Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll obviously want to make it , you do n't want to make it too short you 're going to have enough words to get yourself a good mark . |
| 2 | As on his visit to Peking in May , the Soviet President this weekend risks finding himself an unwilling player in a domestic political drama which eclipses the notional reason for his presence . |
| 3 | Now ecologists found themselves the veritable gurus of our age . |
| 4 | Zambian broadcasters found themselves a long way down the civil service hierarchy and were accordingly poorly paid , some earning the meagre salary of a junior clerk ; certain technical studio operators received little more than messengers did . |
| 5 | I can with a few deft strokes build myself a crenellated castle with coloured windows , or a maze of evergreen , or a field of rippling corn , or a fat blackbird with bright eyes picking at a cluster of red berries . |
| 6 | For the mass of Muslims this is a non-issue — though I think British and European Muslim communities did themselves a colossal disservice in the beginning by failing to dissociate themselves properly from terrorist acts . |
| 7 | He argues that a demand which emanated from the earnings of export staples became itself the driving force behind even greater efforts to balance the increasing import of desired English manufactured goods . |
| 8 | Sadly , manufacturers of more modern machines save themselves a few pennies and if it is ‘ user ports ’ or analogue to digital converters that are required then the customer must dig even more deeply into his or her pocket ! |
| 9 | Roe , already third , fourth and fifth in European tour events this year , said : ‘ I birdied the first three holes to give myself a flying start and never really looked back . ’ |
| 10 | Systemhouse sees the acquisition , the terms of which have not been disclosed , as the breakthrough in its efforts to build itself a powerful facilities management operation and capability in the UK . |
| 11 | as if to confirm that they had rejected the old emphasis on local political organizations , the new studies gave themselves a new title . |
| 12 | They met up and talked with the carpenters ' committee , who would have lent £3,000 out of their fund of £20,000 had they not been astonished to learn that the knitters had themselves no permanent fund " to answer any demand at any time " . |
| 13 | The headhunting phenomenon of moving teams gained itself a bad name , and it is clear that such a practice is still scorned by many of the most reputable executive search firms and by many companies too , although it is accepted that it happened comparatively rarely . |
| 14 | At a recent meeting of the , I believe the , first of the Estuaries Management Committee Meetings for the Orwell and the Stour I was approached by the R S P B representative and was delighted to be asked , how soon is the pamphlets that we 're jointly publishing coming out and I said , oh that 's a jolly good idea , what 's happening , and he tells me that the R Y A's name is to be published with the R S P B and this can do nothing but help our image as we will all appreciate in here , perhaps we need to remember that the gun clubs call themselves , the Gun and Convers Conservation Societies , the wide wise wild fowlers call themselves the Wild Fowlers and Conservation Societies , perhaps we should be the Royal Yachting and Conservation Society and join in with that R S P B publication for I believe quite a very small sum relative to the total outlay . |
| 15 | Each of the lower feeders had their own cropping techniques , and a general assumption can be made that such techniques had themselves a co-evolutionary impact on plants . |
| 16 | The move followed a series of attacks on white teachers by a group of pro-PAC black youths calling themselves the Revolutionary Watchdogs . |
| 17 | He himself was overthrown and killed in October 1987 by a faction of the armed forces calling itself the Popular Front , which established itself as Burkina 's source of legislative and executive power . |
| 18 | He himself was overthrown and killed in October 1987 by a faction of the armed forces calling itself the Popular Front . |
| 19 | A lot of girls compromised themselves a great deal more than I did . ’ |
| 20 | One of my many dear children earned himself a creditable degree in environmental sciences a couple of years ago . |
| 21 | … at the same time they should be getting the children to ask themselves the same questions that the staff are asking about the work . |
| 22 | The start of every cricket season causes cricketers of all standards and all ages to ask themselves the basic question , ‘ have I still got the old skills ? |
| 23 | Do you use other instruments to give yourself a different texture or feel when you 're songwriting ? |
| 24 | Nearly 50% of all women allow themselves a once-a-year bet on the horses , according to a recent Gallup survey conducted for the UK 's largest bookmaker , Ladbrokes . |
| 25 | This meant that country could keep on running during the war , and , proving that they could do the same jobs as men , women gave themselves an enormous boost in the push for votes . |
| 26 | Just because our MPs give themselves a three-and-a-half week break does n't mean we can all benefit from copying them . |
| 27 | In the 19th Century the working classes , exasperated by their plight and the lack of initiative of their employers , formed into trades unions to give themselves the corporate strength which individuals lacked . |