did not know if she herself were a part , a cause of it .
2 Walkers pour over National Trust , Forestry Commission and Nature Conservancy information leaflets showing nature trails , with growing scepticism , not realising that they themselves are the problem .
3 And Pauline Brown , who learned to Be Prepared when she herself was a Guide , says buyers should be ready for a raunchy read .
4 Yet the practising Christian remains as ignorant as his predecessors of centuries ago ; and he subscribes essentially to the same simplistic accounts he heard when he himself was a child .
5 my brother who I was very close to went to the doctor and , instantly he , pres , er prescribed Tamazapam tablets for me , knowing that I myself am a single parent so I have a responsibility .
6 This exclusion of higher education from consideration by sociologists of education must in part be due to the fact that higher education is not compulsory ; it is perhaps difficult to argue that something which is a matter of choice can in any sense be repressive .
7 But I I think that it it is a matter which is legitimately it should be legitimately included within the the structure plan as an important factor .
8 In ‘ The Mistaken Lover ’ Leapor shows Strephon feebly criticizing his wife 's appearance ; in this poem , Leapor goes much further by asserting that she herself is an ugly woman , a slattern , and almost dares the gentleman to stand by his favourable opinion of her intelligence .
9 With charming naivety , they do not imagine that they themselves are the source of it : they behave as they do when they see a frightened horse , becoming agitated and desirous of flight .
10 The problems of crofting may be insoluble in terms of practical politics , but , if we look at them in the right way , we may find that they themselves are a resource .
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