Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ca n't make ourselves any different . |
| 2 | At the end of the last war he found himself some French creature and went to live with her , and so far as we know , he 's still in France . ’ |
| 3 | " Here , build yourself some good foundations and a stout wall or two . |
| 4 | Ellen had gone to her one-room apartment in town while Thessy was reading his Bible in the main-cabin , so I heated myself some baked beans in Wavebreaker 's microwave , spread them on buttered toast , soaked them in brown sauce , then ate a morose supper on deck until the bugs drove me to the screened sanctuary of the staterooms below . |
| 5 | He fears , as this moving tableau blots out his view , that she does not want to look at him but , then , just as he is allowing himself this painful thought , she turns and kisses him on the eyes before taking his cock in her mouth . |
| 6 | Fernandez , winner of 19 of his 25 bouts , landed some useful shots at the start before Hardy took control and in the third Hardy made the mistake of giving Fernandez too much of a target , but thereafter made himself more scarce , hitting and moving effectively . |
| 7 | Lord Justice Watkins , sitting with Mr Justice Garland , also rejected criticism made by Mr Justice Henry at an earlier hearing that Mr Saunders had set up a trust fund to render himself less likely to face litigation and reduce his ability to pay legal costs . |
| 8 | Perhaps the changes to Illustrator are best summed up by stating that the program has simultaneously made itself more accessible to the average user and significantly more useful to the professional . |
| 9 | Samantha Sherratt from The Howard League for Penal Reform believes that the system must change and make itself more accessible . |
| 10 | In the following four sections we shall examine five different habits used by animals to avoid being eaten : potential prey may actively flee their predators , or they may stay still and try to be invisible , or they may stuff themselves with sickening chemicals and advertise their unpalatability with bright ‘ warning colours ’ , or they may mimic the warning colours of others , and finally , in some circumstances , an animal may make itself less likely to be eaten by living in a group . |
| 11 | No one showed himself more resourceful in circumnavigating clerical consciences and objections or more resolute in extracting from them his needs ; even force — used tactfully — was employed to ease conscience as well as to produce cash . |
| 12 | Within a year , Alec , with his share of Father 's money , had bought himself this small island of Uskair , off Barra in the Outer Hebrides . |
| 13 | He poured himself some amber liquid from a thick cut-glass decanter . |
| 14 | He tapped his empty glass , then shrugged his shoulders as if too indifferent to meet some sort of challenge and almost defiantly poured himself another large measure . |
| 15 | He crossed to his drinks cabinet and poured himself another large measure of whisky , glancing at the phone every few seconds as if willing it to ring . |
| 16 | He knocked back his drink , turned to the bottle-loaded table behind and poured himself another large whisky . |
| 17 | A scrawny cloth cap and neck nods to the Pope who has got himself several small stalls supported with bent cardboard boxes scattered variously along the roadsides . |
| 18 | At a meeting in Canton , China , on Jan. 16-17 , the science working group of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) declared itself more certain than ever that global warming was under way , but agreed that its full impact might be delayed by other human factors , including a limited cooling effect produced by sulphur pollution and ozone depletion . |
| 19 | The common instinct for survival has shown itself more powerful than the urge to take risks on behalf of national interest . |
| 20 | Indeed , although the SLA is composed overwhelmingly of qualified teachers , it seems to some to have shown itself less aware of the pressures of educational change than the Library Association , with its royal charter to oversee the interests of libraries of all kinds . |
| 21 | I was asking a women why she did not keep herself more tidy and make herself attractive to her husband . |
| 22 | And out of you she sees herself more proper |
| 23 | When you 're back on your feet , you 'll be able to buy yourself some new duds . ’ |
| 24 | Breaking up the surface is well worth avoiding , firstly to save it and give yourself another heavenly run tomorrow , and secondly because when your edges start to catch it 's not much fun to ski and can be dangerous . |
| 25 | The boy cut himself another thick slice and started eating it fast . |
| 26 | The TPLF has recently transformed itself into the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Movement to give itself more national credibility , but its core remains the Marxist-Leninist League of Tigray , whose political model seems closest to the late Enver Hoxha 's Albania . |
| 27 | I think she 's all set to do herself some permanent harm if she pushes it any harder . ’ |
| 28 | well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice |
| 29 | Get yourself some suitable shoes — sportswear , ideally — with soles that will grip the deck in all weathers . ’ |
| 30 | Get yourselves some real men , you know , maybe you could buy some of John Wayne 's frozen sperm and impregnate some of your frigid women with it . |