Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | An omnibus awaited us , and we got ourselves and our luggage stowed therein or thereon ; but a place in the hotel omnibus does not guarantee that you will find a corner in the house . |
| 2 | It is time to promote ourselves and if that makes us pornographers , too bad . |
| 3 | Why has this major change in attitudes come about , and why all this concern about health in an affluent Western world where we can congratulate ourselves and count on our good fortune in having all the benefits of modern medicine to protect us unlike the peoples of the developing world ? |
| 4 | We seated ourselves and he regarded us expectantly , so I opened with , ‘ Can you tell me all about lymphomas and can I see a lymph node ? ’ |
| 5 | We seated ourselves and I watched her cut her muffins into quarters . |
| 6 | ‘ For us to promise the removal of nuclear power generation within 15 years would be to delude ourselves and mislead others . ’ |
| 7 | Will us to wear ourselves and never rest , |
| 8 | Through them we can come to know ourselves and others a little better . |
| 9 | Although Piers Place was the most beautiful house I had owned or ever would own , it always seemed to be in need of structural repairs , there was a large attic floor which we did n't need ourselves and yet were disinclined to furnish for renting out , and the traffic on the main road outside seemed to increase with every year . |
| 10 | Good about everything , good salesmen , erm , but I think we do have to take er , Jack 's thoughts on that , that really perhaps we are begging the question when we , just forget ourselves and keep going till three , four o'clock in the morning whatever it is , and then we 'll get in the car and drive home . |
| 11 | First , do we really accept that a man in the act of undressing suddenly decides halfway through that he will hang himself and goes up to the garret without his boots on to carry out the terrible act ? |
| 12 | ‘ It need hardly be stressed how undesirable a situation is , whereby a prisoner can hang himself and remain suspended for several hours within a cell , unbeknown to either his cellmate or the supervising authority , ’ said the sheriff . |
| 13 | His peers liked him , even , in the end , Fairbrother , who enjoyed climbing himself and appreciated Richard 's gifts . |
| 14 | No one used the cloakroom where Jarvis 's grandfather had hanged himself and no grown-up person ever would . |
| 15 | The day before Joe came home Anne heard the shocking news that Cormac O'Neill had hanged himself and his mother had found his dead body . |
| 16 | His liking for convivial company , found only in the male-dominated bars of New Jersey , a throwback from his forebears of County Cork , eventually forced them into a difficult matrimonial situation from which he occasionally evacuated himself and went off on a drifting reconnaissance of the world outside . |
| 17 | Proudly holding his RFC logbook , in which is a section headed ‘ Rendcomb ’ — here was a man who had flown from the aerodrome not for recreation and a sense of history , but to ready himself and others for war . |
| 18 | Having installed himself and his family in a comfortable , modern house in Hendon , Chapman spelled out his aims in the programme for the first match . |
| 19 | Farias had also manipulated government funds and contracts to benefit himself and his associates by an estimated US$1,000 million . |
| 20 | Then he stopped himself and Loppe and said , ‘ I am glad . |
| 21 | Rosenthal was about to ask something further , but then he stopped himself and said , ‘ Do n't tell me . ’ |
| 22 | He helped himself and we were too busy to stop him . |
| 23 | Protecting himself and his family from fanatic Miller hellbent on revenge . |
| 24 | It should fulfil the double function of protecting himself and appealing to Lorton . |
| 25 | And , and the bloke caught himself and . |
| 26 | They may think the experimenter wants to know himself and not realise that he just wants to know whether the child knows the answer . |
| 27 | Well , the er th they seem to Richard seemed to cry a bit more or a bit easier , you know , if he bumped himself and Bryony , and I think it was , well Bryony it seemed to be a heavy cold that was making her feel miserable . |
| 28 | He 'd sounded regretful but pointed out that he had committed himself and felt it would be ill-mannered to tell his hostess he had now made other arrangements . |
| 29 | ‘ Everyone started laughing and I was concerned that ‘ Jacki ’ might feel alienated but he immediately started laughing himself and I knew I 'd signed a character who 'd get on fine in Scotland . ’ |
| 30 | He let himself and the house go . |