Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the general safety requirement , retailers are criminally liable if they knowingly expose an unsafe product for sale , whereas in civil law , under the product liability regime , retailers are liable to third party victims only if they present themselves as the producer or can not identify the person who supplied them with the product . |
| 2 | It 's something for us to discuss , that 's what I 'm saying , so , so if you commit yourself to something and balls up , erm , the general manager does n't get a copy of it , and nobody else does , just you and me . |
| 3 | And more especially if you regard yourself as an artist of great but as yet undiscovered potential but who is forced by impecunious circumstances to provide the musical entertainment at wedding receptions in The Bronx . |
| 4 | Rostov waited patiently while they arranged themselves in order of precedence and then touched hands with each . |
| 5 | I was fascinated by her story and waited impatiently while she refreshed herself with tea before continuing . |
| 6 | During the lead-up to my emergence as a fully-fledged lesbian , I suffered unspeakably as I steered myself through a minefield of heavily internalized Catholic dogma . |
| 7 | This is probably acceptable so long as we restrict ourselves to a single group , like mammals , but there is some dissent when people seek to extrapolate mechanisms from non-vertebrate species , like molluscs , to the mammalian brain ( e.g. Hawkins and Kandel 1984 ) . |
| 8 | And speak your own language , please : we 'll even teach it to you in our schools to prove how understanding we are , just so long as you do our dirty work for less wages than our own kind are prepared to accept : just so long as you keep yourselves to yourselves , and do n't let your children marry ours , because what we 're all terrified of , so terrified the word 's gone out of the vocabulary . |
| 9 | The town itself is peculiarly built , so that a person may live in it for years , and go in and out daily without coming into contact with a working-people 's quarter or even with workers , that is , so long as he confines himself to his business or pleasure walks . |
| 10 | But Garvey did not care what Gabriel believed , so long as he conducted himself on stage like the Angel Gabriel . |
| 11 | The most important differences are those to be found between individuals , rather than between groups or categories This seems to imply that the one thing Shetlanders have in common is that they Are All different from one another , and that their common identity as Shetlanders is something that emerges only when they contrast themselves to people from the south . |
| 12 | Was this just because she saw herself as a Frieda Lawrence figure , or was there some firmer basis for it ? |
| 13 | Paula looked at him wickedly as she settled herself in the front passenger seat . |
| 14 | He stood her back and looked : she stripped off his gown and , as he was there standing , he hoisted her up and held her easily as she straddled herself around him . |
| 15 | He looked to belong to a different generation from that of Dysart and Ockleton , his face flushed and lined beneath a mane of grey hair , his chest heaving desperately as he lowered himself into the wheelchair . |
| 16 | As soon as we removed ourselves from eyries at Television Centre and Broadcasting House , people began saying to us that the key subject we had to look at was one of portrayal and representation on air . |
| 17 | She had gulped in this exciting sense of heightened perception with the wind and rain , as soon as she found herself on the pavement outside the house . |
| 18 | In January 1312 , as soon as he felt himself to be beyond the reach of the barons , the favourites were restored . |
| 19 | But as soon as he cursed himself for being taken in last night by Isabel 's distress , two insistent memories shook his belief that it had been an act put on for his benefit : the way she had clung fiercely to his hand when they had passed the dungeons , her grip almost painfully strong , and the stricken expression on her face when he had ordered her to strip . |
| 20 | Anyway , Jacob said that he could do the job better and more quickly if he paced himself by singing a lively hymn called ‘ Keep in Step with the Master ’ . |
| 21 | In the former case there is no express threat of proceedings to be withdrawn if the defendant pays up promptly because he believes himself to be liable . |
| 22 | She is lying on her back ; her breasts adjust to a new position tardily as though they contain some viscous substance , set fling gradually as she raises herself on her elbow . |
| 23 | I knew it at once when we lost ourselves in our mutual passion . |
| 24 | Last summer I really lived it up because I treated myself to some peaches . |
| 25 | But he does , he lives in the churchyard , and he has done on and off , as you say , for a few years , and he 's been a bit of a most of the time he 's perfectly all right because he keeps himself to himself . |
| 26 | Now if you damage yourself by whatever way , and the classic one that we see at school is if you get banged in the eye in rugby , somebody elbows you in the scrum or something similar , you then get a swelling caused by what ? |
| 27 | ‘ Bring Michael back before he gets himself into any more trouble . ’ |
| 28 | The grounds were that the work which the appellant offered to carry out when he presented himself to Mr. Burt and Mr. Hughes as a qualified accountant ( and the remuneration that he gained the opportunity to earn as a result ) were services to be provided by him as a self-employed fee-earning accountant , and therefore were to be provided neither under a contract of employment nor by virtue of his holding of an office within the meaning of section 16(2) ( c ) of the Theft Act 1968 . |
| 29 | But even if we restrict ourselves to the ideational or cognitive function of language ( see p 31ff ) it is necessary to distinguish three levels of organization in language . |
| 30 | Even if we confine ourselves to the more usual outlets for creative expression — in the arts and sciences — there is similar ambiguity . |