Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long time , no see , ’ he murmured after getting himself a coffee . |
| 2 | St Albans Crown Court heard how 50 year old David Lashley raped and killed the 24 year old after earning himself the reputation of a habitual rapist . |
| 3 | On Dec. 28 , Nagorny Karabakh ( an autonomous region within Azerbaijan ) held elections to a parliament , after proclaiming itself a republic . |
| 4 | I fear , however , that in my anxiety to win the support of Mrs Clements and the girls , I did not perhaps assess quite as stringently my own limitations ; and although my experience and customary caution in such matters prevented my giving myself more than I could actually carry out , I was perhaps negligent over this question of allowing myself a margin . |
| 5 | Nor had Innocent any intention of allowing himself the humiliation of Lateran I where the council defeated the pope . |
| 6 | She gulped , barely capable of denying herself the inevitable . |
| 7 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
| 8 | Caroline , poised on the first-floor terrace of her mother 's old town house in Kalkara Creek , in the act of pouring herself a Campari and orange in the midday sunshine , looked up and started to smile politely . |
| 9 | On the outbreak of World War I Herbert joined the Irish Guards , despite his near-blindness , by the simple method of buying himself a second lieutenant 's uniform and falling in as the regiment boarded ship for France in August 1914 . |
| 10 | Damon Hill produced the performance he had dreamed of to give himself a great chance of finishing on the victory podium at the Brazilian Grand Prix . |
| 11 | ‘ I am not afraid of calling myself a trader despite the fact it is now rather fashionable to describe the field you work in as a profession , ’ he says . |
| 12 | The answer is to develop the habit of asking yourself the question ‘ What went well ? ’ |
| 13 | So he obtained the job , unfortunately at the cost of giving himself a hernia for which he needed hospital treatment . |
| 14 | You will stand a far greater chance of giving yourself a hassle-free journey if you leave your trusty vehicle at home . |
| 15 | Like getting a wage packet again , instead of voting myself a salary as my own director or whatever it is they make me do . ’ |
| 16 | The window was slammed down and Broomhead waited , taking the opportunity of rolling himself a cigarette . |
| 17 | Instead of making yourself a killing machine , now you make yourself a sex machine ( look at titles like ‘ Body To Body , ’ ‘ Drive ’ ) . |
| 18 | Then she went on with the lovely task of making herself the most important lady in Tollemarche . |
| 19 | As she says : ‘ There seems to be so little appreciation of the potentially devastating emotional effect of finding yourself a victim ’ |
| 20 | Other people , more strong-minded than me , use the reverse tactics of promising themselves a reward when they have done something difficult . |
| 21 | HOWARD GAYLE , the former Liverpool and Blackburn Rovers winger , will be training with Wrexham next week in the hope of earning himself a contract . |
| 22 | As the months went by , I became quite excited by the prospect of weighing myself every Monday . |
| 23 | They 're specially chosen for summer drinking , when you feel like giving yourselves a connoisseur 's treat . |
| 24 | Following it for a while is like giving myself a good spring clean . ’ |
| 25 | It was like giving myself a little treat , like say buying a bottle of wine . |
| 26 | At a congress on Jan. 20 the NDPD voted against renaming itself the Republicans . |
| 27 | The most senior candidate , Adam Matthews , 16 , of the Socialist Labour Party , said his party would abolish the Queen , generals and public schools , put the Royal Family out to work as wardens in nature parks , and prosecute Arsenal under the Trade Descriptions Act for calling themselves a football team . |
| 28 | Though perhaps it could do with kicking itself a little more . |
| 29 | In this tale , two weeds grew on a river bank ; one of them conserved its energy , and grew low and small and brown , with its sights set on a long life , while the other put forth all its strength into growing tall and into colouring itself a beautiful green . |
| 30 | Yet even though Daniel had spread himself as far as he could , including making himself a primitive chapel out of an east-facing bedroom , there was still a good deal of vicarage left over . |