Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [conj] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 1832 Bald 's career becomes a catalogue of the roads , harbours , river navigations , canals , and railways designed by himself or with his advice . |
| 2 | At the beginning of the century , Dudo of St Quentin produced the argument that , since the homage of Duke Rollo of Normandy in 911 had been purely in gratitude for his baptism , it did not mean , either for himself or for his successors , that Normandy was a fief . |
| 3 | The first line is the voice of one man talking either to himself or to his friends — |
| 4 | This , indeed , is the most common defence of Derrida , whether advanced by himself or by his disciples . |
| 5 | Its primary value is obtained from the appraisal of a manager 's performance , either by the manager himself or by his superiors . |
| 6 | ( 3 ) The clerk of a licensing board shall not , himself or by his partner or clerk , act as solicitor to , or agent for , any person in any proceedings before that board or in any appellate proceedings which may result therefrom and , if any person contravenes this subsection , he shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 7 | In an action for recovery of land , any person in possession ( by himself or by his tenant ) and not named as a defendant may by leave be made a defendant on filing an ex parte application showing that he is in possession , by himself or by his tenant , and giving grounds for the application . |
| 8 | In an action for recovery of land , any person in possession ( by himself or by his tenant ) and not named as a defendant may by leave be made a defendant on filing an ex parte application showing that he is in possession , by himself or by his tenant , and giving grounds for the application . |
| 9 | Biff nodded , more to himself than to his companion . |
| 10 | ‘ By gum ! ’ he expostulated , more to himself than to his sergeant or anybody else . |
| 11 | Was it not obvious ( she was answered ) that the man felt sorrier for himself than for his wife ? |
| 12 | He tried many of them out on himself and on his family and friends , and noted the effects produced by each . |
| 13 | Sir Robert Knolles , likewise , fought both for himself and for his king . |
| 14 | Though the Swan was more sophisticated than the Queen 's Head , it was only a matter of minutes before servants , ostlers and maids were scampering all over the large and comfortable hotel to see to the minutest needs of the ‘ Honourable Member of Parliament ’ , ‘ brother to an Earl ’ , who had landed on them at an unexpectedly late hour and naturally — ‘ a Colonel as well ’ — demanded the best of everything both for himself and for his ( temporary — ‘ from Keswick ’ ) servant and his ( ‘ pale-looking ’ ) daughter . |
| 15 | Article 25 ( 1 ) of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights , subscribed by the United Kingdom in December 1948 , runs as follows : ‘ Everyone has a right to a standard of living adequate for the health and wellbeing of himself and of his family , including medical care. , |
| 16 | He cringed from that single revelation of himself and of his motive , even while knowing it was n't really true to his nature , that the instance had come , gone and never would return . |
| 17 | On the other hand there are teachers with low standards who think a mere pass at whatever grade is a feather in the cap , both of himself and of his pupil . |
| 18 | His will is an eloquent testimony of how conventional he was in his views — requiring Requiem Masses and prayers in perpetual memory of himself and of his family — and of how little he foresaw ( for how could he ? ) the changes which were to affect the church — and his bequests — during the next century with the coming of the Reformation . |
| 19 | For fourteen or fifteen years no man could have been less conscious of himself and of his own life , less informed about the world than Antoine Bloye . |
| 20 | Only a year ago the Shah had seemed to himself and to his allies to be utterly secure . |
| 21 | During the revolutionary period in France , following the fall of Louis Philippe in 1848 , Buddicom struggled valiantly to keep the railway in operation despite considerable physical danger to himself and to his family . |
| 22 | Put into precise terms , one can say that , in clinical and applied psychoanalysis , the individualistic fallacy alleges that the individual 's Oedipus complex is wholly explicable by reference to himself and to his family situation , without regard to the history of that complex or to the origins of the family and of human psychological structures as a whole . |
| 23 | an event that caused considerable anxiety to himself and to his girlfriend ( patient E22 ) who was P cepacia-negative . |
| 24 | Taken off by it in an acute , short , not often painful illness , the old man escapes those ‘ cold gradations of decay ’ so distressing to himself and to his friends . ’ |
| 25 | Rist deliberately cultivated a simple , popular style in secular particularly moralizing ) and religious verse ; he was a modest composer himself and in his earlier collections , from 1641 onward , he also enlisted the help of local musicians — including Selle in 1651 and 1655 . |
| 26 | Marx argued that the division of labour in capitalist society causes the worker to lose control over the conditions and fruits of his labour , with the result that he becomes estranged both from himself and from his fellow men . |
| 27 | The first of these stoves was constructed in 1859 , and various improvements were effected in the design up to 1887 both by himself and by his son Charles E. Cowper , whom he took into partnership shortly before his death . |
| 28 | The question Brenton appears to be asking , and it is surely as relevant to himself as to his characters , is how do you live after faith and hope have gone ? |
| 29 | That she is concerned for him and wishes to assure herself as to his welfare is understandable , but that look of shining radiance is a trifle puzzling . |
| 30 | This tin of nuts was a continual source of nourishment to my brother and myself until in his exasperation at the fast-diminishing level of nuts my Father moved the tin out of our reach . |