Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am devoting myself to this mystery because i want to be a man . ’ |
| 2 | Not simply because it shows that you are enjoying yourself at that moment but because it actually contributes to your physical and mental health . |
| 3 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 4 | If you 're basing yourself at one campsite place an old groundsheet or plastic sheet under the tent . |
| 5 | It seems to me two of the elements are lend themselves to some sort of arithmetical assessment an and the County 's gone through at . |
| 6 | Beyond that size , you would be paying more in compensation for the loss of marginal benefit of another inch than you would be saving yourself in reduced cost of the externality . |
| 7 | Or will the Chief Secretary and his friends be sunning themselves in some tax haven by that time ? |
| 8 | But I suggest that the human will be wetting itself for some time . ’ |
| 9 | If they did not know all of his plans , they would be placing themselves in great danger . |
| 10 | I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written . |
| 11 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 12 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 13 | In stressing this aspect , Marx and Engles were basing themselves in great part on the excellent description that Morgan had supplied for the matrilineal descent groups of the Iroquois , and , in his stress on the community aspect of descent groups , Morgan has been in many ways supported by later work . |
| 14 | But the means by which the Futurists were expressing themselves at this point were largely borrowed from the Cubists , and occasionally in some less well-informed criticism , the two terms became synonymous . |
| 15 | All over the burrow , both the newcomers and those who were at home were accustoming themselves to each other in their own way and their own time ; getting to know what the strangers smelt like , how they moved , how they breathed , how they scratched , the feel of their rhythms and pulses . |
| 16 | We think , therefore , that it is absolutely necessary in order to carry on the Business of this Establishment , as perfectly as possible , that two such Characters should be appointed — and we , in consequence suggest , that altho ’ each be as much as possible qualified in both Departments , yet if one were to devote himself to one Branch and the other to the other branch — the College would be much more usefully directed — for , if one Professor were fully qualified for both — yet so arduous a task could not possibly be executed by one Man only . |
| 17 | ‘ So you are bestirring yourself on this case ! |
| 18 | Additionally , there may be a number of general domestic or luxury items which you had been promising yourself for some time and the only question is one of actual timing , i.e. determining the right moment to buy . |
| 19 | The print industry is bracing itself for industrial action from next Monday , Printing World reports . |
| 20 | Back with a ragga version of a Beatles song , he 's bracing himself for another savaging , but at least he 's got a hit , he tells TERRY STAUNTON . |
| 21 | The male 's usual pattern is to position himself on higher ground , above the females , keeping careful watch on their every move . |
| 22 | At this momentous hour His Excellency the Governor of Burma is to dedicate himself to Almighty God for the task with which he has been entrusted . |
| 23 | The acquisition of the sacred relic of the blood of Christ by the important monastery of Reichenau ( on Lake Constance ) in the 920s , its veneration there , and Otto I 's associating himself with that veneration , is an example of this religious feeling . |
| 24 | She 's throwing herself at that man , making a complete fool of herself . |
| 25 | Its sudden reappearance , a product of the uncertain economic times in Eastern Europe , at first seemed easily explained , but whether it was wartime booty or a token of gratitude , whether a museum who may or may not have owned it wanted it back or not , whether it was legally correct or amoral , by putting it up for auction ( and illustrating it on the catalogue cover ) Sotheby 's assured themselves of one thing : whatever they did would be wrong . |
| 26 | Sometimes this seemed indicated , as when he told the legislature they must beware ‘ When we are freeing ourselves from one form of imperialism [ against those who would ] … bind us to another one which would swiftly undo all the work that has been done in recent years to foster … a free and independent nation ’ ; ‘ As we would not have British masters , so we would not have Russian masters . ’ |
| 27 | In the ornate new council chamber , Mayor Murphy was trying to convince the city council that to be a real Edwardian Mayor he ought to wear mayoral robes , as they did in England ; the newly extended hospital was bracing itself for additional accident cases ; and Hank Stych stood in the airport at Calgary waiting for a local plane to take him north to Tollemarche . |
| 28 | Arthur and Geoff were already there and the ARP organist was surpassing himself with appropriate music . |
| 29 | So in the end it would be Maxim 's name on the pieces of paper , not whatever Sims was calling himself on this trip . |
| 30 | He was defending himself with great skill , every now and then sliding his hands down the staff and striking at a distance with its full length , and then suddenly changing direction and bringing the shortened end up in a jab at the face or stomach of one of the attackers he had tempted to come too close . |