Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pron] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So good can the simulation be that the player handling the joystick receives a powerful illusion that he himself is part of the counterfeit world . |
| 2 | But equally , Gale gives no indication that he himself has understood how obviously ridiculous Lamarck 's theories of physics and chemistry were in his own day — and it was on these that his theory of evolution was based . |
| 3 | She would raise her lamp and view the lover that she herself had grown , even if this meant that she must lose him for ever . |
| 4 | For a while she behaved wisely or cunningly — by allowing her ministers to give formal recognition to the ways of the reformed church on condition that she herself was allowed to worship in the old way in the privacy of her own chapel at Holyrood . |
| 5 | The landed gentry planted for their grandchildren avenues of hardwood that they themselves would never see . |
| 6 | Parents deny their children the outdoor play that they themselves enjoyed . |
| 7 | if you actually went through the experience that they themselves were |
| 8 | For the worry that they themselves might go down the same road meant that they could see that teachers who were now ‘ like that ’ had once been enthusiastic , committed students like themselves . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ This Government is asking the long-term sick to bear an unfair burden to bale Mr Major out of the mess that he himself has created . ’ |
| 10 | In this way he forces the reader to go through the same process of retrospective illumination that he himself has undergone . |
| 11 | The attitude that you yourself hold towards your jobs in life will be reflected by those with whom you come into contact , either in business or in private life . |
| 12 | It puts into operation on a more comprehensive scale a proposal for English teaching pedagogy that I myself put forward , speculatively , as appropriate for the Indian context ( Widdowson 1968 ) . |
| 13 | Man 's discovery that he himself , like other living creatures , is born and dies must have led him intuitively to try to circumvent the relentless flux of time by seeking to perpetuate his own existence indefinitely . |
| 14 | Dahl tends to view elites as a species of potential conspiracy against the public interest ; this is one reason why he rejects the accusation that he himself is a surreptitious elitist and why he prefers to refer to ‘ polyarchy ’ . |
| 15 | They left Verdeţ unsure about how Ceauşescu would react to the miners ' insistence that he himself should come . |
| 16 | He knew the figures , the likelihood that she herself had been the victim of abuse was quite high . |
| 17 | She had succeeded in putting Luke out of her thoughts by concentrating purely on each present moment , each new impression , with the same degree of single-mindedness that he himself was capable of , and with a sense of pleasant anticipation she studied her map and set out to see some of the art treasures . |
| 18 | Indeed the silk that we ourselves spin and weave into the most luxurious of all our fabrics is unwound from the cocoon that silk-moth caterpillars weave around themselves before they start the complex process of changing into adults . |
| 19 | To the point that she herself felt distinctly out of things at first . |
| 20 | He made the mistake of attributing to the press the importance that they themselves give to newspapers and journalists . |
| 21 | The horses ' drinking-water tank had been topped up , she said , by a hosepipe from the city 's water supply during the first twenty minutes of our stop in Thunder Bay , in a procedure that she herself had supervised . |
| 22 | Richards saw that Woolley was trying to do more than train them , and lead them , and pass on the lessons of experience : he was also struggling to turn each of them into the kind of person that he himself had become . |
| 23 | She thought that her therapist would say that this was yet another example of her low self-esteem , a manifestation of her feeling that she herself was undeserving of both property and life . |
| 24 | After passage of the 1974 Act , however , the authorities had to contemplate the prospect that they themselves might be prosecuted for the polluting effluents from their sewage works . |
| 25 | Above all , they educated and eventually apprenticed young paupers , ensuring in theory that they themselves should not in turn need poor relief in adulthood ; thus Shoreditch had a so-called Nursery at Enfield specifically for the care and education of destitute children . |
| 26 | But after all the trouble that he himself had taken to be friendly , he felt so cross at the way in which Fiver had antagonized their new friends that as he passed Bigwig , he said , " Come and help me to get some sense into him . |
| 27 | It is this unvarying ubiquitous signal that we ourselves use , of course , when we take our bearings with a compass . |
| 28 | One has the sense that he himself was beached there and that one of his comforts lay in writing out his fears in order to bring his readers to the same sands where he lay struggling for air . |
| 29 | Their own anger with their mother for not being there is then attributed to her , and their fear results from believing she is in the rage that they themselves are in . |
| 30 | Instead , having conducted a further searching examination , he set me to the cataloguing of the little rituals , those magical forms of thought that I myself had developed in order to cope with the stress of eidesis . |