Example sentences of "[vb pp] yourself [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A business that you may never have considered yourself involved in ; publishing .
2 " Well , you do realise , Mr Grout , that by resigning you have made yourself ineligible for Unemployment Benefit for a period of —
3 Once you have made yourself familiar with the basic sewing processes , you will then be able to cope with any of the projects in this book .
4 If he succumbs to temptation after all and suffers the consequences , it would be to the point to say ‘ You should have known better ’ or ‘ You ought to have had more sense ’ , reproaches which derive their authority from ‘ Face facts ’ ; but it would be irrelevant ( and exasperating ) to say ‘ You should n't have made yourself ill like that ’ , on the authority of the ‘ You do n't want to be sick ’ of the practical syllogism interpreted as ‘ Do n't get sick ’ .
5 From your unconscious there may rise ideas , characters , actions you never would have believed yourself capable of thinking of .
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