Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's been talk of Bruce leaving but it will be a greater achievement for me to establish myself as first choice with him still at the club . ’ |
| 2 | Can I restrict myself to low stocking levels — resisting temptation ? |
| 3 | The first version there , is one that I did before I even looked at your , at at any of the homeworks , and I got myself into some awkwardness of trying to translate virtues , and ended up with beneficial properties , erm , which is hardly perhaps very idiomatic and the one underneath that is Jemma 's and the absent writer not that she could be embarrassed because she 's not here , erm , and she 's actually simplified more than I have , by half a line , you 'll understand . |
| 4 | Wandering on , I found myself among dreary council flats , improved by a figure of Joseph holding the Baby high on a wall . |
| 5 | The reader may have gathered by now that I place myself amongst this group . |
| 6 | After a week of intensive treatment at Farnham Park my back was hurting more than ever , so I discharged myself without any hope of a cure . |
| 7 | My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed . |
| 8 | I threw myself with apparent enthusiasm into a conversation Marietta and the solicitor were having about the difficulty of finding and keeping reliable cleaning ladies . |
| 9 | After lunch , Bernice and I armed ourselves with black plastic dustbin liners and we made a concerted attack on Billy 's room . |
| 10 | I availed myself of this service . |
| 11 | ‘ I find myself in complete agreement with Professor Knight and would go further in saying that it is not credible that a karate chop to the base of the nose could cause a fracture of the anterior cranial fossa without considerable damage to the nasal structure . ’ |
| 12 | As a fellow Chairman of these Tribunals I find myself in general agreement with him , although is until some way is found to eliminate obviously frivolous appeals from the Local Appeal Tribunal 's decisions I doubt the practicality of having appeals to a Tribunal of Commissioners and blanch at the thought of their Lordships of the Court of Session 's comments if asked to deal with some of the material placed before a single Commissioner at present . |
| 13 | I find myself in some difficulty in that the statement I have prepared does not debate the merits of the inner and outer routes , but merely the question of is there a need for a relief road er and what are the benefits that the particular relief road er that we are currently promoting which is the outer northern , whether that is is sufficient to demonstrate that it is meeting a need . |
| 14 | I 've , you know , I feel I 've trusted him all my life you know , an now I find myself in this situation . |
| 15 | I comfort myself with that recollection when dealing with complaints about my own paper , very much part of a modern editor 's work in an age when our readers have become more critical and more discriminating , but Professor Macmurray 's insights have helped me to distinguish between those complaints that flow , as they sometimes do , from a different subjective interpretation of a given body of facts and those that arise from a straightforward error on our part . |
| 16 | I did n't do a lot of walkin' , except round the shops , and I treated meself to another 'ansom cab to bring me back . |
| 17 | I astonished myself with this realization . |
| 18 | It is an error to assume , as I did myself at one time , that theory necessarily exists in an ancillary and elucidatory relationship to criticism , which is in turn at the service of literature . |
| 19 | I promise I will give you good warning before I avail myself of this privilege . |
| 20 | ‘ You know the bad consequence of my laying myself under unnecessary obligation , and you will therefore take care that I only do it for real Friends that I can depend upon , ’ the member of parliament warned . |
| 21 | I concern myself with general policy . |
| 22 | There had been some war damage but this was not on a scale which lent itself to large-scale redevelopment . |
| 23 | Rulfo 's oral style — which manifests itself in this novel and in the stories of The Burning Plain , in the frequent repetition of words and phrases , in a manner typical of the backtracking of oral narrative — is , of course , much more than a formal device , for its function is to take us inside the world of a rural peasantry whose cultural tradition is non-literate . |
| 24 | As well as prompting a rise in trade , the existence of a new class which found itself with spare time and spare cash at its disposal also heralded an era of unprecedented artistic achievement . |
| 25 | While he can not really be called a poet , he has strong and sensitive feelings which show themselves in poetic music in the opera . |
| 26 | Hence the new postulate in psychoanalytic theory : that there must be an underlying biological instinct which expressed itself in mental life as a compulsion to repeat unpleasant experiences . |
| 27 | In fact , as a result of this talk , I made the detour to Sydney , and quickly found that there are very many interesting locations and sites in this lovely , if expensive capital , which lends itself with peculiar delight to the persuasions of the camera . |
| 28 | Geometry is not a subject which lends itself to such treatment . |
| 29 | What seemed to me most significant about the period I chose to study was that this was the moment of transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance , a transition which could best be observed and studied in drawing , which lends itself to greater experimentation . |
| 30 | But the regional representatives will try to convince Mr Lang that Highland is a unique area , with a strong community identity which lends itself to region-wide treatment . |