Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In social situations , most of us want to enjoy ourselves through pleasant company and good food and wine . |
| 2 | Comment : Very useful device when you want to ingratiate yourself with another person who is trying hard to play high status . |
| 3 | Straightforward in principle , although highly complex in technical detail , the majority of today 's desk-top fax machines rarely seek to sell themselves with seductive design ( the usual Japanese route to consumer appeal ) ; they just sit there , looking like little photocopiers or big telephones , doing what they are supposed to do . |
| 4 | Erm , I seem to find myself in this committee in a minority of one . |
| 5 | Hong Kong and Bangkok tend to be lumped together in holiday brochures under the same Far East tag , and indeed , it makes sense to visit both if you just happen to find yourself in that part of the world . |
| 6 | If you are out shopping , get tired , and are tempted by a cake and a cup of coffee , your overall health regime should not suffer because you decide to enjoy yourself in this way occasionally . |
| 7 | I mean to arm myself from this day on — be warned , lest you are tempted to trespass on my confidence . |
| 8 | On the face of it , this is similar to accommodation theory : speakers approximate their interlocutors ' linguistic behaviour , or distance themselves from it , depending on whether or not they wish to identify themselves with that individual . |
| 9 | Unsupported ideas thus tend to lend themselves to easy dismissal , or to non-citation ( which is a form of editorial comment ) . |
| 10 | Because of the ever-present restlessness , the attempt by people who are in pain at all times , to overcome the pain or to reach out , to speak up , in demonstrations and protests — even just the manner in which the people have to carry themselves from one day to another . |
| 11 | On the other hand , shaky close-ups , even of magnificent beasts , are not very good to watch and you really need to provide yourself with some kind of additional support to help you hold the camcorder steady . |
| 12 | I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is as amazed as I am that Labour Front-Bench spokesmen refuse to dissociate themselves from that position , and therefore stand to reject ’ alien investment ’ . |
| 13 | These were the people who used that experience to free themselves from intellectual slavery to any party , but who did not lose the innocence of faith in the human capacity to change the world for the better . |
| 14 | Again , I repeat with this problem of unemployment and so on , and the really obscene level of unemployment in this country at the moment — absolutely shocking I think — and I think the universities have to address themselves to that problem . |
| 15 | So that when you introduce yourself , you are seen as a haulier , was the phrase you used , er , and we , we 'd all need to spend an awful lot of time and an awful lot of effort into raising ourselves above that image , I mean there 's nothing wrong with being a haulier , all I 'm saying is that we have to raise ourselves above that image . |
| 16 | These people have spiritual needs as real as ours are , so we need to ask ourselves in this parish what are we doing to help them ? |
| 17 | There may be times when you need to remind yourself of this fact . |
| 18 | In addition , 1992 will see the European Community as one free market and we have to prepare ourselves for further competition from other EC countries . |