Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , at this moment I am addressing myself to the question of motive . |
| 2 | I am opening myself as a channel to the Light . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm preparing myself for the next life . |
| 4 | Duncan , Bert and I were to secrete ourselves behind the curtains along with Aspel , who was to demonstrate the trick with the help of his three ‘ assistants ’ . |
| 5 | The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter . |
| 6 | He had no idea that I was prostituting myself in the cause of Jean-Claude 's success . |
| 7 | Instead I was getting myself into an increasingly confrontational situation , a battle of wills , with the Director of Coaching . |
| 8 | At least that 's what I was telling myself at the start line of the Bury 20 . |
| 9 | I was committing myself to a policy . ’ |
| 10 | In 1983 gas , coal and nuclear power accounted for 16% , 9% and 1% respectively of energy demand and it is gas which is establishing itself as the most significant oil alternative . |
| 11 | I have a problem with my marine fish — in particular with a Regal Tang which is scratching itself against the tufa rock . |
| 12 | So he resorted to an old favourite , which was to imagine himself as a First World War fighter ace engaged in an aerial duel with an enemy pilot . |
| 13 | If this view is correct , I can only conclude that I was saddled with both sets of anxieties and , in addition , that there are more and more adolescent girls today who are finding themselves in the same position . |
| 14 | The people of Israel are thought of as a people chosen by God who are to separate themselves from the rest of the peoples of the earth by a series of laws that distinguish the holy time ( sabbath ) from profane time , clean foods from unclean foods , clean from unclean bodily states and holy from unholy places . |
| 15 | ‘ You are involving yourself with a particularly foolish and headstrong group of trouble-makers . |
| 16 | ‘ You are to confine yourself to a mosque until after the Moulid . |
| 17 | ‘ But I suppose that you are consoling yourself after the fashion of a fool who lives in the slums . |
| 18 | ‘ What is the use of doing up the house , if you are to leave yourself in the same poor condition ? ’ demanded Rose . |
| 19 | Walking , running and swimming are the best exercises you can do if you are using yourself in the correct way . |
| 20 | As the introduction says how you intend to proceed , you are committing yourself to a particular course . |
| 21 | Throwing yourself at men , men of gross natures , is a still-greater act of self-abuse , and I can not warn you too strongly that you are placing yourself in the very gravest danger . |
| 22 | They 'll miss him , like they missed many of their first team players who 're saving themselves for a vital league game next week . |
| 23 | If you 're lying in bed trying to go to sleep and you 're screwing yourself into a ball of self-disgust , you 're gon na find the sheets get colder and your limbs get stiffer , and if you do n't break the mood you 'd be better out of bed . |
| 24 | What does matter is that you 're wearing yourself to a shadow to make a bare livelihood — and my hands are tied , ’ he said violently , looking down at them as though he longed to tear off the invisible fetters . |
| 25 | Just by opting for a more left field occupation you 're putting yourself on the edge a bit It really does take a bit of bottle to do that and find your own way through the maze rather than just go with the flow . |
| 26 | You 're working yourself into a state . |
| 27 | So tell me , if the business my grandmother started several decades ago really is on the brink of insolvency , how come you 're sunning yourself in the Caribbean , Mr Sterne ? |
| 28 | Mum , you 're worrying yourself for no reason . |
| 29 | True , you ca n't do it , if you 're restricting yourself to a positive answer . |
| 30 | She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life . |