Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the inquest they said he probably had n't intended to kill himself because he had a return ticket in his pocket . |
| 2 | Upon recovery in hospital she said she had intended to kill herself . |
| 3 | I am slightly irritated to find myself thinking the same thought at the same point every evening , but also rather comforted . |
| 4 | It was , understandably , the peace which was essential information for the descendants , for it influenced their present actions to some extent ; and the solemnities were intended to impose themselves on the memory of the participants and witnesses and their children . |
| 5 | Although the City Code does not have the force of law , those who wish to take advantage of the facilities of the securities markets in the UK are expected to conduct themselves in matters relating to takeovers according to the City Code . |
| 6 | How we were expected to conduct ourselves . |
| 7 | This is a result of that historical process by which , through new media such as printing , material goods have been created with cumulative effect ; as a result of this powerful force for cultural production , the present generation has inherited a vast accretative mass of products in terms of which it is expected to know itself . |
| 8 | As John of Climacus said : ‘ The man who has come to know himself is never fooled into reaching what is beyond him . |
| 9 | She certainly had n't expected to find herself sharing a house with him ! |
| 10 | Er , but I mean , everything you do is , is designed to set yourself up in the best possible position for when the staff come in and , and throughout the shift leaving it as best you can for the branch manager the next day . |
| 11 | If anything happens to me mother — and it 's not all that far off really — I 'm expected to pick meself up , go back out there and start again . |
| 12 | Few men dared whistle or swear in the workings , for the little people would not tolerate that and indeed the men were expected to behave themselves sensibly . |
| 13 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 14 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 15 | I am also bidden to suggest myself . |
| 16 | Mr Rollins will be offering half price entry to GCHQ staff , the most cunningly cheap special offer in the history of marketing : staff at the Government 's intelligence gathering centre are not permitted to identify themselves . |
| 17 | Until Margaret 's frantic visit four days earlier she 'd resolved to apply herself assiduously to her job in an attempt to exorcise Marcus Pritchard from her memory entirely , and Denmark had meant nothing to her except as a dark finger of land on a map pointing upwards into the North Sea . |
| 18 | Or the shift from ‘ producer capitalism ’ to consumer capitalism , in which , for example , the moment of distribution has come to assert itself versus the moment of production . |
| 19 | Along the top of the ridge near the ski-lift station where they 'd just been assembled and accoutred , forty of fifty unwilling looking soldiers were strung out in a line attempting to obey orders and words of command from Non-Commissioned Officers who had sensibly omitted to incommode themselves with skis . |
| 20 | Those who are unsure of how to do this will be shown , after which they will be expected to manage themselves . |
| 21 | This pornographic genre is not confined to porn itself , but spreads through our culture from advertising through bodice-ripping fictions to soap operas . |
| 22 | ‘ You ai n't come to put yerself in pawn , 'ave you ? |
| 23 | The parachute has to be packed into a realistic pack — no self-respecting dropnik could be expected to cast itself off with a bundle of nylon in its arms . |
| 24 | Whatever the public disclaimers of those in authority , many of the mechanisms set up by the ERA seem to teachers to be specifically designed to reduce themselves as professional people to the status of paid servants , to leave them as little margin for discretion as possible and therefore to reduce ‘ curriculum management ’ to technical trivia : the drawing up of timetables and the efficient disbursement of limited resources . |
| 25 | She might have forgotten to protect herself . |
| 26 | No censorship would take place beforehand , but it was made quite clear that on these issues the press was expected to censor itself , to know what ought not to be reported . |
| 27 | According to this conception societies have now come to recognize themselves ‘ as the result of a social action , of decisions or transactions , of domination or conflicts ’ ( Touraine , 1977 , p. 1 ) . |
| 28 | In fact in its original Hebrew setting the shepherd referred to a totally different picture — one who actually cared for and was perhaps even prepared to give his life for the sheep , protecting them from very real danger from which they could not be expected to protect themselves . |
| 29 | Moreover , the child should be made fully aware that he will be expected to satisfy himself later in life as to what extent he accepts the instruction . |
| 30 | Under the general law a surety is expected to satisfy himself or herself of the extent of the risk proposed to be undertaken . |