Example sentences of "i [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alexis I himself took several initiatives , setting up a court theatre and appointing tutors not only for his sons but for his daughter Sophia as well . |
| 2 | Even I itself can be factorised in a variety of ways ; as one example , if J is the square matrix which has units in its secondary diagonal and zeros elsewhere , which we shall call the reversing matrix , then |
| 3 | I myself am guilty , he wrote , in that I want the glass to be seen , I want it placed in a morgue and I want people to come in and see it , pay money and come in and see it , if needs be . |
| 4 | That night I lay awake , listening to the sound of children crying and thinking hard about the position that I myself was now in . |
| 5 | I myself felt the meeting had gone pretty well — the house itself was nice and we all seemed to get on very well together . |
| 6 | Most of them , perhaps , were doctors , government servants of one degree or another ; a few were farmers ( I can think of one , still remembered ) and some were just friends , as I myself have been for the Bakgatia and , I hope , for the whole new country of Botswana . |
| 7 | I myself saw furious with blood |
| 8 | Certainly mention of Cailliet and Bédé brings back Eliot to a familiar uniting of primitive and urban as , after stating that ‘ I myself would like an audience which could neither read nor write ’ , he recalls Sweeney Agonistes ( published in book form in December 1932 ) and speaks of the poet as ‘ something of a popular entertainer … having a part to play in society as worthy as that of the music-hall comedian ’ . |
| 9 | Neville Chamberlain , often regarded as the architect of the National Government , confessed , in July 1931 , ‘ I myself hate the idea and hope it wo n't come to pass ’ ; nevertheless , he admitted that a National Government might come about as a result of the financial crisis . |
| 10 | One Sikh woman in Southall told me ‘ My husband likes me to use make-up and I myself like it too . |
| 11 | Sometimes I myself am not sure if I could do it . |
| 12 | I myself have five children and in England this raises an eyebrow , but in Kenya I was often asked would I be having another soon . |
| 13 | I myself was tempted to drop out then and there . |
| 14 | That I myself was hardly any more mature than he , was beside the point : I had no very high opinion of people who claimed to be mature adults . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I myself , with painful , mourning joy , heard him praying softly in his dying moments , and to the last prayer which my father offered up at his bedside , he added ‘ amen' ’ . |
| 17 | Only two years ago I myself wrote an essay which uses all three of these mechanisms directly about Rose of Lima : it diagnoses her ‘ problem ’ as a sado-masochistic relationship to God , it relates this causally to a religious culture which is viciously sexist and heterosexist , and it suggests that we deal with all this by growing up into spiritual maturity and putting such alarming eccentricities behind us . |
| 18 | ‘ I myself can not even begin to imagine by what mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the reputed subtleties of Keynsian economics ( the process which has , apparently , saved the capitalist system from the collapse which would in turn have provoked a revolution ) to the blatant crudities of contemplating intercourse with a mindless whore . |
| 19 | Trying to put myself in his skin in that room at that time must not , of course , be taken to mean that the act contemplated and later committed by Miller is something that I myself could think of doing . |
| 20 | I myself have a sister with two sons who were martyred in the war … |
| 21 | I myself , recently playing with a calculator , discovered the only number which , like the number one , is its own square root but which , unlike the number one , is not its own square . |
| 22 | I myself had a disturbing experience the other day , when one of our local health visitors came to call — something they are wont to do if you have children under the age of five . |
| 23 | I myself would be proud to donate to a fund of this kind , as I think a lot of people would . |
| 24 | Marjorie and Heather spent hours poring over cookery-books , which seemed to me a strange occupation for Oxford graduates , especially in the face of wartime rationing ; but perhaps it was a matter of the fox and the grapes , for I myself had not acquired any culinary skill . |
| 25 | I myself met with Miss Campbell in Tarbert , Harris in 1976 . |
| 26 | I myself was accidentally witness to the diverting scene of a journeyman taylor 's beating his wife about the ears with a neck of mutton , to make her know , as he said , her sovereign lord and master . |
| 27 | Bearing in mind the numerical dominance of the Conservative Party , and the fact that ministers , and especially the Prime Minister , make the news and announce policy , I myself do not find the statistical advantage shown for that side of the House either surprising or disturbing . |
| 28 | In a way , I imagine that this is what I myself am trying to do . |
| 29 | In one regrettable case , which I myself witnessed , it had become an established sport in the house for guests to ring for the butler and put to him random questions of the order of , say , who had won the Derby in such and such a year , rather as one might to a Memory Man at the music hall . |
| 30 | However , after several days of endeavour , in which I myself did my best to assist , his lordship was not able to discover the whereabouts of any of Herr Bremann 's family . |