Example sentences of "he [conj] herself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The finished text will , in appearance , be of a professional standard with all that that implies for the child 's image of him or herself as a writer . |
| 2 | If the terms survive the drafting process the resultant consent order will be not only clear , but specific and any party binding him or herself to it will know precisely what has been accepted and what is the commitment . |
| 3 | The authorities tend to show that if a test is bodily invasive and/or unpleasant or dangerous then the court will not stay an action until the plaintiff submits him or herself to the test . |
| 4 | Gradually society 's standards become internalised and an individual becomes his or her own source of rewards and punishments ; for example congratulating him or herself for being polite and feeling guilty for being rude . |
| 5 | He or she is well within range and unable to defend him or herself with one or both hands . |
| 6 | The person who is terrified of storms , while restraining him or herself from hiding in the hall cupboard , will still give off an aura of anxiety to a child who will then come automatically to associate fear with the sound of thunder . |
| 7 | A convert to Judaism has to immerse him or herself in a mikva . |
| 8 | The questions on self-care at this age enquire about the child 's ability to dress and feed him or herself in readiness for school . |
| 9 | It is of little value to a child if he or she can express him or herself in words but is unable to write in a legible hand . |
| 10 | Under the Finsinger and Vogelsang scheme , the manager is able to capture virtually all the increase in social benefits for him or herself in the form of a bonus in other words the social return is very narrowly distributed . |
| 11 | I feel that it shows itself in the contrast between the child 's — we 're talking about children for the moment , although obviously there are dyslexic adults — it shows itself in the contrast between the person 's ability to express him or herself in words and their ability to put it down on paper and to read it off paper , and it 's this contrast which often arouses one 's suspicions that there might be some problem and , having gone into it a little , we find that it stems from a failure of the sensory motor system — the brain is n't processing the information it 's receiving through the ear and eye . |
| 12 | But such an individual usually defines him or herself against a body of people who are meant to be homogeneous and standard-issue . |