Example sentences of "[vb base] [coord] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.

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1 It is through change that we grow and discover ourselves , that we begin to actualise some of the myriad possibilities of our lives .
2 Cardboard cartons , discarded beer and milk crates , bread baskets , planks , bricks and other builder 's waste , old tyres and steering wheels can all be made safe for children to experiment with as they build and imagine themselves as pilots , racing drivers , farmers and naval captains .
3 Hall uses the Marxist philosopher Althusser and the social psychology of Laclau to argue that politics is not just about individuals and social groups pursuing their immediate material interests ; it is also about how they imagine and identify themselves in relation to the wider social world .
4 On March 26 , 1952 , they signed the agreement now sued upon which has three clauses : ‘ ( 1 ) the husband will pay to the wife for her support and maintenance a weekly sum of One Pound Ten Shillings to be paid every four weeks during the joint lives of the parties so long as the wife shall lead a chaste life the first payment hereunder to be made on the Fifteenth day of April 1952. ( 2 ) The wife will out of the said weekly sum or otherwise support and maintain herself and will indemnify the husband against all debts to be incurred by her and will not in any way at any time hereafter pledge the husband 's credit .
5 relax and release himself
6 The Amarilis is Club 18–30 at its best — a place to meet friends , relax and enjoy yourself with people your own age .
7 Artifact and artifice herself , Pandora installs the women as eidolon in the frame of human culture , equipped by her ‘ unnatural nature ’ to delight and deceive ’ .
8 We rededicate and commit ourselves to the highest standards in communication as we endeavour to work for a more just , viable and sustainable society now , and in the future .
9 Everyone still standing , and that was at least half the passengers , did a little backwards dance and righted themselves by the simple expedient of taking hold of the person or object closest to them .
10 A fair or decent wage was defined as enough to allow workers to pay the bills , eat and clothe themselves and their dependants and to participate fully in society .
11 You can enjoy what you eat and protect yourself form illness at the same time .
12 How often d' you get the chance to watch the mindlessly rich eat and drink themselves into a stupor on behalf of Ethiopia ? ’
13 Great movements in all subjects — arts , sciences , medicine — begin and establish themselves because the climate is ready to receive them .
14 I thought if I could get one or two put up , it 'd be a miniature Stonehenge ; call it Southmoorhenge and get ourselves on the map .
15 In the room which focuses on sight , visitors see , hear and feel themselves being poured out of a can of draught Guinness , into a glass , down a mouth and through the human body .
16 While the SS-20 rocket is still in space , diving back towards Earth , these three warheads separate and steer themselves to attack different targets .
17 Please continue to view your progress in the mirror and realise that it is only one more day before you measure and weigh yourself to enter your reduced ( I hope ! ) statistics on the Weight and Inch Loss Record Chart .
18 For those who wish to escape the hustle and bustle and lose themselves in the peaceful Nottinghamshire countryside , the working farms of the Nottinghamshire Farm Tourism Group offer a taste of the rural tradition .
19 Thoroughly biddable , and mostly Christian ( to a degree which would put to shame most people who profess and call themselves such ) , they make admirable soldiers — intelligent , willing , energetic , brave …
20 It is very important that you weigh and measure yourself at the beginning of the day on which you commence the Inch Loss Plan .
21 What is much more certain is that it was a huge release for him , a safety valve by which the loner could open up , expand and express himself .
22 No I 'm not : first I 'm going to wander round Bristol and try and get myself a job , then I 'm going to persuade the manager to give me an advance of a few pounds so I can get myself something to eat and find somewhere to stay .
23 I try and stop myself , but I just start crying .
24 Now , I know it is sometimes bad to be very narrow in your outlook but I think it was a good idea to focus on , we consider as a pretty high priority and make as much progress as we can , without forgetting other things and try and teach ourselves to do something within a fairly short space of time .
25 Try and put yourself in the employer 's place , or perhaps in the place of one of the people you may be dealing with as the employer 's representative .
26 This is the some the th one of the things I was going to suggest about I was going to leave it till next meeting , is that we we try and organize ourselves so that we are not su Last year I found myself sitting there frantically writing names on raffle tickets , knowing I was going out to play in about ten minutes , but there was nobody there to take over .
27 I lie down on the bench and try and make myself comfy .
28 And diagnosis is very , very important that , if you have a medical , clinical state of depression try and pull yourself out of it , by your , your own efforts and doing alternative things is not necessarily going to be effective .
29 And while you 're doing that , Laura , ’ he added with low menace , ‘ I suggest that you try and pull yourself together .
30 ‘ Some try and hang themselves on lamp-posts outside men 's houses , but I do n't know any of that sort .
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