Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Over the next few weeks it will slowly grow itself a new set of entrails .
2 ‘ T is so no more ’ , that is , he can no longer consider himself the same person — he has become , at last , a human being ( line 36 ) , not a dreaming poet , and he can not go back to the earlier state .
3 Do not just give yourself the whole week off .
4 I 'd just get myself a fine eejit of a man to keep me in barley sugar all day . ’
5 If I can keep up the Peter Sellers act long enough without dying of laughing , I might just get meself a few pints out of it .
6 ‘ Did not he ever show himself a loyal supporter of the late king your husband ? ’
7 An Ellyrian mounted on a black horse can often find himself a prime target for Dark Elf attacks
8 " You 're earning £60,000 a year and you ca n't even buy yourself a decent suit . "
9 We think back to the antihero of Notes from Underground lamenting that he ca n't even call himself a lazy man , and we think sideways to Svidrigailov : ‘ Believe me , if only I were something ; a landowner , say , or a father , a cavalry officer , a photographer , a journalist say — but I 'm nothing , I 've no speciality . ’
10 He might even allow himself a wry laugh when he considers how the West has come to excoriate Ceausescu today , after all those years when they applauded his ‘ daring ’ dissent from Warsaw Pact orthodoxy , and acting as a thorn in the Kremlin 's body politic .
11 He suddenly wondered whether she smiled like that because she could rarely allow herself the full release of a complete smile , but must always keep one side of her lips tucked under control .
12 Do not accept offers of tea or coffee if this is your problem as you will then give yourself the further anxiety of controlling the cup and saucer .
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