Example sentences of "[vb base] [pn reflx] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Outside but shadowing the DM , we deny ourselves the support of the system at times of currency fluctuation . |
| 3 | ‘ Outside , but shadowing the Deutschmark , we deny ourselves the support of the system at times of currency fluctuation . ’ |
| 4 | I mean he has to take it seriously and occupy himself the effluvium which rises from it . |
| 5 | Almost as good as being cared for , naturally and freely , was to care for someone else and imagine yourself the recipient . |
| 6 | Basically there are two academics in this country who consider themselves the countries expert in the singular on Corpus building and they are at different ends of the spectrum . |
| 7 | If you take your guitar to your local music shop and try out their range of pedals , the chances are that you will find something to do the job and save yourself the substantial cost of a new set of pickups . |
| 8 | ‘ Save yourself the trouble , lad . |
| 9 | ‘ Save yourself the trouble . |
| 10 | ‘ Save yourself the waste of so much expertise , monsieur . |
| 11 | Save yourself the hassle of pushing through the crowds this Christmas by using this Products for Change catalogue , and remember we will promptly refund your money if you are not pleased with what you have received . |
| 12 | It is a long way from the post-punk Big Black noise of old that first did the rounds of Ireland , which they confirm themselves the following day when , nursing Alps-sized hangovers , the threesome spill out stories of their past as we head through New York to the photo-shoot in the Bronx . |
| 13 | Get the most out of your Lakes and Mountains holiday — give yourself the independence to visit other resorts , see famous landmarks or just find the best views . |
| 14 | The logical thing to do is to plan a road racing season which will give you something to aim for in the summer , and then give yourself the option of trying another marathon in the autumn . |
| 15 | If you can aim squarely , hold the club correctly and form a good stance , then you give yourself the best chance to strike the ball correctly . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | However , I do feel that girls like Alison need long-term professional therapy , not just drugs and brief hospitalisation , to help them learn to ‘ feed ’ themselves — give themselves the things they need , such as food or privacy or rest and relaxation — without feeling guilty , and to recognise what these hungers and desires are . |
| 18 | Few people give themselves the time to think clearly about their own futures . |
| 19 | She was a piano teacher ( most piano teachers give themselves the title Madam in South Wales ) , and the food was as tasteless as any I had encountered . |
| 20 | ‘ We set ourselves the 30,000 target for our 21st birthday — March 1992 , ’ John said . |
| 21 | In 1 we set ourselves the problem of accounting for intuitions that some stretches of language are coherent and others are not . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But in those general objectives , we then set ourselves the top ten , top ten objectives and how we are going to actually action those objectives er to er move forward and if they were achieved , we thought if we achieved those ten objectives and that 's going to take time and as I say it 's a dynamic plan , it 's going to take two , three years to achieve and if we achieve those objectives then we will have achieved our own rule er our overall mission . |
| 24 | I 'll give you that guarantee myself the company do n't like me doing this but I will guarantee . |
| 25 | I tell myself the things you 'd like to do to me |
| 26 | Nine years have passed since my divorce and I tell myself the half-forgotten betrayals and deceits are old news . |
| 27 | They set themselves the difficult task of disentangling this cosmic dust from the earthly sort . |
| 28 | From the outset however they set themselves the objectives , not only producing a comprehensive study of land ownership in the region which would be of use to local groups and also capable of influencing regional and National land policy , but equally importantly , of reaching these goals through a very specific manner of research . |
| 29 | The researchers then set themselves the unenviable task of positioning 48 aphids about 1 cm away from the leaves of both the wild and cultivated plants , making sure that the insects were pointing towards the leaves . |
| 30 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |