Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make life as easy as possible for yourself by picking a venue with good access for sets and materials . |
| 2 | They gave away very little about themselves in their choice of the first Christmas presents . |
| 3 | But the ever-smiling Adams , who has been dogged by a catalogue of injuries over the past two years , was in no mood to feel sorry for himself at Party Politics ' home-coming , attended by more than 500 people in Upper Lambourn yesterday . |
| 4 | It was each for himself in a hard , competitive world . |
| 5 | He paused , then added quite gently , ‘ But I 'm glad to know you discovered all that for yourself without my having to tell you . ’ |
| 6 | You can verify that for yourself by running your fingertips ova a slightly rough surface and then stopping . |
| 7 | We can hear that for ourselves in the records that have been issued of Karajan rehearsing the late Mozart symphonies or the Finale of Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony . |
| 8 | Come and see this for yourself on your next trip to Brazil . |
| 9 | Prove this for yourself by taking a trip round the Freestyle . |
| 10 | Er , but if we run out of time and I find we have n't we we we ca n't fit it all in I 'd like you all to attempt to do this for yourselves after er , the lecture is over . |
| 11 | God knows how they manage to keep this about themselves with the situation as it is . |
| 12 | What this function was I 'm even less clear about myself after reading Summerchild 's letter . |
| 13 | Already established as a meticulous organizer , a good platform speaker , and an activist with a flair for publicity , he was instrumental in October 1920 in bringing together representatives of unemployed groups in the capital into a London district council of unemployed with himself as organizer . |
| 14 | The artist Michael Wishart , confronting this in himself in his autobiography , High Diver , argues : ‘ physical beauty , unless accompanied by brute stupidity and a nature devoid of creative aspirations , is not compatible with sex appeal . ’ |
| 15 | But it is unlikely that they are able to use this in itself as a guide . |
| 16 | Two blocks away from the house of her childhood it suddenly occurred to her that her mother might have left , that there might be strangers in the hallway , a different set of curtains hanging at the windows ; her father 's study might have been turned into a playroom for a new generation of North Oxford children , so different from herself in her prim Clark 's T-bar sandals that she would not be able to recognise her own infancy in theirs . |
| 17 | He said he wanted to eliminate the ‘ schlechtes polnisches zeug ’ , the bad Polish stuff , and he claimed that the Poles had brought this upon themselves by refusing to accept the new Prussian authority with good grace . |
| 18 | The Committee begins by expressing surprise that the position of English within the educational system has " scarcely any history " However , such a revelation could only be surprising in the light of the Committee " s own characterization of " English " as a discipline of education , dependent in itself upon quite recent social developments ( see pp. 44–5 ) . |
| 19 | Plans and drawings or maps can be stored in neat rolls in large baskets or drums or laid flat in thin drawers set into a wall of storage ; these can look interesting in themselves with their severe and narrow horizontal lines . |
| 20 | He never admitted this to himself in so many words , which was probably why he had occasional attacks of breathlessness and a tendency to develop a rash behind his ears . |
| 21 | He encouraged Scots to appeal direct to himself against their own king 's judgements . |
| 22 | Folly felt almost embarrassed at herself for the ease with which she was finding these excuses — and for the fact that she seemed to have slipped into mental first-name terms with this man who was , after all , a stranger . |
| 23 | Like a lion with her cubs , they lick their own wounds and show little of themselves to outsiders . |
| 24 | Like a lion with her cubs , they lick their own wounds and show little of themselves to outsiders . |
| 25 | Perhaps we could all be a lot more tolerant of ourselves for sometimes longing to be beautiful if we considered for how many years of our lives this had been held out to us as an ideal . |
| 26 | This means that we can pass on the benefits to policy holders such as yourself by either reducing the policy charges or indeed er increasing the bonuses wherever possible . |
| 27 | ‘ Too much of yourself into it ! |
| 28 | Charlie says : ‘ I think it must be very difficult every day to give so much of yourself to so many people — and not feel in a way that , since you 've given a great deal , therefore you deserve love and warmth when you go home . ’ |
| 29 | She knew he was thinking : If I had not put so much of myself into this house , perhaps I 'd leave . |
| 30 | ‘ I have put too much of myself into this painting . ’ |