Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her salary is not excessive so she is setting herself a strict budget for her homebuying . |
| 2 | If you are allowing yourself a daily ration of alcohol , allow these calories in addition to a minimum calories ' worth of food and milk from the F-Plan menus . |
| 3 | If you were to serve yourself an average helping of cabbage , though , it would usually weigh at least two ounces if you were eating it raw as part of a portion of coleslaw , for example , or four ounces if you were serving boiled cabbage . |
| 4 | Glenn Hoddle wo n't be naming his side , until he 's given himself a fitness test on a calf strain . |
| 5 | He murmured her name as if he was asking himself a question . |
| 6 | His lips even moved a little , as if he were giving himself a consultation . |
| 7 | It may just be with a weekly magazine and a cream cake , but you are giving yourself a pat on the back . |
| 8 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 9 | It 's as though she was giving herself a treat . " |