Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd got my toast and strawberry jam , I 'd treated myself to a doughnut as well , and I 'd got my bag and my money and my dreams back . |
| 2 | I 'd got myself into a double bind , and there was no way out . ’ |
| 3 | When I first went to see Timo Metsola I had to represent myself as a reporter from that magazine . |
| 4 | I had disguised myself with an old cardigan with faded leather elbow patches and a copy of the Daily Express . |
| 5 | ‘ I had got myself in a very foolish position . |
| 6 | Earlier in the day , while looking for the swimming-pool , I had found myself in a park containing the largest number of fire-engines I had ever seen . |
| 7 | Mr D. Davidson turned out to be Alec 's father and after I had identified myself as an old school-friend of Alec 's — I allowed myself a little poetic licence in this description — he confirmed that Alec still lived in Strondonald . |
| 8 | I 've asked myself since a hundred times . |
| 9 | Now , I could count on the thumbs of my right hand the times I 've forgotten myself in a theatre . |
| 10 | ( I have regarded myself as a feminist ever since I finally stopped wanting to be a pretend boy like George in the Famous Five . ) |
| 11 | To achieve the latter I have to see myself as an object , to know how my regretting might appear . |
| 12 | ‘ Surely you must realize that I have placed myself in a difficult position ? |
| 13 | I have described myself as a loner with the profession of an artist-writer . |
| 14 | I have indulged myself in a sentimental browse through the Gongsters , replete with the customary reports of student apathy and financial hardship , and deplored the style of the couple of rugby match reports I contributed . |
| 15 | ‘ Yet you must have help to free you from this condition and , frankly , I have found myself at a loss . |
| 16 | PC Works 3.0 is an enhanced version of Microsoft Works ( known as MS Works ) which has established itself as a very popular integrated package . |
| 17 | This betrayal appears to have provoked a large-scale opposition — as it were , an alternative ‘ fundamentalist ’ priesthood , militantly at odds with the established one which had prostituted itself to an illegitimate king . |
| 18 | By 1810 the legal government of independent Spain ( which had transformed itself from a Central Junta , composed of delegates from the Provincial Juntas , into a Regency ) was cooped up in Cadiz surrounded by a French army ; there it sought to find the sinews of war and to regularize the constitutional position by summoning a Cortes which met on 24 September 1810 . |
| 19 | 'E 's got 'imself in a bit o' trouble , ’ she said in a whisper . |
| 20 | Anyone who has enrolled himself as a disciple of Jesus will want to study the Gospels to discover his teaching about prayer . |
| 21 | Could our good Christian Mrs Dallam possibly expose her daughter , and her friends ' daughters , to a woman like Marie , who has shown herself on a public stage for money , and lived with one man while married to another ? |
| 22 | Supporters of his visit included Western Goals founder member Stuart Millson , who has described himself as a fascist and a racist , and BNP deputy leader Richard Edmonds , who has said he wanted to emulate what Le Pen has done in France . |
| 23 | She has valued herself as a beauty , and now that her looks have departed she is left with nothing : |
| 24 | In some ways she was very unsuited to this life — indeed she has described herself as a ‘ misfit ’ in Baldersdale . |
| 25 | When Deckard asks his wife why she has programmed herself for a ‘ six hour self-accusatory depression ’ , she says |
| 26 | How could she have got herself into a mess like this ? |
| 27 | He hopes the meeting will help him and like-minded clergy who 've found themselves in a religious dilemma . |
| 28 | You 've landed yourself with a man who 's been wise to women 's performances since the age of fourteen . |
| 29 | One biscuit becomes a whole packet , one chocolate bar turns into three and before you know where you are you 've trapped yourself into a wholesale binge . |
| 30 | Teaching somebody to drive when you 've driven yourself for a number of years is really hard . |