Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may wonder : Who am I to set myself up ? |
| 2 | So , I write , as well as this diary , some of my new novel ( a killer , this one , dealing as it does with post-Holocaust survivors ' guilt ; why do I set myself these agonies ? ) and start pinch-hitting for Gloria Hunniford on Radio Two . |
| 3 | In the flush of enthusiasm , if not youthful , at least inexperienced , I set myself in 1960 two major objectives : one was the development of extramural services — ‘ community care ’ was the jargon — which would reduce the incidence of hospital care and counteract the institutionalism of long-stay hospitals ; and the other , not unconnected , was to break down the huge mental hospitals inherited from the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | It appears to have escaped Berkeley 's attention that not all imaginary things , for example a drunkard 's pink rats , are voluntary and lack the vivacity of the real thing , and also that , when I set myself to imagine something , I can make my ideas as orderly and coherent as I like . |
| 5 | It was one of the goals I set myself ’ . |
| 6 | I am writing these lines on the last day of 1986 , the deadline I set myself for reaching the Great Glen with my pen . |
| 7 | In answer to the problem I set myself ( reports of which were carried in the provincial press in 1980 ) , a certain Mr A. Hatton of Birmingham wrote : ‘ If you visit some of the pubs , clubs and places of enquiry , you will get the solution to your enquiry … just speak to the majority of working people , blacks do not have the intellect or inclination for academics ’ ( personal communication , 12 June 1980 ) . |
| 8 | The remit which I set myself is to examine in outline the ways in which the political parties have both responded to and helped to shape the pertinent social collectivities in Britain over the post-war years , and how the activities of political forces have been constrained by , and have served to maintain or transform , the economic class relations of British capitalism . |
| 9 | When I set myself to search this site , my first little breakthrough came when I uncovered a bronze coin weight ; this was in very poor condition but I was able to make out that it was 17th century in date . |
| 10 | Next day , I set myself to writing out my dream , as Horace Walpole did with his dream of Otranto . |
| 11 | SCORPIOS may not like to appear outwardly ambitious but you set yourself specific goals and work relentlessly towards them regardless of the opposition . |
| 12 | Set realistic goals Make sure you can achieve what you set yourself in the time |
| 13 | Notwithstanding the merit and extent of his achievements , Gavin Hastings still retains the desire to reach out for the best of which he is capable with as yet undiminished zest : ‘ Unless you set yourself tasks and ambitions , unless you have new targets , there is n't much point in playing . |
| 14 | Again another thing too , is that boosting your ego side , if you s if you set yourself a little bit of a target and you can manage it er can you run up the hill ? |
| 15 | It may be that you are not giving yourself enough challenge in the learning goals you set yourself , and that you are attaining them without any stretching of your ability . |
| 16 | ‘ You set yourself up as judge and jury , and yet who are you to decide matters — a man who spent the evening philandering with his secretary ! ’ |
| 17 | It could be that you 've never taken your family abroad on holiday , so you set yourself a little objective , that in two years ' time , I want to take them all , even if it 's a damn package deal on a flight to Tenerife , do it , will you feel good , will the family enjoy it ? |
| 18 | Apart from the deadlines created hy husbands ' and children 's needs , she imposes her own time pressures ; these follow from the way she organizes her work and the kind of standards she sets herself . |
| 19 | You 're afraid to ask you landlord for a repair because if you do , are you setting yourself up for a rent increase ? |
| 20 | Meanwhile , she set herself to work with renewed determination . |
| 21 | In the thickest part of the forest she felt secure , later when the sun was higher and they had eaten they would have to move on , but now while the others were sleeping she did what she had scarcely ever done before — she set herself to think . |
| 22 | What had happened was no fault of hers , and she set herself to live with it . |
| 23 | At times , pressure on space meant we could not do justice to the work she did for us , but nevertheless she continued to keep up the high standards she set herself . |
| 24 | She thought of Africa and its special ordeals with greedy excitement ; she set herself against its vast and glorious horizons . |
| 25 | If it gave Eva pause for thought it certainly did n't show in any relaxation of the pace she set herself . |
| 26 | Scrambling to her feet , she set herself to rights , before stalking back to the house . |
| 27 | And as she thought of the good golfing years she had allowed to go to waste , so praying and practice loomed large in the recovery programme she set herself . |
| 28 | ‘ We set ourselves the 30,000 target for our 21st birthday — March 1992 , ’ John said . |
| 29 | In 1 we set ourselves the problem of accounting for intuitions that some stretches of language are coherent and others are not . |
| 30 | We set ourselves the task of uncovering the principles behind our feeling that certain stretches of language are meaningful and unified : that they have the quality of coherence . |