Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pn reflx] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although I asked myself the question , I knew the answer . |
| 2 | ‘ I asked myself the same question , ’ said Dr. Ray . |
| 3 | I made myself the timetable you know . |
| 4 | I found myself the only ‘ other ’ . |
| 5 | Then I allowed myself the luxury to think ‘ Hey , yeah , at 30 you 're not such a failure after all . ’ |
| 6 | So I gave myself the day off . ’ |
| 7 | Suddenly she knew the answer , even as she asked herself the question , and realised what she had to do . |
| 8 | Sometimes she told herself the postcards , or exercise book scrawls , were messages to Daniel , but one should never , she considered , ignore surface meanings in favour of implications and the damned things were addressed to her , to Frederica . |
| 9 | She allowed herself the luxury of screaming , and yelped as each stroke ignited a searing throb in her outraged fundament . |
| 10 | She allowed herself the luxury of remembering the way he had looked at her just now , thought about how she had felt . |
| 11 | She felt his arms tighten around her in a comforting hug and just for a few seconds she allowed herself the luxury of sinking against him , feeling the strength and the warmth of his body next to her skin . |
| 12 | But it 's so chancy that way uh and I do n't think either if you gave y'self the role or y'know , the title , say , of school counsellor or whatever that you … it would work . |
| 13 | She gave herself the pleasure of recalling Henry Yaxlee and his calm sea-like presence . |
| 14 | She gave herself the morning off and left the hacienda . |
| 15 | You said yourself the kidnappers might — ’ |
| 16 | Another contributor said that if we asked ourselves the question : ‘ Do the agencies discriminate against West Belfast ? ’ , the answer had to be ‘ yes ’ . |
| 17 | Suddenly we found ourselves the proud owners of three switchboards , two lines , thirteen phones and a miraculous fax ( ‘ Oooh , you must have to roll them up ever so small ’ ) machine . |
| 18 | We all regarded medicine as a religion , and we called ourselves the Society of Reason . |
| 19 | They called themselves the Wood-Winters . |
| 20 | He had left Russia soon after the Revolution and brought with him a choir of émigré singers ; they called themselves the Don-Kosaken-Chor . |
| 21 | They called themselves the Clamshell Alliance after the local clam fishers , who had been particularly upset by the plan . |
| 22 | The first dance band at the Show Room was made up of people in the dale and they called themselves the Arcadians . |
| 23 | They called themselves the Rejects , and they were very picky about social status . |
| 24 | At first they called themselves the ‘ Automobile Mutual Association ’ . |
| 25 | They called themselves the Red Lions , after the name of the pub where they first met in Birmingham in 1839 . |
| 26 | They felt themselves the most slighted of the folk of Ulthuan . |
| 27 | This is what made them anxious about the attitudes of powerful men in their societies — rulers , great magnates — towards the churches of which they considered themselves the lords . |
| 28 | It is precisely there that they considered themselves the most competent and consequently interfered in all spheres of its life . |
| 29 | He made himself the centre for information during the Red Raids that followed , brutal nights when civil liberties were swept aside . |
| 30 | The people who created it made themselves the masters of the Greek-speaking world within two centuries . |