Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I notice , little madam , you were pleased enough to find yourself a good Catholic … . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Just enough to buy myself a wagon , lumpkin . |
| 3 | It would be far too glib to suggest that he consciously made the second change , to adopt Christianity , merely to give himself an excuse to abandon sexual relations with Mrs Moore , whatever the nature of those relations had been . |
| 4 | All the right ingredients seem to be there : so it 's easy enough to persuade yourself the sharp steering , smooth increase in turbo power in the mid-range , quick-shifting gear change and body-hugging seats imply something of a breakthrough by Detroit . |
| 5 | Had n't she had enough of men for the moment , without being stupid enough to allow herself the folly of being attracted to a man who could n't basically give a damn whether she existed or not ? |
| 6 | Now that they were the owners of Rafferty 's , they adjusted the rules sufficiently to allow themselves a drink after hours . |
| 7 | Ten minutes later he had calmed down sufficiently to make himself a cup of coffee and write himself a note to check Angela Morgan 's financial status . |
| 8 | Just to give yourself a bit of time |
| 9 | Er put a line in from somewhere , there from the centre up to there , just to give yourself a start somewhere . |
| 10 | I do n't go around making things up just to get myself a story ! ’ |
| 11 | She got up later than he did because she went to sleep later , tossing and sometimes weeping , and in the end usually fumbling her way downstairs to get herself a drink . |
| 12 | The doorbell rang a few minutes after she had opened the lid of her case and returned downstairs to make herself a cup of tea . |
| 13 | CHESHIRE won their first National Cricket Association County Championship match when they beat Lancashire by 42 runs at Milnrow yesterday to give themselves a chance of winning the North West group . |
| 14 | As his hand came to her arm she lashed out at him and he caught her close to save himself the trouble of subduing her in any other way . |
| 15 | It flattered his vanity to think himself in love with me ; it also gave him , I believe , some unadmitted pleasure constantly to long for my flesh and yet always to forbid himself the attaining of it : to deny himself was just as exciting as to indulge himself . |
| 16 | IN an historic decision to break with Moscow , the Lithuanian Communist Party voted yesterday to declare itself an independent party by more than 5 to 1 , well above the two-thirds majority needed . |
| 17 | She was proud now to consider herself a woman . |
| 18 | The hero must be challenged and tormented , he must be bamboozled and tried up to breaking point before he is permitted to claim the prize , before , in fact , he is able properly to call himself a hero . |
| 19 | His sojourn in the car was simply to assure himself the messenger boy responded to the given description and had not been followed . |
| 20 | But most important , please decide today to give yourself the financial protection of the Midland Personal Accident Plan . |
| 21 | ‘ The telephone never stops and I can hardly spare the time even to make myself a cup of tea . |
| 22 | It used to be thought that , when Offa was styled on occasion in the charters of the period rex Anglorum , this signified that he aspired to lordship over all the Anglo-Saxons or at least to make himself the only king south of the Humber . |
| 23 | A newcomer to the political scene , whether lord or man , could not hope to operate outside this existing network , but had instead to find himself a place within it . |
| 24 | A newcomer to the political scene , whether lord or man , could not hope to operate outside this existing network , but had instead to find himself a place within it . |
| 25 | IBM Corp has had to call in the headhunters again to find itself a new chief financial officer : it has tapped Russell Reynolds Associates , and the executive search firm says that it was actually hired by IBM prior to appointment of Louis Gerstner as chairman and chief executive . |
| 26 | Sharpe , despite the Prince 's frequent insistence , had yet to buy himself a Dutch uniform . |
| 27 | Every so often it will flap again to give itself a little more power and lift . |
| 28 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 29 | In May 1991 , after 30 years of bitter civil war , Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia , but has to wait for the referendum officially to declare itself an independent state . |
| 30 | The nineties have yet to prove themselves a kinder and gentler decade , but that should not stop us from looking forward again . |