Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 61 | WIMBLEDON boss Joe Kinnear promised to buy himself a walkie-talkie last night after landing a month-long touchline ban , writes Ben Bacon . |
| 62 | Sharpe , despite the Prince 's frequent insistence , had yet to buy himself a Dutch uniform . |
| 63 | She 's old money and as snooty as they come , while he 's the typical self-made second-generation Italian who wants to buy himself a piece of class . ’ |
| 64 | The guy 's got enough dough to buy himself a hotel room to rest up in . ’ |
| 65 | Another £1,000 goes to his friend , Burger , to buy himself a pair of spectacles . ’ |
| 66 | So Ashenden spent eight quid of his money in order to buy himself an alibi . ’ |
| 67 | Tell Brian to buy himself an alarm clock cos I want it back ! |
| 68 | Icke was the party 's national spokesman 17 months ago when he donned a turquoise tracksuit to announce himself the son of God on a mission to save the world . |
| 69 | Here it was , I believe , that my hero Frank Buckland , the writer , naturalist and Mayhew-like chronicler of London life , had jumped into the water in order to imagine himself a salmon . |
| 70 | He liked to imagine himself an academic , working after dinner in one of those elegant book-lined rooms of an Oxford college . |
| 71 | At an ARC symposium last week , convened to mark the ARC 's decision to rename itself the Agricultural and Food Research Council , delegates called for action to save the British malting industry which is hit by falling demand for Scotch whisky . |
| 72 | The Hexagonale regional grouping ( comprising Austria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Italy , Poland and Yugoslavia — see p. 38508 ) decided in Vienna on Jan. 28 to rename itself the Central European Initiative with immediate effect ; Yugoslavia did not participate in the meeting but Slovenia and Croatia were represented . |
| 73 | She watched , round-eyed , as several men-at-arms , pikes in hand , marched by on their way through the gate , and tried not to imagine herself a prisoner in their charge . |
| 74 | She walks from her flat at the wrong end of Ladbroke Grove , along the Harrow Road , under various stretches of motorway , past the Metropole Hotel where she calls in to buy herself a drink in the Cosmo-Cocktail Bar ( she is perversely fond of the Metropole Hotel ) , and then through various increasingly handsome although gloomy back streets , until she arrives at the arranged corner . |
| 75 | It had seemed to him perfectly reasonable that she should eventually wish to marry , just as she might choose , in a fit of boredom or acquisitiveness to buy herself a fur coat or a new item of jewellery . |
| 76 | Oh , they made the handsomest of couples , Havvie and his American Princess — the latest Yankee heiress , unkind gossip said , to buy herself a title and a place in English society . |
| 77 | She had to light a cigarette to calm herself a little . |
| 78 | Your goal should be to exert yourself a little more each time until you reach a brisk pace and you feel comfortable with it . |
| 79 | What 's New News & New Products This month , Fender forbid G&L from mentioning Leo 's name , new bits and pieces from Warwick , SWR , Carlsbro and Fishman , the return of John Birch and some news on how to win yourself a year-long guitar scholarship … |
| 80 | 3–8- The Free Presbytery of Islay met and resolved to constitute themselves a Kirk Session , and on 30–10 did so again , considered nominations and elected Neil McNeill of Laggan and Charles McNeill of Lossit elders . |
| 81 | Punget Kore says in a meeting with Labour councillors next week the centre 's organisers hope to win themselves a reprieve . |
| 82 | The second is to buy yourself a good waterproof mascara but remember you may need to buy a suitable eye make-up remover , too . |
| 83 | ‘ Well , to buy yourself a little house , perhaps . |
| 84 | When you start to discover this one actually does travel through walls , the sound of it does actually does travel through walls , but as I say , it 's only a temporary measure to buy yourself a little bit of time she says . |
| 85 | After all , mass-produced will always be mass-produced , but the whole point of mass-produced electrics is that you can walk into a store , pick the very best example from a row of several , spend a little money on a great setup , and maybe some pickups , and still save enough over a custom guitar to buy yourself an extremely nice amplifier . |
| 86 | That helps me a lot and I find I 'm able to assert myself a bit more . |
| 87 | At least I wo n't have to pawn myself every day to hsiao jen like this pig-brained cretin here ! ’ |
| 88 | There are a number of men only too anxious to buy themselves a knighthood who might be most attracted to a project that catches the public sympathy . ’ |
| 89 | A long time ago , Alice thought , as she heard the arrival of the first of Félix 's dinner guests , she and Harry had longed to be rich in order to buy themselves a house which they could share . |
| 90 | do you , do , do you have a gun ? , button one for yes and button two for no well I 'm not going to ask you to identify yourselves the three of you |