Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some transracial adopters may prefer to isolate themselves from the cultural background and ethnic origin of their child because it is easier in the short run to escape conflicts . |
| 2 | All right , I 'll put a sling on that arm , and if the pain gets worse you must promise to take yourself to the hospital . ’ |
| 3 | The speaker in the afternoon was Sue Beardon , of Voluntary Action-Leeds , and she helped delegates understand what they must do to prepare themselves for the new ways of working . |
| 4 | Do n't you think that maybe it was just a teeny-weeny bit curious or stupid or disgusting that Morrissey should choose to wrap himself in the flag ? |
| 5 | In the front hall — in case any burglar should choose to throw himself through the fireproof glass in the window or slice through the mortise lock with a flame gun — was a selection of things to trip over . |
| 6 | He should have placed himself in the middle between Laura and Maggie he thought . |
| 7 | It is a consideration which I should have applied myself to the assessment of general damages to favour this plaintiff . |
| 8 | Dawn Allenby , a masochist if ever there was one , should have prostrated herself at the feet of Desmond Fairchild , a sadist in a trilby hat worn with the brim turned up all the way round like vaudeville comic . |
| 9 | ‘ If you had warned me then of the horrors in store , I should have thrown myself under the stage rather than have travelled inside it . ’ |
| 10 | It must have transmitted itself to the patients , for even they gave up after their initial attempts at jollity , and by mid-morning a definite air of gloom seemed to have settled over the place . |
| 11 | She must have thrown herself down the stairs ! |
| 12 | ‘ Sometimes we can argue , but on this occasion we 'll have to throw ourselves on the mercy of the court because once again , and this was the second time running , simple , basic errors cost us the game . ’ |
| 13 | You 'll have to break yourself of the habit of bobbing up and down every time my daughter appears , especially when she looks like this . ’ |
| 14 | I 'll try to lose myself on the way into the factory . ’ |
| 15 | — as she might have said herself at the time ) . |
| 16 | Such a context might have presented itself during the struggle to secure the passage of the Reform Bill . |
| 17 | Alternatively , you might have found yourself without the ready money you needed to snap up a bargain — like that washing machine you saw in the sales . |
| 18 | Had John Dorahy not rashly attempted a dropped goal on the first tackle in the closing stages , the Second Division side might have found themselves in the final . |
| 19 | Had they followed the example of Aled Williams , who scored a scintillating try around the Neath cover , the game might have released itself from the siege strangehold . |
| 20 | ‘ And my name 's Ashley Fleming , ’ Ashley said , fearful that Simon might start patting himself on the back yet again . |
| 21 | Charles could have kicked himself for the cliché . |
| 22 | She could have kicked herself for the remark , for allowing Piers to see how much he got underneath her skin , but she could n't prevent herself . |
| 23 | It was extraordinary that lips so tight could produce any sound , that Lorrimer 's voice , high and distorted , could have forced itself through the vocal cords without splitting them . |
| 24 | ‘ We could have re-established ourselves as the football channel . |
| 25 | The eagle was so evidently , so ferociously beautiful ; one would have thought that it could have impressed itself upon the most unwilling beholder . |
| 26 | ‘ If I 'd know what you were , I 'd have killed myself in the Lubianka . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ And then you 'd have to haul yourself into the loft . |
| 28 | If I 'd admitted to myself how I really felt about him I 'd have thrown myself into the whole thing , body and soul . |
| 29 | In my first year in a London art school my two major preoccupations were whether you really could see William Turner 's late canvases as a precursor to French Impressionism , and how the hell I could afford to clothe myself in the right gear to make a stunning impact on my new friends at the Gateways . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm not sure that I 'd care to expose myself to the distortions you wreak upon your subject 's features . ’ |