Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [vb base] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd join the crimplene brigade , dress out of the Littlewoods club and resign myself to false teeth and a perm by the time I was 30 .
2 So how much you need to clear rent and see yourself past next month ? ’
3 The Malleny Park side has yet to decide on its final line-up but will relish the opportunity to end the season in a flourish at home and push themselves into third position .
4 Early on the morning of Dec. 19 Hawke announced that , at a meeting of the ALP caucus later that day , he would resign as leader and offer himself for immediate re-election to the post .
5 He had begun to drink a lot during the day as he had learned to go to the fridge and help himself to prepared squash .
6 So not everyone could become a cardholder and admit himself to another potential source of overindebtedness .
7 Obviously individuals may begin litigation on their own account and represent themselves in those proceedings , but otherwise only solicitors and barristers have the right to act as advocates in courts and only barristers in the higher courts , other than on formal or unopposed business .
8 Hilton tells him to wait patiently in the darkness and acclimatise himself to this new existence , stripped of all the things that had made life worthwhile before .
9 And we are coming dangerously near to admitting total defeat if we lamely accept the solution to street violence is for women to forego their liberty and put themselves under virtual night-time house arrest .
10 The children can also watch television on their own set or help themselves to soft drinks from their own bar , which gives Mum and Dad a chance to enjoy a leisurely drink on the verandah .
11 He was indeed fortunate in his local friends who recognised his ‘ propensity to Botanicks ’ ( Benjamin Franklin , Pennsylvania Gazette , 1742 ) , encouraged expeditions and subscribed ‘ to induce him and enable him wholly to spend his time and exert himself on these employments ’ .
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