Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [to-vb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It flaps its wings a few times to lift itself off the ground , then simply rises up , using whatever thermals and air currents it comes across . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to give me a few minutes to get myself ready . |
| 3 | You see towards the bottom er we pose a few questions there , I 'm going to ask you in a few minutes to introduce yourselves and to say what what sort of presentations you make at the moment . |
| 4 | Always used to a high energy level , she had found that the need over the last few months to pace herself , rest , keep calm , was driving her slowly insane . |
| 5 | Labour leaders had done well over the past few years to present themselves in Washington as solid members of the alliance and as social democrats more than socialists . |
| 6 | 1.10 SOME QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF AS YOU CONSTRUCT AN ESSAY |
| 7 | We 've been together a long time and people in the band like Paul and Mark and Gaz have a few things to prove themselves . |
| 8 | The report says that the company 's failure is " due quite simply to the overvaluation of the project , which has allowed some vultures to enrich themselves immeasurably at Congo 's expense . " |
| 9 | He waited for a few moments to compose himself , then left the court with his arm round his wife , Shirley , to face a large crowd of waiting reporters and cameras . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , I suppose it was on the floor somewhere , in a pub where I was tryin' to sell some violets to save meself from real starvation . |
| 11 | This is because , long before white men arrived on the scene , the local Indians living deep in the Amazonian rain forests caught and killed these animals to provide themselves with the poison tips for their arrows . |
| 12 | Pearson used these years to provide himself with an artistic education , listening to music , reading widely , and growing increasingly responsive to the beauties of the English countryside . |
| 13 | The power of these systems to manage themselves and simplify the interface with users comes from the large amount of computer power which they use . |
| 14 | This was made on a piece of 3mm hardboard measuring 300mm by 230mm ( 12″ by 9″ ) although you can adjust these measurements to suit yourself ; nothing else is affected by this . |
| 15 | The start of every cricket season causes cricketers of all standards and all ages to ask themselves the basic question , ‘ have I still got the old skills ? |
| 16 | Inevitably I shot many animals to feed myself and my retainers , but the memorable occasions were when I hunted dangerous game or tried to secure a really fine head of a rare or elusive animal , like this mountain nyala . |
| 17 | The inability or unwillingness of many local Boards of Guardians and/or education committees to reach any agreement over the operation of the Conservative scheme , and the unwillingness of many parents to allow themselves to be pauperized by it , had made it largely ineffective . |
| 18 | ‘ It is odd that they said so many things to identify themselves within a few short sentences . ’ |
| 19 | The decision to increase the Commission 's membership to 53 and to allot all the new seats to Third-World countries was seen as a further attempt by those countries to protect themselves , while a simultaneous Western proposal for measures to increase the Commission 's efficiency was defeated . |
| 20 | Nor do I feel like setting myself up as an Aunt Sally just waiting for all those girls to throw themselves at me in the attempt to knock me off my perch ! ’ |
| 21 | Part of the crime prevention initiative which many police forces are following is to assist the public to take more precautions to help themselves . |
| 22 | But he has told former executives to extract themselves from jobs they managed to find in the Aquino era and hold themselves ready . |
| 23 | His early history was not revealed , but when he arrived at his new home he was hostile , aggressive , and even savage ; and people were forced to take to their own heels to save themselves from his ! |
| 24 | You 'll obviously want to make it , you do n't want to make it too short you 're going to have enough words to get yourself a good mark . |
| 25 | She had felt much the same herself of late , restless , needing to work off that restlessness , only she had n't had the same opportunities to indulge herself . |
| 26 | It seems to be more difficult for human beings to apprehend the gravity of harms which take several years to manifest themselves . |
| 27 | Poland reappeared on the maps of Europe not so much through its own efforts to liberate itself — though over the years these had been prodigious but unsuccessful — but through the collapse of the partitioning powers that had held Poland in check . |
| 28 | You have several options to give yourself flexibility , including a choice of methods of repayment , and a fixed or floating interest rate . |
| 29 | She feels angry that the public were given so little information and were exposed to such large amounts of radiation , unable to take any precautions to protect themselves . |
| 30 | Companies in the survey were asked if they used any mechanisms to protect themselves against poaching by other businesses employing headhunters . |