Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 400e ) , they identified themselves with the state , or put themselves on a level with it : they did not openly claim to rule it . |
| 2 | Five or six people I 've never met lounge discreetly in chairs with their legs crossed , or spread themselves upon the floor , clutching their knees . |
| 3 | It may want to mouth , not bite , the person 's hand ; or rest its chin on their shoulder ; or brush itself against the person in the same manner as the foal . |
| 4 | He went into retreat and , says Walton , ‘ had many conflicts with himself , whether he should return to the painted pleasures of a court-life or betake himself to a study of divinity and enter into Sacred Orders , to which his dear mother had often persuaded him ’ . |
| 5 | A trainee who feels that their training course is inadequate has often no option but to continue on the training course or find themselves in a position of having their benefits cut . |
| 6 | He has made no secret of his irritation with the City and its ways , and in the light of the group 's disastrous plunge to losses of £71m for the year to June , shareholders are being presented with a ‘ sell me your shares or shoot yourselves in the foot ’ type offer . |
| 7 | When in trouble he could , like a god , make himself invisible or turn himself into an animal . |
| 8 | Although any " alternative doctrine must be highly speculative " , the influential Halsbury 's Laws of England goes on to recognise that : " for many constitutional theorists the question of whether parliamentary sovereignty presupposes that Parliament must always remain sovereign and can not be bound by the legislation of its predecessors , or whether Parliament 's sovereignty entitles it to restrict its power to legislate , or deprive itself of the power to legislate , remains open . " |
| 9 | We flying a glider or throw themselves of the bridge , if it does n't work they die , somebody learns from that , you know , I know it , it really was a fucking |
| 10 | But if your ticket allows you to fly back from Lisbon or Oporto , after all this culture you could go walking in one of the national parks , explore the wine regions , or treat yourself to a spa ( try Termas de São Pedro and Caldas da Rainha , cheapest in Western Europe ) . |
| 11 | Take a hot bath/shower Or treat yourself to a sauna or even a session in a beauty salon ! |
| 12 | While most of his contemporaries in the conservation world sit behind desks or on committees , Watson and friends race ‘ kamikaze ’ inflatable dinghies in front of Soviet and Japanese whalers ' harpoons or handcuff themselves to the seal hunters ' vessels . |
| 13 | The hole may twist and turn and the ferret will do no more than tie itself to the root while simply passing along the burrow . |
| 14 | Bats , that wrap themselves against the light , |
| 15 | ‘ I guess some of us ‘ types ’ have better things to do with our lives than dedicate ourselves to the attraction of the opposite sex . ’ |
| 16 | Various chemical systems have been demonstrated over the years that can self-replicate , some in a way analogous to the replication of genetic material , using nucleotides as basic units that assemble themselves upon a template . |
| 17 | Too easily we stand still and pat ourselves on the back ; before long we are losing ground . |
| 18 | ‘ Come along in Katie and sit yourself by the fire . |
| 19 | ‘ Damnation ’ will approach his target and introduce himself with an opening line which usually goes something like , ‘ Hi . |
| 20 | Or you can go flying with Dumbo and lose yourself in the wonderland of ‘ Alice 's Curious Labyrinth . ’ . |
| 21 | Perhaps you could go and fight in one of those wars they 're always having somewhere and lose yourself in the din of battle . |
| 22 | ‘ Just go and lose yerself for a week , son . |
| 23 | Practise the above and familiarise yourself with the co-ordination required for turns in each direction before trying to fly proper circuits . |
| 24 | With a detergent in action millions of tadpole-like components , led by their hydrophobic tails , seek out and attach themselves to the surface of dirt at any interface and congregate there in order to avoid the water . |
| 25 | Using the cover of the bushes or whatever , I crouch as low as possible and manoeuvre myself into a position where I know I could cast to them , not forgetting to make a note of a landing site , for it is useless to hook a fish if you can not play it to the landing net . |
| 26 | ‘ My poor dears , come and warm yourselves by the fire . |
| 27 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
| 28 | So what I propose is that we put the notion of happiness back in its box and restrict ourselves to the word ‘ happy ’ , which people do in fact use in everyday circumstances . |
| 29 | While the Greed Is Good League threatens to fall apart — and who cares ? — while England 's team is outplayed in Spain , cricket 's selectors drop David Gower and hurl themselves into a whirlpool of crazy contradictions . |
| 30 | and with a leprous man came over and began doing a to him saying , Lord if you just want to you can make me clean , and so stretching out his hand he touched him saying , I want to be made clean and immediately his leprosy was , vanished away , then Jesus said to him , see that you tell no one , but go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses appointed for the purpose of a witness to them when he entered into Calpurnia that 's the other two , that the other |