Example sentences of "[vb base] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just go and lose yerself for a week , son . |
| 2 | We judge ourselves by the time from call-out to getting the problem fixed which is an average of 63 minutes , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Even if we confine ourselves for the moment to the late sixth and fifth centuries B.C. , when the options were more limited , the road of the Rhone was not the only route for traffic between Celts and Greeks . |
| 4 | Even if we confine ourselves to the more usual outlets for creative expression — in the arts and sciences — there is similar ambiguity . |
| 5 | Even if we confine ourselves to the difference of aim between reformist and revolutionary parties ( or of social movements , which can be classified in a similar way ) , the distinction can not always be made in an absolutely clear-cut fashion . |
| 6 | Predation between invertebrates if we confine ourselves in the macro sense and exclude zooplankton feeding invertebrates is mainly due to mobile forms attacking and feeding upon sessile forms . |
| 7 | Is it that she , she 's , she 's , she 's wondering what will happen to her family or children if they go abroad , or is she thinking that each country in the Community , perhaps having some special erm excellence of its own , ought to be shedding this example among the others so that we all raise ourselves to a common , higher level ? |
| 8 | The separation also resolves the problem of remorse when we tax ourselves about an unphilosophical action we may have taken . |
| 9 | Too easily we stand still and pat ourselves on the back ; before long we are losing ground . |
| 10 | So are we saying Mr Chairman that , we er launch ourselves into an adventure like an assessment without actually having an idea of the cost ? |
| 11 | The issue is that you know we build ourselves round the church . |
| 12 | Women 's exemption from these time-geared precepts was the result both of their extensive periods of ritual impurity and of their designated role as closeted homemakers — though of course in making such a statement , we immediately involve ourselves in a greater degree of circularity . |
| 13 | Therefore , we content ourselves with a degree of objectivity which represents an acceptable narrowing of the areas of difference between financial reports . |
| 14 | If we did n't get the damage repaired , we could end up with a blind ship and fly ourselves into a black hole . |
| 15 | As Christian communicators in Asia we place ourselves at the service of those challenges , well aware that we need to conscientise people as much as we need to be conscientised . |
| 16 | He wanted to get out of the old activist scene and transform himself into a modern , successful businessman . |
| 17 | This created a tendency for the administrator to facilitate the flow of benefits which the state frequently confers upon private enterprise to private businessmen for a return , and , indeed , involve himself in a variety of legal and illegal activities for which the post of senior government servant is advantageous . |
| 18 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
| 19 | It agreed to draw on creative Marxism and other traditions and transform itself into an empowering organisation in order to contribute to opening up the new political formulations that will be needed across Europe in the post cold-war era . |
| 20 | You watch it peel itself into the sea . |
| 21 | Delight yourself in the Lord |
| 22 | I shift myself from the mirror to the window , to see what she does . |
| 23 | And provide yourself with a little amusement into the bargain ? ’ |
| 24 | They cushion themselves on the silence . |
| 25 | Most extraordinary thing : as wife shoves high-chair into car 's rear suspension and I quietly herniate myself on a couple of bags filled with Devon mud and light aggregate thieved from local quarry by children , strange sense of loss creeps over me . |
| 26 | It can and will work , but only if heads and governors involve themselves in a true partnership based on mutual trust , respect and understanding . |
| 27 | Whilst most of us , for example , can cope with having the occasional murderous thought about people we love , or work with , there are other people for whom such thoughts constitute a profound assault on their self-worth , and who must , therefore , either suffer that sense of worthlessness or involve themselves in an intense effort to deny or rationalize the thought . |
| 28 | The biological positivists did not , however , involve themselves in the detailed specification of penal treatments . |
| 29 | Writers on architecture such as J. C. Loudon in the 1830s and George Godwin in the 1840s , interest themselves in the houses of the poor ; while in the latter decade not only Dickens but many other novelists are concerned with a variety of living spaces for which the middle class home , rather than the aristocrat 's , sets the standard . |
| 30 | If you 're a good girl I 'll take you home myself in the morning . ’ |