Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I think trick or treat itself , maybe has got a bit perhaps distorted from what one might imagine the American idea originally was . |
| 2 | ‘ Brownies do n't do good turns for rewards , ’ Heather told him , ‘ but , ’ she added eagerly , ‘ if you would let us use your loft as a meeting-place we 'd promise not to do any damage or make ourselves nuisances , would n't we , Shirley ? ’ |
| 3 | Honesty or making yourself cheap . |
| 4 | Such agreement would not be fully enforceable : the court will not compel a partner to remain in the firm against his will , but an unwilling partner would have to choose between honouring his contract or laying himself open to an action for damages for breach of contract . |
| 5 | A trainee who feels that their training course is inadequate has often no option but to continue on the training course or find themselves in a position of having their benefits cut . |
| 6 | The second assumption is that the stream can not move backwards on itself , that is , reverse its direction or join itself . |
| 7 | Such is the critical situation at the present day , but the outcome is still unclear : a new triumph of art ( albeit under the name of religion or Wissenschaft itself ? a new barbarism ? new kinds of genius — even perhaps the " artistic Socrates " ? |
| 8 | It is not wise simply to ignore your fear or to force yourself to confront some object or event which terrifies you . |
| 9 | Try not to be rushed into a decision and particularly do not offer a job immediately at the time of the interview or commit yourself before you have seen all the candidates , even if you are very sure that you have seen the right person for the job . |
| 10 | If the judge or district judge is satisfied that any proceedings can be more conveniently or fairly dealt with in some other court , he may order the action or matter itself to be transferred to that court ( Ord 16 , r 1 ) . |
| 11 | It is a way of thinking and expressing oneself in language that is radically different from conversational speech . |
| 12 | It had absorbed the autonomist Right-On thinking and described itself not as a political party as such , but as ‘ The Revolutionary Socialist Organization ’ . |
| 13 | I heard no more of the debate and to the astonishment of my fellow delegates I stormed out of the auditorium and locked myself away in the Ladies to howl out my rage , alone . |
| 14 | Mystics are certain that for brief periods they have been enabled to experience such perception and know themselves to be part of a meaningful whole — one with the way things ultimately are . |
| 15 | It might also be true that an arrangement in which supplementary grants were made in the light of positive evaluation would be an effective incentive for schools to maintain momentum and involve themselves fully in inservice activities . |
| 16 | He then walked into a bedroom and shot himself in the chest . |
| 17 | As he crept in through the scullery window she would leap from her bedroom and conceal herself in the nettles , unconscious of the pain . |
| 18 | I ran to the bedroom and heaved myself under the bed , fighting blindly with the magazines . |
| 19 | She took one out and carried it up to her bedroom and shut herself in . |
| 20 | Anyway , at last I got absolutely blind drunk through depression , went upstairs to Freda 's bedroom and cried myself to sleep . |
| 21 | Only towards Pen had she let her guard slip and that was because he himself claimed her as his own , rushing into his mother 's bedroom and hurling himself into Wilson 's arms . |
| 22 | They find that the less stable isomers of the larger clusters , for example , heated by collisions with the inert gas , collapse and rearrange themselves into more stable fullerene shells . |
| 23 | What 've I done ? ’ asked Archie , sidling sideways up the stairs in the hope of reaching the lavatory and locking himself in . |
| 24 | He usually sneaked off to the lavatory and relieved himself by peeing and thinking of funerals . |
| 25 | Add up that loss and ask yourself whether a few more pounds spent on books to prosecute the purpose that brought you to college will , in later years , make any difference to your funds . |
| 26 | In South Africa , you might think just about everyone owns a Rottweiler — especially if you read the small ads in the papers , where owners lament their loss and sign themselves ‘ Devastated Rotty Lover ’ . |
| 27 | Perhaps Vic had simply liked the look of the decorations in an antique shop or an auction and helped himself , arguing that , like eggs and water , they were universal property ? |
| 28 | Then one night in an alleyway he witnesses a murder and finds himself lumbered with the dead man 's child . |
| 29 | Jim Bob , thousands of miles from home , still nurturing that Fagin-style goatee , sits backstage at Boston 's Paradise Club and allows himself a crooked smirk . |
| 30 | And then , as they mumbled and made half-hearted climbing-down gestures that he knew would probably stop as soon as he was out of sight , he opened up the door to the club and let himself in . |