Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shivering at the table and peering down at the paper under the stumpy candle I allowed myself to wander off the straight path through the dark trees . |
| 2 | I excuse myself to go to the toilet and throw up . |
| 3 | Then before she resumed her snail-slow progress back to bed she steeled herself to look in the mirror above the washbasin . |
| 4 | Then , at last feeling fairly safe , she allowed herself to sink into the nearest chair , totally drained by everything that had happened since she had woken up this morning . |
| 5 | For a fleeting second she allowed herself to revel in the unaccustomed feeling of having the upper hand over him . |
| 6 | She allowed herself to read for no more than half an hour a day . |
| 7 | It was n't until she was completely out of his sight that she allowed herself to break into a swift trot . |
| 8 | Only when Marianne swept from the room did she allow herself to collapse into a chair , closing her eyes and rubbing her fingers over her forehead . |
| 9 | She forced herself to listen to the service , the man 's responses firm and gruff , the girl 's scarcely audible . |
| 10 | She forced herself to go to the cinema knowing that otherwise she would grow increasingly depressed at home . |
| 11 | Wearily she forced herself to move through the Castle , and presently found the trapdoor . |
| 12 | She forced herself to keep on an even keel . |
| 13 | She forced herself to concentrate on the here and now . |
| 14 | For a time her emotions stopped her thinking clearly until she forced herself to concentrate on the problem logically . |
| 15 | Dragging about her every shred of the detachment she had learned over the years , she forced herself to concentrate on the immediate future . |
| 16 | At such moments it was difficult to remain calm , but she forced herself to concentrate on the figures until eventually the task was finished . |
| 17 | Yet it was only as she was getting Emily ready for school next morning that she forced herself to come to a decision . |
| 18 | At each end are two women : young one , lying on front and side , half-wrapped in her mantle as a blanket and beginning to pull it up on her shoulder as a dress while she lifts herself to look towards the centre ; and an old one with cropped hair , a slave , fully dressed , beginning to get to her knees . |
| 19 | If we forced ourselves to think in a detached way we surely ought to be more impressed by the architecture of the caddis 's eye , or of its elbow joint , than by the comparatively modest architecture of its stone house . |
| 20 | And thirdly , and certainly not erm least , we hoped ourselves to benefit at a time when the Government cutbacks were just come into force , which were requiring us to raise erm more income from non-government source . |
| 21 | After a time he nerved himself to say to a couple of youngish men , ‘ Have you heard at all about a man called Menzies ? |
| 22 | Raised in extreme poverty he taught himself to paint in the style of Durer , Bosch , Leonardo and other Old Masters . |
| 23 | He swung himself to sit on the edge of the bed , and dropped his head in his hands . |
| 24 | Having done so , he settled himself to wait with the patience of a hunting predator on the stalk , until the prey presented an opportunity for the kill . |
| 25 | When he excused himself to go to the bathroom Simone turned to her , her dark eyes shining . |
| 26 | Lapping a straggler , he forced himself to focus on the shimmering surface . |