Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd found myself in the company of two groups of schoolchildren between the ages of seven and thirteen who 'd come to take part in this year 's Young National Trust Theatre production , Two Nations , an exploration of the divisions existing in Victorian society . |
| 2 | ‘ I was actually satisfied with that , if only because I 'd resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never be thin , ’ she admits . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't do it grudgingly , I 'd resigned myself to the fact that football was his burning passion . |
| 4 | For instance , in an 1897 novel , The Typewriter Girl , the heroine comments on finding a job : ‘ I had justified myself before the impartial tribunal of political economy … |
| 5 | By the end of that apprenticeship … well , a tacit acceptance would depend on how I had conducted myself in the meantime . |
| 6 | Now , suddenly I had to remind myself of the truth . |
| 7 | I had to force myself up the path to his front door . |
| 8 | I had to force myself down the street to his house . |
| 9 | I had included myself in the North Oxford set as of right , a right seemingly confirmed by the way Alison had approached me and the ease with which we had conversed . |
| 10 | By now I had covered a fair expanse of this wood , and I had resigned myself to the fact that this would be the earliest I would get , regardless of what was in the ground . |
| 11 | I did enjoy myself , once I had accustomed myself to the way the Yanks danced . |
| 12 | After all , I 've seen myself in the mirror . |
| 13 | I 've already explained to you how I 've worked myself into the ground setting up the interview . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've established myself in the Premier League and struck up a good relationship with the fans . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I have cantered among the hyenas of the Serengeti as they brought down wildebeest ; I have danced the Wellington Boot Dance with the Zulu in the township hostels ; I have tiptoed through the Bibliothèque Nationale , listening to the gummy gumming of mundane scholars ; I have shelled prawns with slant-eyed androgynes in the polyglot souks of the uttermost East ; I have reached the nadir of a nonsensical number of psycho-sexual trances , both in the Amazonian hinterland and the plastic cultures of the Pacific rim ; I have subsumed myself to the circuitry of artificial cerebella in the silicone wadis ; I have crawled down the barrels of guns on all five continents , only to spring forth again — triumphant ; I have tittered in the stalls and tottered by the walls festooned with epicene opera-lovers ; I have sallied forth into the salons of the old world and the new ; I have hefted steins in the beerhalls and pinched flutes in the Shires ; I have raced laggardly protons around the cyclotron , revelling in the sempiternal sciamachy ; and — let us not forget — I have also hidden under couches whilst the moneyed pulers petted their kittenish neuroses , imagining themselves trusted , secluded . |
| 16 | Yes , I have prostituted myself for the sake of art . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I have permitted myself throughout the useful abbreviation ‘ iff ’ for ‘ if and only if ’ . |
| 19 | There are loos close at hand which makes a nice change from the back of a bush ; so far I have behaved myself in the boat ! |
| 20 | It is but one of a plethora of bearable books on the ever lovable cuddly toy which has imprinted itself in the imagination of young and old alike , and always with a name by which to identity the original . |
| 21 | One unfortunate and totally false legend which has attached itself to the Tilford Bach Festival is the idea that the choir consists of local people . |
| 22 | It often seems to Christians that the Christianity which has wrapped itself round the person of Jesus has served to obscure rather than communicate its raison d'être . |
| 23 | This time the Orange Order , which had distanced itself from the Castlewellan and Cookstown incidents , was involved . |
| 24 | Tammuz leaned over Zambia and removed a T-shirt which had hooked itself over the wall-clock in the frenzy of its removal the previous night . |
| 25 | His hand , which had insinuated itself beneath the cover , was sending her thoughts in an entirely different direction , and as his warm palm began rubbing gently across her back she totally lost track of what he was saying and had to desperately drag her mind back as he continued . |
| 26 | Of the seven countries which had exempted themselves from the ban , Zambia , Zimbabwe , Malawi , Botswana and South Africa were ivory producers and exporters , while China and Hong Kong were the only countries to continue importing ivory . |
| 27 | This meant that the high pressure system which had established itself across the country in the first part of December , and the ensuing hard freeze , was next to useless from a winter climber 's point of view , with the crags totally bare . |
| 28 | Yesterday , a clutch of companies which have committed themselves to the project , including the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo , were awarded Liverpool Compact Partnership Bonds . |
| 29 | Charles Spencer comes on stage as the nice guy who has dissociated himself from the forced sale of tenants ' cottages , grieved over the disposal of historic treasures and heralded a new degage era of neighbourliness . |
| 30 | Sassenach Lilly Meaham is so terrified of bagpipes she has to lock herself in the loo every Hogmanay . |