Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] had [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mannaia seem to have taken care to propose people who were indeed from the active lineages but who lived in Tazarbu , and were therefore not personally involved in the conflict with Awlad Amira : while insisting on the principle of unrelenting solidarity , they tacitly mitigated the provocation by proposing candidates who had themselves not been active in the dispute . |
| 2 | He was a dear , lively little man with the bluest of blue eyes who had himself became a fanatical Anglophile , devoting his life until well into his eighties to the furtherance of Anglo-German relations ; and I was proud to be asked to give one of the brief tributes to him at his memorial service at the German Embassy . |
| 3 | In Syria , which then included present-day Lebanon , the people were tribes without a country , in many cases the inheritors of great religious schisms , often dissidents who had themselves been drawn to the mountains of Lebanon by the physical protection which the terrain afforded them . |
| 4 | But curiously enough , such articulate recognition of the educational significance of the manyattas was exceptional , though administrators often behaved and wrote in ways which hinted at an implicit acknowledgement of the similarity between what went on in a Masai manyatta and what went on in the English boarding schools they had themselves attended . |
| 5 | While it would be nice to imagine an alternative history in which either Miss Black or Miss Irwin succeeded in organizing the women compositors , who then ended up with a reading-room full of the encyclopaedias they had themselves typeset , it was not to be . |
| 6 | The same answer I have got from several distinguished persons who had themselves had a particular pleasure in planting trees and plants with their own hands . |
| 7 | The Labour Party , which had played a central part in achieving educational change through Circular 10/65 ( see page 15 ) , had become more and more doubtful about the political wisdom of some of the changes it had itself pioneered . |
| 8 | Ball had come to distrust the arguments he had himself encountered in London in 1965 . |
| 9 | Neither the servants nor the king were amused by Pecham 's decree ; nor indeed were some bishops who had themselves risen to the episcopate on a mounting tide of benefices with and without cure of souls , and who were even now rewarding their own diocesan officers with a plurality of cures . |
| 10 | Esther 's mind moved quickly , apparently at random ; she had a habit of introducing subjects and growing bored , within minutes , of the interchanges she had herself provoked . |
| 11 | When Dr Friedler injected morphine into the offspring of mouse fathers who had themselves breathed nitrous oxide , the body temperature of the offspring dropped less than was expected . |
| 12 | As I understood more about Lebanon I had felt sympathy for them , seen them as victims who had themselves experienced terrible deprivation . |