Example sentences of "[be] [verb] yourself [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are allowing yourself a daily ration of alcohol , allow these calories in addition to a minimum calories ' worth of food and milk from the F-Plan menus . |
| 2 | fact if you do n't inhale at all you 're doing yourself a big favour , but you nearly always get some down ion to the system and really the o the only thing I could ethically recommend as a doctor , is stopping . |
| 3 | And if you just put it in a slightly more formal way on radio , that 's what you 're doing is , you 're not shifting the buck , you 're answering the question , you 're just , you 're giving yourself a bit of leeway . |
| 4 | Now if you knew which numbers were selected less frequently than others , and you kept that information to yourself and you bet on those numbers that were selected less frequently , then unless there 's any special reason why those numbers should produce fewer score draws than other numbers , you 're giving yourself an advantage because on the weeks in which those numbers produce score draws there are fewer people who 'll have them down as their numbers , and so there 's more money around for those few people who have them down , including you , and so if you win , then you 'd expect to win more money . |
| 5 | It may just be with a weekly magazine and a cream cake , but you are giving yourself a pat on the back . |
| 6 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 7 | You are doing yourself a lot of harm by keeping me here like this interrogating me about matters which are protected by the official secrets legislation . ’ |
| 8 | That means you 'd be denying yourself the beauty and privilege of being a parent . ’ |
| 9 | Your goal should be to exert yourself a little more each time until you reach a brisk pace and you feel comfortable with it . |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose one of these days you 'll be getting yourself a skirt . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Maybe he looks all right ; but if you buy that horse you 'll be buying yourself a packet o' trouble . ’ |
| 12 | Make sure none of the window area is included within the shot otherwise you could be giving yourself a problem with backlighting . |
| 13 | Do you realise that by simply replying to this letter , you could be giving yourself a tax free lump sum of up to £100,000 . |
| 14 | Do you realise that by simply replying to this letter , you could be giving yourself a tax free lump sum of up to £100,000 ? |
| 15 | Right , well , well , actually yes , what , what you look at , is , is what 's important to you and you put a cash value on it , and it might be the mortgage , it might be education , it might be giving yourself a couple of years ' salary and paying debts or whatever , er , and the security of knowing that O K , if I die , I 'm not leaving a problem for my family , but at the same time if I 'm in a situation where I get a serious illness and I ca n't bring in an income , I 'm securing my , my , my future in that respect . |
| 16 | Sometime in the near future you may have to go for an interview and therefore you will be asking yourself the following questions : |
| 17 | In your old age you 'll be making yourself an instant cup of tea |
| 18 | If you were to serve yourself an average helping of cabbage , though , it would usually weigh at least two ounces if you were eating it raw as part of a portion of coleslaw , for example , or four ounces if you were serving boiled cabbage . |
| 19 | The best way to go about proper practice is to find yourself a partner of similar standard , who is equally keen to improve , and spend hours sweating and toiling on the practice court . |
| 20 | Janet Parsons knows what it is to find yourself a victim of crime . |
| 21 | Study takes time and the best way to use it is to set yourself a programme . |
| 22 | So one of the ways to overcome that is to set yourself a target to do more |
| 23 | A good way of familiarising yourself with the principle of intervallic interchange is to set yourself the following task , both on and away from your guitar . |
| 24 | after it 's been cut the least you can do is give yourself a shake |
| 25 | or NAAN , I do n't care , so long you include it at the end of your first appointments because at the end of the day all you 're doing is saving yourself a bit of time , and that 's the whole purpose of ANNA to make sure that when you go back on your second appointment , this guy is committed to do something . |
| 26 | The second is to buy yourself a good waterproof mascara but remember you may need to buy a suitable eye make-up remover , too . |
| 27 | One good way of starting the dreaming process is to give yourself a physical check-up . |
| 28 | The first thing you need to do with any machine , if you possibly can , is to give yourself a " hands on " session to get to know how it works . |
| 29 | This is most important with approach putts where the intention is to leave yourself an easy second putt as opposed to going boldly at the hole . |
| 30 | To buy a Stag just for its investment potential is to deny yourself the sort of al fresco luxury that most people can only dream about in a new car . |