Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've often speculated since on what would have happened if we 'd just given ourselves up at this point . |
| 2 | In fact this has been a bit over ambitious , very pleased with ourselves were n't we , perhaps we have n't given ourselves enough ? |
| 3 | I can talk about it freely now & we have all picked ourselves up & dusted ourselves down … says that she is a stronger person ( maybe even ‘ harder ’ ) … & she is a very efficient business person & lives & works in Glasgow . |
| 4 | Ah we feel oh we were we enjoyed ourselves there . |
| 5 | Having enjoyed ourselves so much and being impressed by the professionalism shown by our instructor and other divers at the centre , we decided to pursue our new hobby when we returned home . |
| 6 | It gives us the confidence to cope with other apparently insurmountable problems , knowing that we have excelled ourselves before . |
| 7 | Wondering what we had let ourselves in for we anchored as near as possible to Ullapool and contacted the local staff which at that time consisted of local patrol officers backed up by two visiting officers from Dingwall . |
| 8 | What have we let ourselves in for ! |
| 9 | He has let himself down badly . |
| 10 | As Desmond Haynes and Philip Simmons added 99 at better than a run a minute with a volley of boundaries , he must have wondered what he had let himself in for . |
| 11 | He knew what he had let himself in for and he was glad . |
| 12 | Hutton took a drop in salary to join Durham , and he wondered what he had let himself in for when , after a battering from Franklyn Stephenson , he had to leave the field to be sick . |
| 13 | Peach alone was in the house , having let himself in through the cat flap Stephen had fixed into the lower panel of the back door . |
| 14 | Why should I wish the lad any worse harm than he 's let himself in for already ? ’ |
| 15 | Thistle 's early season promise has evaporated , and debutant Julian Broddle must be wondering what he 's let himself in for . |
| 16 | For Mailer , Lawrence 's greatness lies in part in his heroic struggle against his destiny , which was to be homosexual : ‘ he had become a man by an act of will , he was bone and blood of the classic family stuff out of which homosexuals are made , he had lifted himself out of his natural destiny which was probably to have the sexual life of a woman ’ ( p. 154 ) . |
| 17 | A surgeon who immediately welcomed news of chloroform could reasonably claim always to have been aware of the pain although he had disciplined himself not to heed it . |
| 18 | He would have respected himself more . |
| 19 | But then he , himself , had never concerned himself greatly with the case of Michael Holly . |
| 20 | Brian Elphick had been on Lambeth 's housing list for twelve years , having insinuated himself on to it when engaged to a woman he never married . |
| 21 | Despite his obvious sex appeal — to both men and women — Banderas insists that he has never considered himself particularly attractive . |
| 22 | He had squeezed himself back into the side-car with his long legs stretched flat along the floor of the rectangular alloy box . |
| 23 | And he 's sort of picked himself up now , and he 's more , where I 'm getting involved . |
| 24 | With great trepidation and much backsliding the tsar eventually granted the serfs a sort of freedom , but if their interests had been dear to his heart he could have committed himself earlier and pressed harder for a settlement which gave them an economically viable future . |
| 25 | There were too many variables for his liking , but he had committed himself now . |
| 26 | He has committed himself definitely to a belief . |
| 27 | And afterwards , for a second she had felt him relax against her , his body spent , his feelings so near the surface she could almost reach out and touch them , and then he had wrenched himself away from her and the defences had gone slamming back up , shutting her out . |
| 28 | But she noticed he did n't put the map away until he 'd located himself precisely . |
| 29 | Nicholson , who is being paid a handsome £5 million , is reported to have immersed himself so completely in the part that he wanders around the set mumbling the notorious Hoffa 's favourite phrases — even after the cameras have shut down for the night . |
| 30 | His visual impressions have been fading without his knowing it , and with their reactivation stale information has suddenly sorted itself out into a new and firm pattern . |