Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How she would have loved to have permitted herself that gesture , then to have stalked out of the room and slammed the door . |
| 2 | I should have discharged myself this morning . ’ |
| 3 | Rugby and last year 's losing finalists in the Provincial Insurance cup have earned themselves another crack at it . |
| 4 | Having started the design ball rolling and given himself some idea of cast requirements , Barry moved on to his foremost task that of constructing the camera script . |
| 5 | But he has done himself some damage and will need to work hard , and with some care , if he is to secure re-election to the shadow Cabinet in November . |
| 6 | It 's arguable that the industry has done itself more damage by its inflated claims than anything else , because they spared people like Rifkin into action . |
| 7 | ‘ I could have saved myself that fee . ’ |
| 8 | Shane 's bought himself another car . |
| 9 | ‘ I feel ashamed to tell you this , Father , but Michael has bought himself another club , this time a bordello . ’ |
| 10 | and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job . |
| 11 | and erm of course computers did n't help in the slightest because er , I think the er , I may be wrong about this but as I understood it erm the computer programmer worked for West Suffolk but at the time of reorganization he 'd got himself another job . |
| 12 | After 2 weeks , she reported back there had n't been any improvement but it turned out that she had bought herself some Arg Nit tablets as she did n't like the taste of the alcoholic water the LM was made up in ! |
| 13 | I had told myself that heat was cleansing , because I had grown fearful of water . |
| 14 | When I 'd convinced myself that girl whose hand |
| 15 | Surprisingly , in the last decades is that literary studies , perhaps especially classical studies , which may seem to be at the other extreme of the academic spectrum from the sciences , have shown themselves more self confident in the use of computers than history has done , even though history is closer to the social sciences which have for long been acclimatized to quantification and computerization . |
| 16 | IF Gidon Saks has been in the last year the bovver boy of Scottish Opera , singing splendidly but speaking out of turn , he has surely redeemed himself this week directing the RSAMD Opera Class in two productions at the New Athenaeum . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was just embarrassment — the memory of how he had shamed himself that time when she had comforted him . |
| 18 | He had told himself that his name was Michael Holly , he had set himself that challenge . |
| 19 | She had given up work to have the children and she 'd seen them through to school age , when she 'd gone out and found herself another job . |
| 20 | ‘ She says not to worry , she 's found herself some work . ’ |
| 21 | He had never asked himself that question before . |
| 22 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 23 | Shivering the night away in the reeking darkness of the tunnels , he had asked himself this question more than once . |
| 24 | The answer was the same as on every previous occasion she had asked herself that question . |
| 25 | I 've asked myself that question time and again . |
| 26 | I 've asked myself that time and time again . |
| 27 | I have asked myself this question a thousand times , a hundred thousand times . |
| 28 | As he lay beside her later , exalted and still alive , he thought of how he had previously denied himself this ecstasy . |
| 29 | He did n't seem upset that it was empty and Trent had the feeling that , given the chance , the President would have poured himself another whisky and drunk it for something to do rather than from desire for alcohol . |
| 30 | Richie had poured himself another whisky and soda . |