Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] and [verb] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-five metres away , he disengaged the autoreturn sequence and navigated himself to a point level with the outside rim of the rotating Lift . |
| 2 | Canals may have performed a general price-lowering function in , to use Professor Mathias 's phrase , " cracking open " local monopolies , but it should not be forgotten that they were in themselves mono-polies , even though canal companies hardly ever operated carrier services and confined themselves to earning from tolls . |
| 3 | The first is that spring is in the air , so it 's time to dust away the winter cobwebs and treat yourself to a new look ! |
| 4 | I filed them neatly in the waste basket and helped myself to a cigarette . |
| 5 | Jacques Delors , the President of the Commission of the European Communities ( EC ) , proposed on March 7 that the EC go beyond establishing a joint foreign and security policy and commit itself to a common European defence policy . |
| 6 | Well , that 's the way it goes , Piper , ’ and in the same breath , ‘ look in that canvas bag on the back seat and help yourself to what you want . ’ |
| 7 | Structures predominantly based on tensile members offer big savings in self weight and lend themselves to lightweight and long span conditions . |
| 8 | As we discussed at our first meeting and as I subsequently discussed with Angela Rumbold , it was very clear that unless there was a preparedness on the part of the Home Office to take its hands off the management of the Prison Service in its day to day business and allow itself to be constrained by matters of policy only , then it would not be possible to effect the changes which you deem desirable and which have become very clear to me as being necessary during the talks I have had and the visits I have made . |
| 9 | She thrust back the bright patchwork quilt and levered herself to a sitting position , her feet dangling over the edge of the bed . |
| 10 | Digital Equipment Corp executives remark that the Open Software Foundation better make some progress in the coming months stitching up the wounds of the old Unix wars and accommodating itself to new alliances or else it 's going to have a lot of trouble getting funding from its sponsors next year . |
| 11 | Pop along to the London institute of Beauty Culture and treat yourself to their new Specialised Back Treatment . |
| 12 | Failing that you could check out your bank balance and treat yourself to a stay at Champneys health resort which has recently installed a Skier 's Edge and where they gear workouts to your ski-specific needs . |
| 13 | It then finds a hiding place and attaches itself to a branch with silk . |
| 14 | D'Arcy punched the intercom button and introduced himself to the disembodied Oriental voice at the other end . |
| 15 | One of those kittenish creatures he remembered from the films of his childhood in the Fifties , clad in waist-high , baby-doll nightdresses , women who seemed to enjoy nothing more than lying back among the yellow nylon sheets and allowing themselves to be strangled . |