Example sentences of "[pron] can [vb infin] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sam and I can amuse ourselves on the Sunday , and that will give you the opportunity to take Anna to the Forest . ’ |
| 2 | Pastiche is a dualistic activity , and it is an activity which can lend itself to the expression of paranoid feelings and unacted desires . |
| 3 | Then arrange to visit the kennels before making a definite booking , so that you can satisfy yourself with the standard of care . |
| 4 | According to folklore you can protect yourself from the fairies by carrying iron , steel or oatmeal . |
| 5 | You can explain yourself to the CO later . ’ |
| 6 | This not only keeps it in place , but it also feels nice for your partner and means you can stroke yourself at the same time . |
| 7 | You can console yourself with the thought that you did your best . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , you can help yourself in the following ways : |
| 9 | Go ahead , admonished the voice , but see if you can look yourself in the eye tomorrow morning . |
| 10 | The style is based on the premise that if you can defend yourself at the eight compass points covered by the trigrams you will be fully protected from attack . |
| 11 | He told them : ‘ You are weak people , you will always be weak people unless you can arm yourselves with the strength and courage required to gaze back into the questioning eyes of children ’ . |
| 12 | What you 've got to do is actually have some understanding of the needs of a of particular newspapers , radio programmes , television programmes , by studying , look at it , see what it who 's it for , what language do they use , how do they phrase things , what 's their format , and then you can get yourself in the position where you can say , ‘ I can do something like that , I can produce something like that . ’ |
| 13 | If you can put yourself in the other person 's shoes and think about how they might feel , it will certainly help if you let them know that . |
| 14 | Assuming that you have determined that the line is biased to starboard , and you therefore want to start near the starboard end of the line , there are still a number of considerations which you must take into account before you can put yourself in the right place as the gun is fired . |
| 15 | There are peel-off labels for the long holiday dates , something with which you can amuse yourself on the next bank holiday . |
| 16 | Some years later he commented on this to Minton who gave an insight into their insouciance : draw in the morning , when fresh , he advised , so that you can enjoy yourself in the afternoon . |
| 17 | We can congratulate ourselves on the forecasts which led to fixing fees at the right levels , but commercial criteria are not the only means of judging the fortunes of professional institutes . |
| 18 | We can comfort ourselves in the knowledge that death must have supervened very quickly . |
| 19 | It is perhaps in part a matter of date which makes Dornford Yates 's novels seem high-flown and absurd to us where we can accommodate ourselves to the formalities of Anthony Hope 's Ruritania . |
| 20 | We can lock ourselves in the basement , away from that bloody thing outside and until this Darkfall storm blows over . ’ |
| 21 | We can put ourselves in the place of the poet or the friend ; we can be either the sender or the receiver . |
| 22 | Er to work on the key issues which are common to all options for the future , er such that th we can put ourselves in the best position to secure future business success . |
| 23 | Once we can rid ourselves of the dual notions that some magic divides jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional questions and that all matters of law have one inexorably correct meaning which must always be supplied by the courts , we are in a position to make a reasoned choice . |
| 24 | My own experience , on the rare occasions when I have actually been asked to produce a short story with my mind totally blank , is that one can tune oneself like the strings of a wind-harp by admitting to one 's mind the desire to write a story and that in that state of receptivity even the oddest , most trivial circumstances will produce a basic idea . |
| 25 | They can advertise themselves in the truest and most direct way possible : the experience of friends , colleagues or neighbours who make up the union . |
| 26 | It is therefore also common ground that prima facie Glasgow must be sued in Scotland because of course it is domiciled in Scotland , and that the banks are only entitled to sue in England if they can bring themselves within the special jurisdiction laid down in articles 5 and 6 of Schedule 4 . |
| 27 | I assume that if they can bring themselves within the terms of erm of these orders then they will er be indemnified . |
| 28 | If the guest is settling the bill by credit card they can avail themselves of the express check-out service . |
| 29 | If they are confident , they can commit themselves to the importance of each of the eight aspects . |
| 30 | The early experience suggests that for the enthusiast of language , for example , the latter approach and even the former is possible : equally too the science enthusiast in primary schools protests at the ease with which they can familiarise themselves with the process . |