Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb base] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when we do use our staff , we have the advantage that they are not restricted to a fixed location , but are mobile within districts and organise themselves with minimum supervision and are already capable of using high productivity equipment . |
| 2 | I 'd join the crimplene brigade , dress out of the Littlewoods club and resign myself to false teeth and a perm by the time I was 30 . |
| 3 | So how much you need to clear rent and see yourself past next month ? ’ |
| 4 | Those hardy souls in the present century who ignore the mysteries and regard themselves as random atoms , moving purposelessly in a world of blind chance , must necessarily behave differently from those who , like so many in the nineteenth century , believed that they inhabited an ordered world in which they had moral duties to perform , even if these were obscurely glimpsed and seldom accomplished . |
| 5 | The Malleny Park side has yet to decide on its final line-up but will relish the opportunity to end the season in a flourish at home and push themselves into third position . |
| 6 | There was also alarm about the practice of " occasional conformity " ( whereby Nonconformists were able to evade the provisions of the Test and Corporation Acts and qualify themselves for civil office through the occasional attendance at Anglican communion ) and the growth of Dissenting academies ( which trained future generations of Nonconformist ministers and thus helped to perpetuate the religious schism ) . |
| 7 | After your bath or shower , grit your teeth and splash yourself with cold water ! |
| 8 | They assault the sense , savage the palate , ravage one 's innards and announce themselves in loud , pungent terms so that one gets wind of them long before one catches sight of them . |
| 9 | Early on the morning of Dec. 19 Hawke announced that , at a meeting of the ALP caucus later that day , he would resign as leader and offer himself for immediate re-election to the post . |
| 10 | ‘ We will review the matter at that stage ’ he said , adding that ‘ henceforth Mr O'Reilly will conduct his business within the rules and regulations and acquaint himself with these regulations . ’ |
| 11 | He had begun to drink a lot during the day as he had learned to go to the fridge and help himself to prepared squash . |
| 12 | Reduce your stress levels and get yourself in tip-top condition in this month 's fabulous competition ! |
| 13 | Theory could only be completed in practice and , as a result , Dewey argued that philosophy must abandon abstract metaphysics and apply itself to social engineering . |
| 14 | So not everyone could become a cardholder and admit himself to another potential source of overindebtedness . |
| 15 | Obviously individuals may begin litigation on their own account and represent themselves in those proceedings , but otherwise only solicitors and barristers have the right to act as advocates in courts and only barristers in the higher courts , other than on formal or unopposed business . |
| 16 | With the hazards of lying in the sun for too long firmly emblazoned on our minds , holidaymakers can now pack Le Beachtent and protect themselves from harmful rays . |
| 17 | Hilton tells him to wait patiently in the darkness and acclimatise himself to this new existence , stripped of all the things that had made life worthwhile before . |
| 18 | And we are coming dangerously near to admitting total defeat if we lamely accept the solution to street violence is for women to forego their liberty and put themselves under virtual night-time house arrest . |
| 19 | He was indeed fortunate in his local friends who recognised his ‘ propensity to Botanicks ’ ( Benjamin Franklin , Pennsylvania Gazette , 1742 ) , encouraged expeditions and subscribed ‘ to induce him and enable him wholly to spend his time and exert himself on these employments ’ . |