Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise it is rather like spending several days journeying to a famous tourist site , but when we get there only allowing ourselves 20 minutes to see it . |
| 2 | ‘ We made ourselves some ro is , and when we 'd eaten them , I set out for home . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's important we keep our run going and why should n't we think ourselves genuine title contenders . ’ |
| 4 | Social justice means that we deny ourselves many things so that others may have to do without them as well , or , what is the same thing , may not be able to ask for them . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've got a hope , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I 'll bore meself silly readin' this stuff , and I 'll get an 'eadache as well . |
| 6 | These are the things that make us afraid , and we build ourselves secure places so as that we ca n't or do n't have any need to be afraid . |
| 7 | possible that Paul has had a already had a reply from the Destiny people , you know , the ap at my urging Paul joins these people to find himself another girl because I 'm so sick of hearing about Karen who 's treated him made a fool of him totally |
| 8 | Schmeichel excelled himself as Torpedo 's blond danger man Talalayev suddenly found himself 14 yards from goal but his cannon shot was miraculously pushed away by the goalkeeper . |
| 9 | He is New York 's schools chancellor , head of the public schools system , and he found himself last week on public trial . |
| 10 | Benjamin , who had been walking for a month , found himself less welcome in his mother 's room and followed Ruth around the house like a pet lamb . |
| 11 | No injuries ; they 're unchanged , which means Nicky Summerbee has won that number 8 shirt and can consider himself first choice . |
| 12 | Returning from the Mort Homme , Raymond Jubert introspectively posed himself three questions : |
| 13 | Partner Ferdinand has had his back to the wall in the last few months , a troublesome disc plaguing his attempts to establish himself last spring and resulting in him coming home early from America . |
| 14 | Before we leave Glamorgan , a word of congratulation to Stephen James , who has been opening in place of Butcher and compiling runs with the kind of technique that reveals how earnestly he is trying to establish himself this summer . |
| 15 | It was their fence , and it was coming down , and she had pointed that out to Frederick , and she had known he would n't do anything about it , any more than he would buy himself new underpants . |
| 16 | — the C. and A.G. satisfying himself that money spent has the proper authority ( s.1(1) ) . |
| 17 | It is perhaps ironic that a financier whose fortunes had foundered on the unreliability of the royal credit should have busied himself three years after his bankruptcy with devising a project for a national bank whose impracticability his own fate had spectacularly demonstrated . |
| 18 | The most frequent visitor is the ice-cream van announcing itself several times a day with chords from " It 's Now or Never " or " Happy Days Are Here Again " . |
| 19 | Lydia was so annoyed at this that she could n't think where to begin but promised herself that Finn should suffer for his insolence . |
| 20 | How she would have loved to have permitted herself that gesture , then to have stalked out of the room and slammed the door . |
| 21 | And so , about a week after their last direct encounter , she found herself one evening waiting up for him , sitting with a glass of vodka and tonic in the drawing-room , long after Silvia had gone to bed . |
| 22 | The blonde lady , Mrs Johnson , whose daughter Hank regarded as little better than a.streetwalker , found herself appointed chairman of the subcommittee , and she asked if Mrs Stych and the president , the hawk-faced wife of a real estate man , would serve with her . |
| 23 | It was with a considerable sense of agitation that she found herself opposite room number four . |
| 24 | So and so 's , so and so 's lame , and so and so 's got a big leg so and so caught hiself this morning , had an overreach . |
| 25 | The Danes said Yes to Maastricht only because other governments solemnly reassured them at Edinburgh last December that they need not consider themselves European citizens , or adopt a European money , or join a European army . |
| 26 | The ‘ working class ’ collectivity is , in a sense , centred on manual industrial labour , at least for the adult male members of working class families , although ( a ) by no means all people who consider themselves working class are employed in that sphere and ( b ) a not insignificant minority of people employed in that sphere do not consider themselves working class . |
| 27 | They were less enthusiastic about two places which would consider themselves several cuts above the Meridien . |
| 28 | Well you could buy yourself some golf stuff for a hundred could n't you ? |
| 29 | I should have discharged myself this morning . ’ |
| 30 | They survived , and for entertainment would buy themselves hot potatoes from a stall for their pockets , and explore London , enjoying particularly the spectacle of the horse-drawn fire-engines thundering out of Cripplegate , often six at a time . |