Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not want to find herself in a hierarchical situation in relation to others at work , thereby creating false barriers and reinforcing the capitalist class structure . |
| 2 | A Punjabi speaking volunteer was suggested to sit in , but this was not acceptable as the family did not want to commit themselves to a regular time for the volunteer to call . |
| 3 | ‘ On the rare occasion he bothers to leave that damn hotel — sorry , but you know what I mean — he just wants to drink himself into a stupor . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not going to turn myself into a performing monkey , ’ warns Howard . |
| 5 | Existing customers are a worse risk because if they know redundancy is in the offing they are more likely to take out redundancy protection while new borrowers are not going to commit themselves to a mortgage if they are worried about losing their jobs . ’ |
| 6 | Julian , of course , would not have described herself as a prophet , because like all monotheists at this date , she believed that God 's revelation was complete and that the day of prophecy was therefore over . |
| 7 | The likeable Frenchman , born in St. Chamond in 1955 , could just as easily have established himself as a professional soccer player . |
| 8 | Physical exercise is becoming known as a valuable tool in treating depression , and if you find that hard to believe just try forcing yourself into a vigorous half hour 's sport , jogging or even just a brisk walk next time you feel low , and note the lift in your mood afterwards . |
| 9 | a person in a fiduciary position … is not … entitled to make a profit ; he is not allowed to put himself in a position where his interest and duty conflict . |
| 10 | They know that you are not trying to portray yourself as a know-all , that you have accepted being ‘ only human ’ . |
| 11 | Where would you most like to find yourself on a Sunday morning ? |
| 12 | What 's the strangest place you have ever woken to find yourself on a Sunday morning ? |
| 13 | By making an alliance with Megara , Athens was clearly seeking to secure herself from a lightning invasion from the west — the threat which had been made at the time of Thasos . |
| 14 | The PC is also beginning to establish itself as a consumer item , as demonstrated by its appearance in high street retail chains like Dixons , Wildings and John Lewis . |
| 15 | In return for setting such a ceiling on damages , individuals who have signed accounts which subsequently generate court actions would automatically have to justify themselves before a disciplinary committee of their institute . |
| 16 | In gender terms this means that it is ‘ precisely when most compelled to see yourself as a woman or as a man , [ that ] you are confronted with the mystery of the other [ sex ] who faces you from across an impassable moral divide ’ ( p. 306 ) . |
| 17 | If God really has disclosed himself in a Son ; and if that Son was characterised by his possession of the Holy Spirit which he has passed on to his followers then we can not with t denying Christ maintain that God has revealed himself a much in Buddhism as in Christianity ; we can not make an amalgam of religions as if we were all honest seekers after a God who hides himself . |
| 18 | Does it really wish to dissolve itself into a European federation , as many of its intellectuals claim , or does it still have specifically Greek aims to pursue in the Balkans and the Middle East ? |
| 19 | I detect no conventional underlying plan : although certain melodic ghosts ( from La Mer , and if I 'm not mistaken from Berg 's Op. 6 Orchestral Pieces ) seem to cry like shags and gannets from the rocks at various locations around the coast , the work really does offer itself as a succession of episodes , most of them only a few bars in length ( the shortest of all is the single bar — string and brass glissandi giving onto flutter-tongue flute with gong — that represents Orfordness ) . |
| 20 | But I know me own daughter well enough to know that she does n't want to lock herself inside a convent for the rest of her life . |
| 21 | You wo n't want to extricate yourself from a personal promise or commitment , but you will begin to feel tied down and wish you 'd never got involved in the first place . |
| 22 | The message from my friend is this : that you should keep that pretty little nose out of things that do n't concern you if you do n't want to find yourself in a whole load of trouble . |
| 23 | She did n't want to find herself with a one-way Goldenrail Supersaver to Belsen . |
| 24 | ‘ Because of the financial strength of the company ’ , Hobor said , ‘ it does n't have to constrain itself during a downturn — in fact its philosophy has always been the opposite : when you 're in a downturn , that is when you should be investing in plant and equipment ’ . |
| 25 | Compact hobs are about 550 × 450 mm ( 21 × 17in ) but if you have space , go for a large hob to take awkward-sized pans : you do n't have to limit yourself to a simple , square configuration there 's no reason why you should n't have two or three small hobs in different places . |
| 26 | He replied that he did n't intend to submit himself to a leadership election because he was determined to fight the right wing , I told him that if he refused to go he would probably end up giving them exactly what they wanted . |
| 27 | ‘ Honestly , sweetest , ’ said Mrs. Mounce , ‘ do n't go lumbering yourselves with a house and a mortgage right at the beginning . |
| 28 | But at least Reebok associated itself with a specific cause — unlike the American television' network that broadcast the Nelson Mandela bash . |
| 29 | He did n't as yet quite dare to imagine himself as a real artist . |
| 30 | Although born into a working class Sydney family and involved in ALP politics since the age of 15 , Keating had never attempted to portray himself as a man of the people . |