Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He merely stared at her with his bulging eyes and she went on : ‘ There are biscuits in the tin by the cooker and there is plenty of milk if you want to make yourself a hot drink . ’ |
| 2 | Try to allocate yourself a set time each day when you will practise your exercises . |
| 3 | I know north of border , nothing happens south of the border and like but , but we do deliver down here so do , do give yourself a little practise of that . |
| 4 | We 've won ourselves a new world . |
| 5 | Incidentally , Willoughby , you 've earned yourself a black mark for that little trouble . |
| 6 | Later , Madge had said : ‘ You 've got yourself a smashing lad there , Marie ! |
| 7 | So , Jay , you 've set yourself a wonderful conundrum . |
| 8 | Derry 's unfancied squad , written off by a lot of football pundits , are so keen to prove their detractors wrong , that they 've set themselves a demanding series of targets for the remaining four matches . |
| 9 | Then she had nodded slowly , and said , ‘ Sylvie , you know that you 've found yourself an elaborate means of coming to terms with your own childhood . |
| 10 | We 've amused ourselves a little bit by putting William 's initials on there and the arms of his wife who was called Joan . |
| 11 | Well we kept on like that and er er people like that we were packing up wholesale so erm I 've lost myself a little bit now . |
| 12 | North , second in the table and also undefeated , have given themselves a great chance of pulling off a win which will close the gap at the top . |
| 13 | The Government have given themselves a permanent contributions holiday by no longer making an Exchequer contribution to the national insurance fund . |
| 14 | The privatised boards have given themselves an inbuilt incentive to exploit their monopoly position . |
| 15 | The more fully we have developed ourselves the more cause for such gratitude we will have , and the more we understand the cosmos , particularly by grasping the true nature of detailed parts of it and their place in the total scheme , the more we will appreciate the sheer wonderfulness of it , and arrive at a kind of mystical adoration of it . |
| 16 | ‘ They need to find themselves a decent bloke , ’ said William 's nan once , presumably meaning four decent blokes as she was not a great advocate of polygamy . |
| 17 | Costs have got themselves a terrible name , mainly because narrow-minded finance people have concentrated on reducing them in an effort to increase profit . |
| 18 | However , you also need to give yourself a flying start by stimulating the circulation through massage and natural herbal extracts . |
| 19 | We need to challenge ourselves , to move ourselves on , but we need to give ourselves a safe framework in which to do so . |
| 20 | Rather than elevating the rights of the fetus to the exclusion of all the other factors , we have set ourselves the primary task of helping other women who face the dilemma of unwanted childbearing . |
| 21 | We have allowed ourselves a little licence with the sauce , ’ Angelina explained . |
| 22 | Here we need to ask ourselves a whole range of questions associated with the ways in which staff are managed in general and about the ways in which appraisal will be managed in the future — for there are choices to be made there in particular . |