Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If climbers hugged themselves in delight in the knowledge that they had the monopoly on daft , death-defying behaviour , their hearts must have sunk to see people above them launch themselves off cliffs , strapped to a parachute . |
| 2 | When I introduce myself to a class that I am working with for the first time I frequently begin by asking them to sit close by me on the floor and listen with their eyes shut to the sound of a pair of Indian bells struck together . |
| 3 | Then I forge myself a letter . |
| 4 | I despise myself . |
| 5 | I despise you , and I despise myself for needing you , but I do need . ’ |
| 6 | Pinning the laminate onto my dress , I launch myself into the throng . |
| 7 | I mean myself has mentioned it now in committee but er I was a lone voice you see that 's the that 's the trouble when you 've got fifteen other members and and they do n't seem to be bothered about trees . |
| 8 | I mean myself as a councillor I think i if you 're a councillor you should be involved in the strike in one way or another you know . |
| 9 | Between your legs the silver comets spiral through the night , I lose myself , he says … he says … how beautiful you are Maggie and how beautiful life ought to be with you . |
| 10 | I rub myself up against him . |
| 11 | Dostoevsky has an impudent way of making his narrator declare ‘ As a chronicler I confine myself to presenting events exactly as they happened , and it 's not my fault if they appear incredible ’ — like the son of the house writing home about his time on the North-West Frontier of India . |
| 12 | I 'd like to stay here on the floor but there 's cars beeping at me and I think I 'm lying in the road , so I push myself up and sort of crawl to the pavement . |
| 13 | I really have to watch how far I push myself these days , though . |
| 14 | And I push myself down , do a move , bunny hop , and I 'm gone — nothing can stop me . |
| 15 | She was a hard worker , and I call myself a hard worker and I know that some days I push myself too hard and my mother 's done that all her life . |
| 16 | I push myself up , still keeping the knife near her throat . |
| 17 | I push myself off from the wall and walk across . |
| 18 | True faith in God means that I distrust myself in order to trust in God . |
| 19 | I make myself breathe slow . |
| 20 | Just wait a moment , while I make myself a little more Presentable , then I will come with you . ’ |
| 21 | I make myself aware of a three-dimensional object by synthesizing what I perceive from here with what I imagine from there , of a continuing event by synthesizing what I perceive now with what I remember from past and anticipate from future viewpoints ; and in either case ‘ Be aware ’ obliges me to let myself be moved from the different viewpoints , as a causally necessary condition of becoming aware from them . |
| 22 | For the primer I use gesso which I make myself form rabbit size and whiting . |
| 23 | ( ‘ I labour to be brief , I make myself unclear . ’ ) |
| 24 | ‘ I hope I make myself clear ? ’ |
| 25 | I hope I make myself clear ? ’ |
| 26 | I see an old , mottled mirror above the fireplace , wherein I make myself comfortable . |
| 27 | I make myself a cup of milkless tea , vintage 1974 , and take a cautious sip . |
| 28 | If you say all that sneeze , and I make myself sneeze , I do n't think |
| 29 | I drag myself out of bed each night to start the day — and with what ? |
| 30 | Actually , I have begun to think that I do belong to a time , but it is separated by so many decades from theirs that I reproach myself . |