Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Collector had shown such enthusiasm for its hollow wonders that he himself had been tempted and misled ; he had allowed his own small stirrings of doubt , which he recognized now to have been stirrings of conscience , to be smothered . |
| 2 | Blemish is simply about creating a bad atmosphere around a person , for example , ‘ What do you think about Jane ? ’ said by someone screwing up their nose — to indicate that they themselves obviously do n't think too highly of her . |
| 3 | When he was twelve , his psychic sense blossomed and he realized that he himself was one of those whom he had learned to loathe , taught both by his personal tragedy and by the missionaries . |
| 4 | But I do n't think that he himself would see it as a failure at all . |
| 5 | On Oct. 23 Shamir announced that he himself , rather than Foreign Minister David Levi , would lead the Israeli delegation at the conference . |
| 6 | Having been reminded that the bookies ' smoke signals usually signify a lot more than just grandiose waves of their Havana cigars , Ramsden then revealed that he himself might have been inadvertantly responsible for the Travelling Light rumour . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the sixties , polls showed that , even if they believed that they themselves were doing rather well , most British people felt that their country was doing rather badly , and falling further behind foreign competitors . |
| 9 | He added that he himself must ‘ inevitably live with the knowledge that I am now more likely to develop cancer ’ . |
| 10 | Another consequence of the labelling of Impressionism and other groups by critics was that some artists naturally decided that they themselves could do the same job better than the critics . |
| 11 | ‘ How near is madness to genius ’ , said Diderot ; while Dr Johnson , confessing that he himself had often been nearly insane , commented that ‘ all power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness ’ . |
| 12 | She needed to remember that he himself had been responsible for her having had to face that terrible choice in the first place . |
| 13 | You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child . |
| 14 | I do not feel that I myself am at all psychic and I rarely dream — at least to know clearly on awakening what I have dreamed ; yet I have had in my life two dreams of foreboding . |
| 15 | They take for granted that they themselves have a name they may be called by , as well as nicknames and endearments , alongside such designations as the kid , the boy , and so on . |
| 16 | Harriet walked home wondering why she had not organised something of this sort before and marvelling at Mrs Rafferty 's complete acceptance of her own role in the community , one in which she obviously took it for granted that she herself had no need or right to ‘ a bit of a break ’ . |
| 17 | It will be clear from what I have already said that I myself do not have a Christology and am not a Christian . |
| 18 | It is tempting to adopt the view that the husband should convey " as trustee " , thus implying that he himself has not incumbered the property ( see Law of Property Act 1925 , s76(1) ( f ) , Sched 2 , Pt VI ) . |
| 19 | Where the wife takes the conveyance and requires it to be conveyed to herself and the new husband , she should convey as " trustee " ( thus implying that she herself has not encumbered the property ) as she has never had the legal title vested in her absolutely . |
| 20 | He grew very portly as an old man and although by this time he had become something of a legend to the other members of his club ( " The Hero of Krishnapur " ) , one might have thought that he himself had entirely forgotten about the siege . |
| 21 | She spoke in innocence of the fact that Knockglen had once thought that she herself might be the ideal child for them . |
| 22 | As part of the denial of their own " family disease " they may believe that they themselves or the way in which they attempt to help others is what is inadequate rather than the capacity of the primary sufferer to receive the message of recovery . |
| 23 | Additionally , the defendants had of their own accord not relied on the clause in other customer disputes , which showed that they themselves tended to regard its limitation as unreasonable . |
| 24 | Coming from teaching in the South , Basil and I found the West Riding stimulating , and I think he would have agreed that we ourselves developed . |
| 25 | On the other hand , the great majority reckoned that they themselves had taken the decision to use a particular type of credit ( regardless of whether or not they had seriously considered any other type too ) . |
| 26 | Margaret Irwin herself accepted that the lack of success was caused by " the apathy of the women themselves … the woman does not take her industrial work as seriously as a man … [ she ] does not regard it as the permanent occupation of her life " .37 Margaret Irwin 's views are not to be dismissed lightly , but it is worth noting that she herself did not approach the question with any blazing convictions about equal pay . |
| 27 | But since she had wrecked Luke 's plans for a country weekend with Lexy , and deprived him of the possibility of replacing her from the ranks of his unofficial harem , perhaps it was hardly surprising that he should demand that she herself should fill the gap . |
| 28 | Of course , anthropologists know that they themselves do not belong to cultures of this kind ; but rather to ones which present a jumble of themes , in which any impression of overall coherence is produced kaleidoscopically — that is to say , patterned arbitrarily with mirrors . |
| 29 | But the women know that they themselves made the changes happen . |
| 30 | This is probably one reason why linguists are inconsistent , making definitive claims they know that they themselves will shortly supersede . |