Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to put myself on the map and this Test is a good chance to start doing it . ’ |
| 2 | When I want to find myself in the dream of the New Look , I have to reconstruct the picture , look down at my sandals and the hem of my dress , for in the dream itself I am only an eye , watching . |
| 3 | The usual stratagems and repositionings have failed to induce narcosis in me , so I decide to settle myself against the soft zigzag of her body . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's definitely an experience and I try to give myself to the moment and make the most of it . |
| 5 | This is a subject to which I shall return , but for the moment I prefer to confine myself to the typical picture and to show where my own circumstances coincided with it or diverged from it . |
| 6 | Because I need to purge myself of the past more than anything . |
| 7 | When I finish playing , I hope to follow Mick Channon into racing but before that happens I have to prove myself in the Premier League . |
| 8 | And you know very well that as soon as you start to launch yourself into the world of contracting by , by its very nature a contract a a automatically has loopholes in it , and the more you write in a contract the more loopholes you 've got . |
| 9 | ‘ Unless you wish to initiate yourself into the ultimate joys of sex right now , be still . |
| 10 | ‘ If you wish to avail yourself of the bathroom facilities , feel free . |
| 11 | I was thinking of ethnography , which means you have to immerse yourself in the situation and talk to the people involved like an anthropologist would . |
| 12 | If you 're not receiving supplementary pension , you have to claim yourself from the council . |
| 13 | Yes I mean it does n't go down well and I 'll say the things you have to do when you when you 're helping to run a club , you have to commit yourself to the club and you have to do the jobs that th presented by the club . |
| 14 | Because you will not have it accepted if it is not in the house style , and there are conventions , appropriate , and quite different , according to the magazine , the newspaper , and so on and so forth , so you need to acquaint yourself with the house style . |
| 15 | We tend to isolate ourselves from the rest of the natural world and yet we are very much a part of it . |
| 16 | We seek to rid ourselves of the awful thought that we might have some responsibility for what has happened . |
| 17 | We try to involve ourselves with the Austrian authorities as little as possible . ’ |
| 18 | But , Szeliga says : ‘ We are not coming in to buy market share ; we aim to promote ourselves at the quality and mid-priced end of the market . |
| 19 | In this short debate , we have to address ourselves to the question whether the discount of 25 per cent . |
| 20 | We need to remind ourselves of the nature of judicial authority in the context of fundamental questions of constitutional law , as discussed above ( pp.33–41 ) . |
| 21 | We need to remind ourselves of the variations between different types of employer , different types of job and different types of qualification ; but also of the difficulties employers may have in understanding the meaning of more than a very few qualifications . |
| 22 | We need to put ourselves in the other person 's shoes . ’ |
| 23 | They tend to consider themselves as the true bearers of Islam , forgetting that four out every five Muslims are not Arabs . |
| 24 | seven o'clock , well I thought I 'd come a bit earlier forget that they want a tidy living room , they want to get the toys out of the way , they want to present themselves in the best possible light so they 'd be more forgiving if you 're late than if you 're too early to be on time . |
| 25 | Once dormant , however , their metabolism slows down so much that the pineal is virtually switched off , and how they manage to rouse themselves at the correct time remains a mystery . |
| 26 | Mary Daly , in Pure Lust ( 1984 ) , a polemical book subtitled ‘ Elemental Feminist Philosophy ’ which explicitly and insistently refuses to fit the usual categories of what philosophy is supposed to consist of , argues that the passions and their relation to reason must be renamed , and thus reunderstood by women if they wish to free themselves from the constrictions inherent in the male naming of them . |
| 27 | Activity Catechist — the person who ensures that all friends and helpers in the group have what they need to prepare themselves for the sacred experience — both in equipment and atmosphere . |
| 28 | Most of us want to see ourselves on the screen — although it may turn out to be an unpleasant experience ! — but we 're not usually terribly interested in watching the performance of others . |
| 29 | London Underground is spending £100,000 on research to find out why so many of us like to toss ourselves on the rails . |