Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I have regarded myself as a feminist ever since I finally stopped wanting to be a pretend boy like George in the Famous Five . ) |
| 2 | To achieve the latter I have to see myself as an object , to know how my regretting might appear . |
| 3 | ‘ Surely you must realize that I have placed myself in a difficult position ? |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Yes , I have prostituted myself for the sake of art . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I have described myself as a loner with the profession of an artist-writer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I have permitted myself throughout the useful abbreviation ‘ iff ’ for ‘ if and only if ’ . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | ‘ Yet you must have help to free you from this condition and , frankly , I have found myself at a loss . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is now generally applied to those who have neglected themselves over a long period of time or when a person has become seriously ill but is refusing hospital admission . |
| 14 | Included in this group are schizophrenic subjects who have injured themselves as a consequence of a delusional belief ( for example , that part of the body was evil ) , or because of an hallucination ( such as one in which voices tell the subject to harm himself ) . |
| 15 | Ferryhill , who have found themselves on the fringe of the relegation zone , are without four players , all injured , so Wayne Peachey is set to play . |
| 16 | These were articulate people , perhaps better able to deal with the press and media than some other families who have found themselves in the same position . |
| 17 | In studies of disability , I have been surprised by the number of sexually handicapped people in their fifties and beyond who have consoled themselves with the belief that they are , in any case , too old for sex to have much meaning . |
| 18 | perpetual insults that every decent labour man has endured through standing up for his country in the hour of her crisis from men who have foisted themselves on the Labour movement by wirepulling tactics . |
| 19 | It is this portability aspect of programs , and the conventional hardware — software distinction that goes with it , that has most interested those in AI who have concerned themselves with the relation of brains to minds : there has been an easy temptation to exploit the hardware — software distinction as a model of the brain — mind distinction . |
| 20 | THE difficulty in watching this match was to ascertain how it was Glasgow High-Kelvinside who have anchored themselves in the relegation battle and not their more illustrious Border rivals , Hawick . |
| 21 | She will see those who have committed themselves to the traditional model of education , some as a matter of principle , but others because to question it opens up too big a can of worms . |
| 22 | Europe has its fair share of such operators but the king of them is the Coventry based Atlantic Group who have established themselves under the banner International Task Force . |
| 23 | In addition , 25% have managed only one issue in the relevant period , and no less than 38% have been in the top 50 for less than four years , excluding those who have established themselves in the last four years . |
| 24 | If you have taped yourself on the piano at home , make sure it will amplify well ; public address systems magnify all the little noises and blemishes . |
| 25 | Afterwards , you should feel revitalised — as though you have plugged yourself into a source of energy . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I would have died for you , but you have given yourself to a worthless man . |
| 28 | If you 're not receiving supplementary pension , you have to claim yourself from the council . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |