Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — the C. and A.G. satisfying himself that money spent has the proper authority ( s.1(1) ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | How she would have loved to have permitted herself that gesture , then to have stalked out of the room and slammed the door . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | You 've got ta give yourself that time to react and that room to manoeuvre . |
| 7 | ‘ I could have saved myself that fee . ’ |
| 8 | We ca n't go on paying ourselves that sort of money , we ca n't go on , and Mr I know in a minute we 'll talk about the number of people who attend committee meetings erm and sit in on them , and that 's increased considerably , erm , so I think it 's important that we do get down to this problem , we grasp the nettle , and I , I believe that will mean that we start to look seriously at reducing the number of times members come and talk here , and perhaps we let the officers get on with the action that they should be getting on with |
| 9 | I do n't think I scare easily , but I sure as hell scared myself that weekend . |
| 10 | I had told myself that heat was cleansing , because I had grown fearful of water . |
| 11 | When I 'd convinced myself that girl whose hand |
| 12 | Would you like to u , can you see yourself that service ? |
| 13 | want it , cos we were you know , we were thinking i we wanted to leave ourselves that option . |
| 14 | His eye was watching the barley while he was thinking about the outing he had decided to give himself that evening . |
| 15 | She was meant to be persuading herself that life was worth living . |
| 16 | Loved him enough to steel herself to lie and excuse herself that afternoon , while she made her way to the Amtel clinic . |
| 17 | I tell myself that silence is more likely to be a personal choice than an imposed one . ’ |
| 18 | If you have problems socializing , looking better might give you more confidence but you still might have to give yourself that final push to get out there and start mingling . |
| 19 | Around 180 per 100,000 Greenland males killed themselves that year . |
| 20 | She had a tin of photographs which she would browse through , reminding herself that life had not always been so humdrum . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was just embarrassment — the memory of how he had shamed himself that time when she had comforted him . |
| 22 | He had told himself that his name was Michael Holly , he had set himself that challenge . |
| 23 | Others of us have to cultivate this talent , and the way to do it is by constantly asking yourself that question , " What will the Reader want next " ? |
| 24 | Can I hear you asking yourself that question ! |
| 25 | You have to say something like ‘ God was always there ’ , and if you allow yourself that kind of lazy way out , you might as well just say ‘ DNA was always there ’ , or ‘ Life was always there ’ , and be done with it . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been asking myself that question , ’ Jenna confessed , but all she got was another suspicious look . |
| 27 | He had never asked himself that question before . |
| 28 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 29 | And what kind of whore offered herself that way ? |
| 30 | The answer was the same as on every previous occasion she had asked herself that question . |