Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to put myself on the map and this Test is a good chance to start doing it . ’ |
| 2 | When I want to find myself in the dream of the New Look , I have to reconstruct the picture , look down at my sandals and the hem of my dress , for in the dream itself I am only an eye , watching . |
| 3 | Recognizing all this , and being shown too where the power lies in this social order , the politics of inversion become persuasive , perhaps irresistible ; this is Moll , about to thrash the predatory Laxton : ‘ I scorn to prostitute myself to a man , /that can prostitute a man to me ’ ( iii . |
| 4 | It would have been a foolish , bull-necked man who would have looked a gift horse in the mouth … so I like to see myself in a small way as following in his footsteps . ’ |
| 5 | The usual stratagems and repositionings have failed to induce narcosis in me , so I decide to settle myself against the soft zigzag of her body . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's definitely an experience and I try to give myself to the moment and make the most of it . |
| 7 | This is a subject to which I shall return , but for the moment I prefer to confine myself to the typical picture and to show where my own circumstances coincided with it or diverged from it . |
| 8 | Because I need to purge myself of the past more than anything . |
| 9 | To achieve the latter I have to see myself as an object , to know how my regretting might appear . |
| 10 | When I finish playing , I hope to follow Mick Channon into racing but before that happens I have to prove myself in the Premier League . |
| 11 | They are lovely to visit — especially when you want to feast yourself on a Dorset cream tea — but it is the rolling countryside and stunning coastline which attract the many lovers of the outdoors . |
| 12 | You want to sacrifice yourself in a bloody revolution that will have no hope of success , and you want to sacrifice hundreds , perhaps thousands of young lives with you ! |
| 13 | But it comes down to how openly you want to express yourself as a Muslim . |
| 14 | TOURING America with your home at your back is a popular option for familes and travellers on a budget who want to free themselves from the hassle of searching for somewhere to get their heads down each night . |
| 15 | Those who manage to present themselves with a cool , unemotional middle-class style have a better chance of their messages being responded to . |
| 16 | And you know very well that as soon as you start to launch yourself into the world of contracting by , by its very nature a contract a a automatically has loopholes in it , and the more you write in a contract the more loopholes you 've got . |
| 17 | Except when prevented by medical reasons or other sufficient cause , candidates who fail to present themselves for an examination , or to submit cumulative or other forms of assessment work by the due date , shall be deemed by the board of examiners to have failed in that examination or assessment . |
| 18 | ‘ Unless you wish to initiate yourself into the ultimate joys of sex right now , be still . |
| 19 | ‘ If you wish to avail yourself of the bathroom facilities , feel free . |
| 20 | You learn to love him though your sister ; you learn to enjoy at second hand what she enjoys , and you come to regard yourself as a non-person , an appendage , the other twin , the dull one . |
| 21 | I was thinking of ethnography , which means you have to immerse yourself in the situation and talk to the people involved like an anthropologist would . |
| 22 | If you 're not receiving supplementary pension , you have to claim yourself from the council . |
| 23 | Yes I mean it does n't go down well and I 'll say the things you have to do when you when you 're helping to run a club , you have to commit yourself to the club and you have to do the jobs that th presented by the club . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ It 's lonely being a long way ahead so you have to get youself into a cocoon to protect yourself from the thoughts that can trouble your mind . ’ |
| 25 | Because you will not have it accepted if it is not in the house style , and there are conventions , appropriate , and quite different , according to the magazine , the newspaper , and so on and so forth , so you need to acquaint yourself with the house style . |
| 26 | The only thing they really lacked was that extra bit of meanness that you need to impose yourself on a game . ’ |
| 27 | We tend to isolate ourselves from the rest of the natural world and yet we are very much a part of it . |
| 28 | So to sum up , if we want to help ourselves towards a healthy heart and a long and happy life we need to eat a low fat diet , take regular exercise and stop smoking . |
| 29 | We seek to rid ourselves of the awful thought that we might have some responsibility for what has happened . |
| 30 | We try to involve ourselves with the Austrian authorities as little as possible . ’ |