Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [coord] [vb base] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I would like to spend one year here , continue my studies and test myself against the best British players . ’
2 If human communication were a simple matter of reciprocally exchanged words , if words had no resonances beyond themselves , I might have been proud to be cast in such a role , and either self-confident enough in my ability to fulfil it , or else realistic enough to modify my directives and declare myself in favour of some more modest role .
3 Many blind people struggle to pay their bills and provide themselves with the necessities of life .
4 State officials are dependent upon capitalist economic development and growth if they are going to be able to pursue their interests and sustain themselves in office , so they are constrained to act in the interests of capital , although not necessarily in its optimal interests ( Offe , 1984 ) .
5 Afterwards , he ensured the men who had accompanied him to Scotland were well before sending Ranulf off to wash their clothes and busy himself about the abbey .
6 And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water , and be unclean until the evening .
7 After your bath or shower , grit your teeth and splash yourself with cold water !
8 Close your eyes and imagine yourself in a bookshop .
9 In girls ' work , for example , we began to learn from our experiences and commit ourselves to ensuring that facilities were genuinely available also to Jewish young women — that we tackled anti-Semitism ; that young women with disabilities were not excluded , and that we looked at our oppressive attitudes to disability and the institutions in which these were enshrined .
10 He has made no secret of his irritation with the City and its ways , and in the light of the group 's disastrous plunge to losses of £71m for the year to June , shareholders are being presented with a ‘ sell me your shares or shoot yourselves in the foot ’ type offer .
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