Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | And finally I 'm obviously hoping to do myself some good . |
| 32 | I must be mad wilfully to deny myself this ultimate creative act , this absolute satisfaction , the most passionate love affair of many women 's lives . |
| 33 | She stretched lazily and made herself more comfortable . |
| 34 | As his opponent re-checked his position , Hill whipped the ball out to Rob Andrew having brought himself that extra second of time . |
| 35 | The first thing Louis did when he reached Aachen was to clear himself some political space . |
| 36 | ‘ Could she have hurt herself that bad , just by falling ? ’ |
| 37 | You 're giving yourself some new , you know . |
| 38 | But every great competition fighter has asked himself those very questions . |
| 39 | Reviewing the latest research on the greenhouse effect , the science working group of the UN Intergovernmental Committee on Climate Change ( IPCC ) has declared itself more certain than ever that global warming is under way — but agreed that its full impact may be delayed by other human factors , including a limited cooling effect produced by sulphur pollution and ozone depletion . |
| 40 | But when a suitable issue presents itself these underlying feelings easily become manifested , often to the surprise and consternation of the new village-dwellers . |
| 41 | My mother and I brought her up and she brought herself this low . |
| 42 | As well as their daily pint of fresh milk taken in one form or another , if they can be encouraged to cook themselves some fresh green and root vegetables several times a week , so much the better , but these menus are designed primarily for old people who dislike spending much time on the preparation of their food and are unlikely to be persuaded past a certain point of effort . |
| 43 | Again the simplest way to gain a clear picture is to divide a sheet of paper into two columns and ask yourself some obvious questions . |
| 44 | So I grew myself some new flesh and got into wearing it . |
| 45 | We are going to have ourselves some nice hot coffee and you can lie there and watch . |
| 46 | He did not allow himself many enjoyable things in life . |
| 47 | But has anything else that has changed in those twenty-five years — or , for that matter , in the years since abolition — been such that it ought to influence the mind of a Member who is unable to convince himself that capital punishment deters ? |
| 48 | When the opportunity presented itself some Arab states , for example Egypt ( which formally repudiated its treaty in 1976 ) and Iraq ( 1952–3 ) , discarded or downgraded the Soviet Union in their foreign relations and cultivated the United States . |
| 49 | But first she had to get herself some English money . |
| 50 | When she was out of this , she 'd check out a sexclone with a moustache like Bronson Manolo and a body like Stallone , rent herself some clean water and a whirlpool bath , and have herself a party and a half . |
| 51 | Paige could feel herself dissolving , losing everything she knew of herself , and yet finding herself more real in the re-moulding . |
| 52 | Try to control your obsessional , time-directed life by making yourself more aware of it , and changing the established pattern of behaviour . |
| 53 | She would remonstrate with her , ‘ You 'll make yourself more ill brooding like this . ’ |
| 54 | " Why do n't you make yourself more comfortable ? " she asked , with a touch of joshing indignation . |
| 55 | I wrote up the notes , made myself some scrambled eggs , then decided to walk over to the post office to see if my brother had telephoned last night with any message . |
| 56 | He has shown that certain sections of the population look for immediate , simple satisfactions , while the intellectuals take pride in rejecting kitsch and deny themselves these simple pleasures . |
| 57 | The children are going to have them at home anyway , so if the teachers deny themselves this extra resource , and deny themselves the experience which the children can bring , I think they 're cutting themselves off from a tremendous source of encouragement and motivation . |
| 58 | Now Jacqueline , trotting about the shop telling herself some endless and only vaguely comprehensible story , knocked down a pile of brightly coloured buckets . |
| 59 | There had been an anonymous telephone call to tell him so , but he had guessed it anyway , mostly because her habit of reversing the responsibility for everything that happened had made her start to behave as though she had herself some gross cause for mistrust . |
| 60 | She 'll blame pressure on him at work , or his being led astray by boozy colleagues , or even kid herself some sleazy bimbo seduced him . |