Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made myself a nice profit out of it . |
| 2 | So , impressed by him , I got myself a bass guitar . |
| 3 | I found myself a nice bit of grass with a backrest against a tree trunk and waited for the show to begin . |
| 4 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 5 | One night I promised myself a hot water bottle , a basket of marzipan fruits and a video . |
| 6 | I poured myself a huge whisky . |
| 7 | I poured myself a stiff drink and tossed it down . |
| 8 | I allowed myself a brief glance at Alison 's ample contours . |
| 9 | Choir night , so I get myself an early supper . |
| 10 | Nine years have passed since my divorce and I tell myself the half-forgotten betrayals and deceits are old news . |
| 11 | Consequentially , when I saw him marching swiftly towards me I permitted myself a brief groan . |
| 12 | I find myself the only thing is to change the subject . |
| 13 | Late that night I ask myself the age-old question . |
| 14 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
| 15 | Many years ago I knitted myself a sleeveless jumper in mercerised cotton ; this stretched in the wash until it was more like a mini-dress . |
| 16 | Soon after taking up my job as cub reporter I bought myself a big radio and a gramophone and continued collecting recordings of Gilbert & Sullivan and classical music . |
| 17 | She was a hard worker , and I call myself a hard worker and I know that some days I push myself too hard and my mother 's done that all her life . |
| 18 | Distracted from my course in self-improvement , I mixed myself a brutal martini and fell to pondering such juxtapositions . |
| 19 | A pressure group , which calls itself the Coordinating Committee on Depo-Provera , has submitted 400 pages of evidence to the appeal panel , which began hearings this week . |
| 20 | The anti-democratic movement , which calls itself the anti-tribal movement , is considering widening the net in its search for suitable replacement students . |
| 21 | It also conveyed the message that the CFLN — which renamed itself the Provisional Government of the French Republic ( GPRF — Gouvernement Provisoire de la République Français ) as of June 1944 — had a role beyond liberation . |
| 22 | Going through to the kitchen , she made herself a hot drink , and carried it into the room where the fire was at last beginning to heat up the air a little . |
| 23 | Later she made herself a light salad for lunch and ate it on the terrace . |
| 24 | In Israel if you got in debt you made yourself a voluntary slave for six years to the person you owed money to , a form of community service , and then you were set free after six years and your debts cancelled and you were given a new start in life . |
| 25 | ‘ Do you consider yourself a rich man ? ’ |
| 26 | The last years of her life were divided between Bermuda and Plandome , Long Island , where she built herself an Italian-style villa and where she died 29 October 1924 . |
| 27 | Cambo 's most illustrious resident , attracted there by its salubrity , was the playwright Edmond Rostand , a florid Marseillaise who built himself an extraordinary house just outside the town to the north . |
| 28 | Torn between tears and laughter , she found herself a clean dress and frilly hat in her locker and went into the showers . |
| 29 | The budget had been the topic of fierce argument , but in the end it was passed by a huge majority , satisfying the Prime Minister , who proclaimed himself a happy man after having threatened to resign if he did not get his way . |
| 30 | She poured herself an uncustomary drink , and grimacing , swallowed it down in two gulps . |