Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [pn reflx] [prep] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pride myself on having a slightly more sophisticated sense of humour than that . ’ |
| 2 | A durian dilettante is a breed apart : there are even special clubs which devote themselves to following the durian season round the entire archipelago — feasting and waxing lyrical on the fruit 's narcotic delights . |
| 3 | If employees are unable to sell their old properties at the same time as they commit themselves to buying a new one , they may need finance in the form of a bridging loan . |
| 4 | Even when they apply themselves to understanding the effects of social relations on individual cognition , as with work on social identity and social representations , the patterns they describe are assumed to be based on universal properties of the human mind . |
| 5 | They pride themselves on providing a top grade service and have done everything form cleaning ocean-going liners to baby-sitting chinchillas . |