Example sentences of "have [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so doing , it has committed itself to protect the area and prevent deterioration to its habitats . |
| 2 | Eltharion accepted and has busied himself strengthening the land of Yvresse ever since . |
| 3 | He has made himself appear a poodle of the executive . ‘ |
| 4 | He tells his mother he has cut himself to explain the blood on his jeans . |
| 5 | But it was quite clear this time what the answer must be ; she 'd felt herself call the magic , felt it respond to her . |
| 6 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 7 | MANY of us were brought up on stories of great inventors and individualistic engineers , and have since had to reeducate ourselves to understand the development of science and technology as a social process , or even to believe that inventions are ‘ socially constructed ’ . |
| 8 | To tell hospital managers that they should have paced themselves to spread the money over the full year is a denial of all the theoretical advantages of a free market . |
| 9 | If you see something that tickles your fancy you 'll have to force yourself to bring the waiter outside and use sign language . |
| 10 | ‘ I am in the pink , ’ said Dot , though she knew she was n't or she would n't have allowed herself to weep the day before . |
| 11 | I was too young to know that the having to tell myself gave the game away ; and that to be uninhibited about one 's own sexual activities is not the same as being unshockable . |
| 12 | Civilian paramilitary units operated in several parts of Yugoslavia , notably among the Serbs of Kosovo and in Croatia , where extremists in the ruling Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) had armed themselves to counter the insurgency by armed bands operating in the republic 's Serbian municipalities . |
| 13 | Cathy was pale and drawn and she looked tired-not , he thought , like a woman who , expecting the sack , had found herself owning the business . |
| 14 | Ever since she had held the baby she had found herself treating the doll in the same way . |
| 15 | With the income from the three films he had completed in eighteen months , he had stretched himself to buy a house in Beverly Hills . |
| 16 | In that work Tolkien had set himself to write a romance for an audience brought up on novels . |
| 17 | The sea was so cold she had to force herself to take the plunge . |
| 18 | They saw his body in the moat , where he had thrown himself to escape the mob . |
| 19 | In more than two years of living with one band of Semai , my wife and I witnessed only two instances of large-scale co-operative action , one of which I had to organize myself to mobilize a labour force to repair a dangerously deteriorated suspension bridge which nearly everyone in the band used every day , and which was literally on the verge of collapse . |
| 20 | I did n't believe her : my sense of superiority had extended itself to include a conviction of my own immortality . |
| 21 | We have committed ourselves to increase the programme on school buildings by 16 per cent . |
| 22 | The only area in which the courts have examined the use of the Chinese wall in any significant depth concerns the use of walls by firms of solicitors which have found themselves advising a client who has an adversarial relationship with a former client . |
| 23 | Since August last year I have found myself spending a fortune as I desperately wanted to compete in the ‘ Sound Off Championships ’ 1992 . |
| 24 | As I have already said , we have pledged ourselves to maintain the pension 's real value . |
| 25 | But you have to force yourself to accept the truth — that Paris is always an escape downwards ( G.P. 's words ) — not saying anything against Paris , but you have to face up to England and the apathy of the environment ( these are all G.P. 's words and ideas ) and the great deadweight of the Calibanity of England . |