Example sentences of "[adv] done [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , this is something I 've just done myself |
| 2 | Anxiety affects communicating as people going for an interview know only too well ; interviewees may come away feeling annoyed that their ability to respond fluently has been impaired and they have not done themselves justice . |
| 3 | Sir Bernard 's many friends will fear he has not done himself justice . |
| 4 | The one to feel it most is Wright , and Taylor said : ‘ He probably feels he has not done himself justice when he 's played . |
| 5 | I had not run well ; I had not done myself justice . |
| 6 | Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ? |
| 7 | I think it 's quickly done itself actually . |
| 8 | In fact , she had probably done herself a great favour as , had she continued to suppress the memory , she might have caused herself great emotional problems in the future . |
| 9 | ‘ He said to me that he felt that in the last couple of internationals he had n't done himself justice . |
| 10 | Anne : What about Mr Major has he actually done himself any good this week ? |
| 11 | Erm I would like to take advantage of the things that I have actually done myself as a member of the Stansted Airport Consultative Committee and also as a member of Advisory Committee because I am Stansted representative and we meet from time to time and as apart from transport . |