Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tend to isolate ourselves from the rest of the natural world and yet we are very much a part of it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But it comes down to how openly you want to express yourself as a Muslim . |
| 5 | TOURING America with your home at your back is a popular option for familes and travellers on a budget who want to free themselves from the hassle of searching for somewhere to get their heads down each night . |
| 6 | ‘ I want to put myself on the map and this Test is a good chance to start doing it . ’ |
| 7 | You can vanish , fleet as the wind , and contrive to lock yourself in the bog . |
| 8 | Recognizing all this , and being shown too where the power lies in this social order , the politics of inversion become persuasive , perhaps irresistible ; this is Moll , about to thrash the predatory Laxton : ‘ I scorn to prostitute myself to a man , /that can prostitute a man to me ’ ( iii . |
| 9 | These elections concluded the business of the first day of the Leeds Congress , on which , in the words of the preamble to the constitution of the BDDA : The Deaf and Dumb of Great Britain and Ireland agree[d] to form themselves into an Association for the advancement and protection of their interests in every possible way ( in such a manner as will not interfere with the work of the existing societies ) . |
| 10 | And I always seem to poke myself in the eye with mascara . ’ |
| 11 | With cries of ‘ oi gevalt ’ and ‘ keender ! keender ! ’ from Mum and Dad and screams of fear from the girls , the three bodies eventually manage to extricate themselves from the floor . |
| 12 | And these final comments , addressed over the child 's death , seem to justify themselves in the sense that the playwright is speaking not only from experience , but for all the parents who dread that this might happen to them . |
| 13 | ‘ People begin to doubt themselves in a run like we have experienced . |
| 14 | ‘ People begin to doubt themselves in a run like we have experienced . |
| 15 | She had even felt her mouth begin to twist itself into a grin … . |
| 16 | Such parties , as always , like to equate themselves with the sense of collective separateness , hostility to ‘ them ’ and the ‘ imagined community ’ which may be almost universally felt in their ‘ nation ’ , but they are very unlikely to be the only expression of such a national consensus . |
| 17 | I 'm perfectly happy to plead a two-year-old 's birthday and then wiggle , flatter and schmooze to get myself off the hook . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's definitely an experience and I try to give myself to the moment and make the most of it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Except when prevented by medical reasons or other sufficient cause , candidates who fail to present themselves for an examination , or to submit cumulative or other forms of assessment work by the due date , shall be deemed by the board of examiners to have failed in that examination or assessment . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Serious effects fail to show themselves in the majority of reasonably pacific , law-abiding citizens , who , as a boy or girl , enjoyed the sense of power and childish delight of identifying with a fictional hero . |
| 24 | You learn to love him though your sister ; you learn to enjoy at second hand what she enjoys , and you come to regard yourself as a non-person , an appendage , the other twin , the dull one . |
| 25 | ‘ If you wish to avail yourself of the bathroom facilities , feel free . |
| 26 | To achieve the latter I have to see myself as an object , to know how my regretting might appear . |
| 27 | If you 're not receiving supplementary pension , you have to claim yourself from the council . |
| 28 | Before all that , however , England have to readdress themselves to the problem of defeating the Irish and the Dutch , who beat them in Stuttgart and Dusseldorf last year . |
| 29 | The only thing they really lacked was that extra bit of meanness that you need to impose yourself on a game . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |