Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may prefer to believe themselves to be special and different in their primary addictions rather than part of a wider group of sufferers from addictive disease . |
| 2 | Some transracial adopters may prefer to isolate themselves from the cultural background and ethnic origin of their child because it is easier in the short run to escape conflicts . |
| 3 | If you are confronted with an aggressively rude interviewer who makes the interview very stressful you may want to ask yourself whether you could possibly be happy working in such an atmosphere anyway . |
| 4 | She may seek to blame herself . |
| 5 | You may need to ask yourself questions like ‘ When am I likely to have some space to myself ? ’ , |
| 6 | If she lives on her own and poor health has robbed her of a normal social life , it is to be expected that her loneliness may have created such a build-up of unexpressed thoughts , feelings and opinions that she may need to talk herself to a standstill before she is ready to converse with you , and interest herself in anything you have to say . |
| 7 | July brings confusion to your romance and you may need to remind yourself why you 're in love ! |
| 8 | But if his NES is to survive the lobbying in Congress , both he and the White House beast may need educating themselves . |
| 9 | Second , it may need to make itself distinct from other species with which it shares its living space . |
| 10 | But both are only extremes of something that is considered perfectly normal : that girls and young women should want to change themselves . |
| 11 | People living here must prefer keeping themselves to themselves . ’ |
| 12 | All right , I 'll put a sling on that arm , and if the pain gets worse you must promise to take yourself to the hospital . ’ |
| 13 | And business schools will surely need to work out what successful , professional specialists must know to prepare themselves for high-level positions as business executives and business leaders . |
| 14 | It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels . |
| 15 | The speaker in the afternoon was Sue Beardon , of Voluntary Action-Leeds , and she helped delegates understand what they must do to prepare themselves for the new ways of working . |
| 16 | But they are the least the world must do to make itself safer from nuclear blackmail . |
| 17 | Do n't you think that maybe it was just a teeny-weeny bit curious or stupid or disgusting that Morrissey should choose to wrap himself in the flag ? |
| 18 | In the front hall — in case any burglar should choose to throw himself through the fireproof glass in the window or slice through the mortise lock with a flame gun — was a selection of things to trip over . |
| 19 | Bengali families in the East End feel they have no protection and that they must begin to protect themselves . |
| 20 | In addition , the learning steps a student must follow to prepare himself for each test are specified . |
| 21 | All through this review , I must keep reminding myself that virtually everything I see before me is in fact a variable . |
| 22 | The extent of family break-up means that divorced women must work to support themselves and their children ( 90 per cent of lone parents are women ) . |
| 23 | They should stop portraying themselves as doughty defenders of a Britain that is besieged by marauding continentals . |
| 24 | Artists and the artistic community must stop deluding themselves and from now onwards begin scrutinising the very structure of their thought , instead of contenting themselves with pointless posturing systematically contradicted by the way in which art is produced and distributed . |
| 25 | I have always felt that on these policy study groups we must avoid restricting ourselves to those who are already fully committed politically to the Conservative Party . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , you really must try to familiarize yourself with our traditions . |
| 27 | We must try to help ourselves to come to terms with the changes in farming , but if the present position persists , farmers in rural areas will not be seen to be working in line with the avowed aim of my right hon. Friend the Minister of a good environmental policy mixed with good farming . |
| 28 | ‘ But they must try to get themselves sorted out to the extent they have at least a working relationship . |
| 29 | Unless you have above-average building skills , lining a flue with precast liners is not a job you should attempt to do yourself . |
| 30 | Rule-following as a practice must therefore be able to carry on without anything to support it , and we must attempt to wean ourselves away from the feeling of vertigo which is engendered by our recognition of the lack of support . |