Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tenant does not want to find itself paying a proportion of the service charge ( which may include rates ) of unlet units . |
| 2 | Apart from the hassles of implementing EDI , suppliers may lose out because they tend to find themselves bearing the cost of holding the stocks which previously were held by their customer . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd tell any new mum who wants to treat herself to buy a steam steriliser . |
| 4 | In so doing , it has committed itself to protect the area and prevent deterioration to its habitats . |
| 5 | Eltharion accepted and has busied himself strengthening the land of Yvresse ever since . |
| 6 | She certainly had n't expected to find herself sharing a house with him ! |
| 7 | He has made himself appear a poodle of the executive . ‘ |
| 8 | He tells his mother he has cut himself to explain the blood on his jeans . |
| 9 | This model is expected to lend itself to study the effectiveness of antisecretory agents in the human intestine . |
| 10 | Students will need to discipline themselves to keep a record , in a loose leaf binder , on a very regular basis eg. weekly or at the longest once a fortnight . |
| 11 | But it was quite clear this time what the answer must be ; she 'd felt herself call the magic , felt it respond to her . |
| 12 | I do n't say this is totally going to crack rural crime but anything we can do to help ourselves to bring the numbers of criomes down , it 's always going to help . |
| 13 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 14 | I 'd trained myself to have no feelings — yet suddenly I 'm coming back to life . |
| 15 | MANY of us were brought up on stories of great inventors and individualistic engineers , and have since had to reeducate ourselves to understand the development of science and technology as a social process , or even to believe that inventions are ‘ socially constructed ’ . |
| 16 | Pinochet understood the power of photography ; he was n't going to allow himself to become a Marcos . |
| 17 | What distressed her most was that she began to find herself liking the woman , with whom she realized she had much in common . |
| 18 | For a second or two the expression of the Annamese.camp " boy " hardened as he stared at his employer , then he moved away from the peephole and began to busy himself cleaning the pots and pans that had been used to prepare the meal . |
| 19 | To tell hospital managers that they should have paced themselves to spread the money over the full year is a denial of all the theoretical advantages of a free market . |
| 20 | If you see something that tickles your fancy you 'll have to force yourself to bring the waiter outside and use sign language . |
| 21 | ‘ I am in the pink , ’ said Dot , though she knew she was n't or she would n't have allowed herself to weep the day before . |
| 22 | I was too young to know that the having to tell myself gave the game away ; and that to be uninhibited about one 's own sexual activities is not the same as being unshockable . |
| 23 | He misinterpreted the Act and he failed to allow himself to have the jurisdiction to deal in a flexible manner with the children , which is the whole purpose of the Act , and consequently it is for this court to make the order that it appears Judge Galpin would have liked to have made and felt impeded from so doing . |
| 24 | If regular recording is possible , teachers could be trained to monitor themselves using a checklist of this kind . |
| 25 | He supposed that she had to be somewhere and he reminded himself that they were n't supposed to be together so what did it matter , but still he kept catching himself scanning the crowd for her . |
| 26 | But we do pledge ourselves to undertake the task with energy and determination , confident that in the full-time life of our Parliament we can make a great advance in industrial prosperity . |
| 27 | Additionally , ‘ the move from development plans to structure plans itself allows a move to flexible and broad criteria for decision , which in turn allows the decision-maker wide discretion and hence room for manoeuvre when resolving applications for planning permission ’ . |
| 28 | Some time later the tears and sadness come , and you start letting yourself feel the separation that has occurred . |
| 29 | They had been dropped near their target , Nofilia airfield , and the following day had hidden themselves to observe the defences . |
| 30 | Civilian paramilitary units operated in several parts of Yugoslavia , notably among the Serbs of Kosovo and in Croatia , where extremists in the ruling Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) had armed themselves to counter the insurgency by armed bands operating in the republic 's Serbian municipalities . |