Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We made ourselves some ro is , and when we 'd eaten them , I set out for home . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | — the C. and A.G. satisfying himself that money spent has the proper authority ( s.1(1) ) . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | How she would have loved to have permitted herself that gesture , then to have stalked out of the room and slammed the door . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They were less enthusiastic about two places which would consider themselves several cuts above the Meridien . |
| 12 | Well you could buy yourself some golf stuff for a hundred could n't you ? |
| 13 | I should have discharged myself this morning . ’ |
| 14 | I tried myself this morning , in case you were fit enough to go home , but still no answer . ’ |
| 15 | No one should be asking them ‘ True or false ? ’ : they fool themselves this way , so they can easily fool us . |
| 16 | If you begin to punish yourself mentally ( or even physically — for example , by denying yourself that reward ) , you simply add to your own anxieties , reduce your performance standards and damage your chances of survival and success . |
| 17 | Rugby and last year 's losing finalists in the Provincial Insurance cup have earned themselves another crack at it . |
| 18 | so we 'll er just erm behave yourselves this evening ! |
| 19 | " I had n't intended to stay away long , of course ; certainly not long enough for you to find yourself another wife . |
| 20 | Lewis asked himself this question as he went down in the lift and crossed the arrivals hall of Terminal Two to await the exodus from Customs . |
| 21 | He crept back into the kitchen and made himself another cup of tea . |
| 22 | And , while they were arguing , Conradin made himself another piece of toast . |
| 23 | He made himself some Ovaltine in the kitchen around ten-thirty p.m . |
| 24 | Back at the house Philip made himself some tea and ate some cereal . |
| 25 | Maxie made himself some coffee and took it out to the patio , where he surveyed the work to be done . |
| 26 | In the end he got up and made himself some coffee , then watched the early morning skies above Manhattan as he recalled the past . |
| 27 | And he was confused by his enjoyment of Rain 's company now when he ought , if he wanted to spare himself those memories , to have avoided it . |
| 28 | Yet at other points the problem is rather the hijacking of the original message , as in the phenomenal lines : ‘ If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today/ He 'd be gunned down cold by the CIA/ Oh the lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass/ Will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart/ But God did n't build himself that throne/ God does n't live in Israel or Rome/ God does n't belong to the ‘ yankee dollar ’ / God does n't plant the bombs for Hezbollah ’ . |
| 29 | Having started the design ball rolling and given himself some idea of cast requirements , Barry moved on to his foremost task that of constructing the camera script . |
| 30 | He smiled craftily at Blunt and got himself another drink . |