Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You seem to have styled yourself as a knight in shining armour for her , and I admit she makes a rather sweet damsel in distress , but — ’ |
| 2 | Labour Front-Bench Members seem to have committed themselves to a single currency despite the fact that some of their Back-Bench supporters continue strongly to oppose it , although they are having difficulty with the question whether a European central bank would be independent . |
| 3 | And it 's not fair to say it 's because of the beard because the beard 's not my fault , they just did n't shave in the jungle in whatever century it 's going to be when we get there and I know I grew it early but that 's the way I am , I like to start thinking myself into the part as soon as possible . |
| 4 | Her mode of transport means she will arrive drenched at the door of a farmhouse to beg shelter and ask leave to dry herself by the fire . |
| 5 | And while we 've struggled to keep ourselves from the fridge , we have wondered why we long so intensely for one food . |
| 6 | So you 've got to present yourself on a business level . |
| 7 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 8 | You have got to accustom yourself to the book that is written from several different viewpoints . |
| 9 | ‘ Eight per cent is bad enough but then it goes up to 17.5 per cent so therefore we have got to prepare ourselves for the impact of that and try to minimise the impact on our customers . ’ |
| 10 | Dr Myerscough said : ‘ I have tried to put myself in the consultant 's shoes in this situation and I think his apparent instinct that he thought the time had come to induce labour was correct . ’ |
| 11 | In the past dozen years an alternative great idea has pulled them westward , as they have tried to dissolve themselves into the European Community . |
| 12 | Here for nearly 40 years , I have loved to prop myself against a lamp-post with a sketchbook , binoculars , a sandwich and a bottle of wine , to spend an idle hour or two observing the sea . |
| 13 | After all , if you have begun addressing yourself for the first time to such an issue you are more likely to be able to have the courage of your convictions at work in trying to tackle , for example , management by inertia . |
| 14 | The report 's authors claim that all three major political parties have failed to address themselves to the country 's ‘ housing emergency ’ . |
| 15 | In his Russian heartland the democrats , repeating the mistakes of their predecessors before 1917 , have failed to organise themselves into a cohesive opposition . |
| 16 | The third fact is that Paddy Ashdown 's Liberal Democrats have failed to establish themselves as a national political force . |
| 17 | An empirical orientation has in turn been reinforced by the experience of history — it is the approach that has always been employed and no external constraints have managed to force themselves on the nation to generate conditions in which a rationalist approach would be possible . |
| 18 | Five Thirty have managed to harness themselves into a sound that nods towards the '60s but keeps its arse firmly placed on a '90s seat and its head ensconced in a pretty rock 'n' roll street attitude . |
| 19 | Five Thirty have managed to harness themselves into a sound that nods towards the '60s but keeps its arse firmly placed on a '90s seat and its head ensconced in a pretty rock 'n' roll street attitude . |