Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pn reflx] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Isabel had told her , unable to deny herself the relief of letting the truth out at last . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Perhaps the disco-dancers of 1986 saw themselves the same way . |
| 8 | KAY BLAIR was recently shocked to find herself the recipient of high quality service |
| 9 | There were those at that time who cultivated melancholy to give themselves the appearance of profundity . |
| 10 | On the other hand they are too exposed to allow themselves the Costa Rican solution of doing without armies altogether . |
| 11 | The Hexagonale regional grouping ( comprising Austria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Italy , Poland and Yugoslavia — see p. 38508 ) decided in Vienna on Jan. 28 to rename itself the Central European Initiative with immediate effect ; Yugoslavia did not participate in the meeting but Slovenia and Croatia were represented . |
| 12 | Sheffield United 's Dave Bassett is the latest to find himself the subject of a police inquiry after being reported by the gentle , clean-mouthed souls who inhabit Chelsea 's stands for swearing . |
| 13 | Foxes often avoid the colony sites of breeding seabirds because if they attempt a swift invasion to capture nestlings they are liable to find themselves the object of severe and painful dive-bombing by the parent gulls and their companions . |
| 14 | She knew the Spanish liking for these little snacks and she stepped down into the street , a little surprised to find herself the focus of several pairs of eyes . |