Example sentences of "[vb base] [pn reflx] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bax himself attended the The Garden of Fand recording sessions . |
| 2 | Paige himself emphasises the element of ‘ purposive organizational behaviour , the object of which is to formulate and achieve social goals by means of consensus and coercion ’ . |
| 3 | Zamenhof himself anticipated the problem . |
| 4 | The Collector popped it into his mouth , let himself savour the sensation of it wriggling on his tongue for a moment , then crunched it with as much pleasure as if it had been a chocolate truffle . |
| 5 | Wölflinn himself describes the Bernini statues at some length but at no point does he ever mention the subject … |
| 6 | Now there was no choice but to raise her eyes and let herself see the house . |
| 7 | Once you use this approach regularly it is surprising how often you catch yourself doing the tasks which feel immediately rewarding rather than those which are essential . |
| 8 | Picture yourself posting the letter , and feeling that it was a simple matter after all ! |
| 9 | If you are not one that likes to participate in active sports , then school yourself to take the stairs instead of the lift , walk to the newspaper shop instead of driving … indeed , take a vigorous walk whenever you can . |
| 10 | record yourself saying the whole dialogue , then listen to yourself . |
| 11 | You know yeah may be may be and it is difficult situations do it but I think some of the problem comes in that it 's very difficult for us to stick with the point and hear ourselves say the same thing over and over again because it does n't feel right how many how many of you did n't feel right doing doing what you were doing ? |
| 12 | Simple lies we tell ourselves to hide the truth . ’ |
| 13 | Pople himself captured the mood of self-assurance and optimism that is the mark of these theoreticians at the end of the book he coauthored on the subject . |
| 14 | Punch itself laboured the irony : ‘ We understand that a survey has already been made and that many of the inhabitants along the line have expressed their readiness to place their coal cellars at the disposal of the company . |
| 15 | To be more exact , get itself evokes the efforts required to obtain a certain behaviour from someone or something and the to infinitive expresses the result obtained . |
| 16 | When she returned , they rearranged themselves more decorously on rocks and set themselves to recover the mood that had been lost . |
| 17 | Now , in turning to style as recurrence , pattern , frequency we find ourselves taking the reader 's point of view . |
| 18 | We 've all had such dreams — in which we find ourselves wearing the wrong clothes , in the wrong place , at the wrong time , missing the train , etc . |
| 19 | On arrival we find ourselves ringing the second bell . |
| 20 | We commit ourselves to maximise the potential of communication in the task of nation-building and the Church 's mission . |
| 21 | The teacher who is ‘ grading on the curve ’ may , on marking a given set of students , allow himself to vary the proportions slightly . |
| 22 | To my amused horror , I find myself urging the women to try baking buns ( more sugar , more profit ! ) and working out the amounts for a trial run . |
| 23 | Exactly 11 years later , I find myself doing the same job , this time in the Kremlin . |
| 24 | As the mother of a nine-year-old girl , I often find myself questioning the wisdom of other parents in the light of recent attacks on young children . |
| 25 | Right now I find myself regretting the fact that we have done very little to replace them . |
| 26 | But if they allow themselves to correct the party programme of action elaborated by the Comintern without asking its opinion , such action is incompatible with the principle of democratic centralism , with iron discipline , and with the Comintern . |
| 27 | That 's right , and , and the first act of the play is a rehearsal and it keeps stopping and the director keeps sort of straightening them out and they 're dealing with little problems , and when you 're actually rehearsing it you find yourself sort of repeating the play because it 's so ac Michael Frayn who wrote it has so accurately observed what happens er when you 're directing a play that er you find yourself re-enacting the play and , and suddenly find a discussion you 've just been having has part sounds as if it 's come out of the script . |
| 28 | You find yourself doing the strangest things that can only be because you are no longer capable of doing the simplest tasks . |
| 29 | In run-of-the-mill performances you often find yourself lamenting the absence of Lerner and Loewe 's songs from My Fair Lady , but in this detailed , absorbing production , Shaw 's verbal music is enough . |
| 30 | Although in general the evidence suggests that it is usually the man 's retirement that provokes most friction , this may change as more of today 's working wives turn sixty and find themselves facing the same need to make difficult adjustments . |