Example sentences of "of [v-ing] yourself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breakfast and lunch is usually a question of helping yourself in the kitchen . |
| 2 | You do n't study these subjects at college : they are the incidental , unintended , beneficial result of submitting yourself to " the college experience " . |
| 3 | It is often possible , then , to understand and so overcome spelling errors , once you understand why you are making an error and can work out a way of reminding yourself of the correct form . |
| 4 | Beware , however , of drowning yourself in pages of notes . |
| 5 | Beware of over-committing yourself to the foot sweep . |
| 6 | In contrast , if you are white , and unless you actually subscribe to racist arguments , you will want to find ways of dissociating yourself from the views expressed here . |
| 7 | Apart from making sure that permanent mains-voltage lights are installed by a competent electrician , the main way of protecting yourself against getting an electric shock from garden lights is to install an RCD . |
| 8 | I laughed , and she said , ‘ Laughing is a way of protecting yourself from the truth . ’ |
| 9 | If you are well practised in a careful approach , having learned the art of blending yourself into the background and moving with the silence and stealth of a hungry alley-cat , then you will soon be close enough to identify them as chub . |
| 10 | The actual process of driving yourself in a Porsche makes you feel good . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Are you regretting making love to me , ’ he grated , ‘ or are you only regretting that you made love to me instead of saving yourself for André ? ’ |
| 12 | But for everyone there is a better way of expressing yourself at work or in complaining at the garage , for instance . |
| 13 | All the evidence seems to indicate that he had become a half-hearted Anglican — perhaps that was a safer way , after all , of establishing yourself as a respectable tradesman than anything which smacked in any way of revolt or radicalism ? |
| 14 | Whatever the size of land or terrace you have at your disposal , a little lateral thinking will prove that there are always ways and means of providing yourself with enough plant material to experiment with the very enjoyable pastime of pressing flowers . |
| 15 | er in terms of equipping yourself for erm er you know being er erm er well better able I suppose to , to work out where you could make er a , a , a , a real contribution you know ? |
| 16 | Although slight changes have been made to covenant administration , the principle of committing yourself to giving , for four or more years , remains the same . |
| 17 | You may be thinking of treating yourself to a holiday erm or something of that kind . |
| 18 | ‘ So why did n't you just look for another job , instead of involving yourself in such a risky undertaking ? ’ |
| 19 | Erm you gave a a very full account of the sort of pressures that erm you were under because you did n't have a job and you related it to the necessity of involving yourself in what you euphemistically called the black economy . |
| 20 | Until you know someone , you should beware of putting yourself into a position where you may be trapped , pestered , or embarrassed . |
| 21 | With real concentration and with conscious techniques , carefully followed , you can free many more hours for the activity of educating yourself in the wide ambit of a college life — social , intellectual , argumentative and sportive — and so grow in personality . |
| 22 | ‘ You have an unhappy knack , Michael Riven , of finding yourself in the thick of things . |
| 23 | I thought if someone brought you to your senses , before it was too late , you 'd have a chance , instead of throwing yourself into any trouble that came along . |
| 24 | There 's the percentage game of wage slavery , mortgage and pension plans , and then there 's the less predictable option of throwing yourself to the fates and seeing what happens . |
| 25 | A good way of familiarising yourself with the principle of intervallic interchange is to set yourself the following task , both on and away from your guitar . |
| 26 | It 's always essential to view the ridge you 've just conquered , for the serious purpose of hugging yourself with glee , and a wonderful view of The Grey Corries can be savoured from the war memorial on the A82 north of Spean Bridge . |
| 27 | ‘ You are more beautiful than I remember , ’ he murmured , his eyes alight , ‘ in spite of reducing yourself to a scarecrow . ’ |
| 28 | If you are nervous before having to use your voice , whether you are speaking to a conference or about to ask the bank manager for a loan , the first secret of success is to feel those nerves instead of tensing yourself against them . |