Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | William was just five months 11 days old at the start ; he had already sailed over 1,500 miles , was the contented centre of attention and was still fresh from triumph in the fancy dress competition , where he earned himself the prize of a furry whale for his appearance as a white mouse . |
| 2 | But although I asked myself the question , I knew the answer . |
| 3 | That 's right trying to find work these days can be demanding and extremely frustrating so you want to make sure that you give yourself the best chance of getting a job and one way to help is to do a good application form and know how to handle yourself in an interview . |
| 4 | Once we grant ourselves the licence to collect the physical artefacts of software , there remain , at least at first sight , respects in which software is both like , and unlike , traditional museum objects . |
| 5 | It is precisely there that they considered themselves the most competent and consequently interfered in all spheres of its life . |
| 6 | Nine years have passed since my divorce and I tell myself the half-forgotten betrayals and deceits are old news . |
| 7 | It is the most beautiful thing you will ever wear — until I surpass myself the next time ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It is beautiful , ’ she said coyly , ‘ it is the most beautiful dress I will ever wear , until I surpass myself the next time . ’ |
| 9 | But it 's so chancy that way uh and I do n't think either if you gave y'self the role or y'know , the title , say , of school counsellor or whatever that you … it would work . |
| 10 | We all regarded medicine as a religion , and we called ourselves the Society of Reason . |
| 11 | Another contributor said that if we asked ourselves the question : ‘ Do the agencies discriminate against West Belfast ? ’ , the answer had to be ‘ yes ’ . |
| 12 | If we make ourselves the bar , if we suggest that self-determination is the right of every people on earth but the Germans , we risk creating resentments in Germany which could be quite as destabilising to the European order as reunification . |
| 13 | The first dance band at the Show Room was made up of people in the dale and they called themselves the Arcadians . |
| 14 | Warnie was a natural historian , and he set himself the task of putting all these documents into chronological order . |
| 15 | An expert can now make a final determination about the construction of documents provided he asks himself the right question . |
| 16 | In 1686 he became a London alderman , sitting for Broad Street ; but he discharged himself the following year , probably in anticipation of the purging of Anglicans from the bench . |
| 17 | ‘ You said a carpenter , one must suppose , because you believe yourself the daughter of a carpenter , ’ interposed Elizabeth Mowbray firmly . |
| 18 | She plays the elderly Dame Lettie Colston , a committee lady and general busybody who starts what develops into a witchhunt when she finds herself the telephone caller 's first target . |
| 19 | Suddenly she knew the answer , even as she asked herself the question , and realised what she had to do . |
| 20 | The 499-member Congress held its constituent session on March 11-12 , when it declared itself the constitutional representative of the Estonian people and passed resolutions calling for restoration of Estonia 's independent statehood and the withdrawal of Soviet troops stationed in the republic . |