Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK was prepared to set itself the " very demanding target " of stabilizing total UK emissions of CO2 at 1990 levels by 2005 as part of " a wide international effort , with a fair distribution of the burden " , and " provided others are ready to take their full share " . |
| 2 | Nietzsche already made the point , and as a philosopher who was willing to call himself an egoist his witness is especially interesting : |
| 3 | Later the reigning champion , Paul Carter , beat the second-seeded former champion , Phil Kenyon , 10-8 , 9-7 , 9-1 to earn himself a semi-final today with another former champion , Bryan Beeson , whose magnificent recovery overcome the England international Chris Walker 8-10 , 8-10 , 9-5 , 9-0 , 9-7 . |
| 4 | 2 Set yourself a standard for everything you do today and from tomorrow onwards . |
| 5 | We each filled ourselves a small glass of vodka , and he said , ‘ George Dionisovich , I will try to help you for your kind heart and for your kind deeds ’ . |
| 6 | The next morning I woke up , and was relieved to find myself a normal man again … |
| 7 | It is little compensation to know that no fewer than six earned themselves the VC ; myth has it that they were all won before breakfast . |
| 8 | In an historic decision to break with Moscow , the Lithuanian Communist Party has voted by more than 5-1 to declare itself an independent party . |
| 9 | Golf : Feherty to spin himself a cocoon |
| 10 | But it is possible to give yourself a massage at home , after your bath , using a rich lubricating cream or body oil . |
| 11 | If you feel deprived and miserable by not being allowed an early evening drink , or a glass of wine with your evening meal , it is usually better to allow yourself a little alcohol while dieting . |
| 12 | Firstly , there was the bare fact that two London East Enders , both of whom had left school at fifteen and were quite untutored in writing , had felt so passionately about their situation that , in different prisons and unknown to each other , they had each set themselves the daunting task of writing the equivalent of full-length books . |
| 13 | I 'm highly unlikely to find myself a husband and produce another child within the next eighteen months . ’ |
| 14 | " Pure reason ! " barked the Magistrate , unable to contain himself a moment longer . |
| 15 | Most regarded the special circumstances in which the enterprises concerned found themselves a legitimate reason for consenting . |
| 16 | ‘ Maybe the party will be able to get some money out of it and we will be able to prostitute ourselves a little bit more . |
| 17 | That helps me a lot and I find I 'm able to assert myself a bit more . |
| 18 | If she keeps that up I will be able to buy myself a couple of books from the alcove book shop by the end of the summer . |
| 19 | They attach themselves to executable files and are able to load themselves every time the infected file is loaded . |
| 20 | Though patients were exempt from all charges under the 1946 Act , the Labour government amended that Act in 1949 to give itself the power to levy charges if it wished on prescriptions and appliances . |
| 21 | No gender differences were in fact detected , but the assessment system was rendered less liable to such biases staff were sensitized to their existence and nature and the course was able to give itself a clean bill of health without any special data collection effort being required . |
| 22 | But he was already a fallen idol in Patricia 's eyes , all because he had not been able to deny himself a sentimental gesture before leaving . |
| 23 | It is also important to give yourself a realistic — even generous — and flexible budget of time , so that further self-punishment does not accrue if you fail to complete everything in a day . |
| 24 | Isabel had told her , unable to deny herself the relief of letting the truth out at last . |
| 25 | With hindsight one can point to the underground man complaining that if he could manage even to loaf and idle around wholeheartedly he would be able to call himself a lazy man . |
| 26 | The out-of-the-practical-swim ex-student , ex-teacher , the worker at thinking in bed , would be able to call himself an arrested man ! |
| 27 | While America goes crazy over its new President elect , CARTER USM are busy making themselves the next most popular thing with the inhabitants of that wacky continent and really should have done the decent thing and put themselves up for election . |
| 28 | At the Manor Ground , Oxford United won themselves a draw after a diabolical first half . |
| 29 | " You will be able to earn yourself a proper living . " |
| 30 | She was able to make herself a pottery workshop by joining two old telephone engineers ' caravans together , and now works from her father 's market garden near Livingston . |