Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | possible that Paul has had a already had a reply from the Destiny people , you know , the ap at my urging Paul joins these people to find himself another girl because I 'm so sick of hearing about Karen who 's treated him made a fool of him totally |
| 2 | Partner Ferdinand has had his back to the wall in the last few months , a troublesome disc plaguing his attempts to establish himself last spring and resulting in him coming home early from America . |
| 3 | Before we leave Glamorgan , a word of congratulation to Stephen James , who has been opening in place of Butcher and compiling runs with the kind of technique that reveals how earnestly he is trying to establish himself this summer . |
| 4 | " I had n't intended to stay away long , of course ; certainly not long enough for you to find yourself another wife . |
| 5 | Thank you , so we 've obviously got to behave ourselves this morning , and act in a proper manner . |
| 6 | Douglas nodded and went to pour himself another cup of tea . |
| 7 | or anybody could do in that situation is having asked a question , they 're a bit hesitant about er , the next question then simply throw in there to buy yourself some time something like ee , is that all ? |
| 8 | A psychoanalyst would perhaps say that we learn to deny ourselves this satisfaction in favour of more sublimated pleasures . |
| 9 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 10 | As we learn to give ourselves more time to pause before activity , we will slowly become more and more aware of the warning signals that our body gives us when it is under stress . |
| 11 | want it , cos we were you know , we were thinking i we wanted to leave ourselves that option . |
| 12 | But had he really been ill or had he been shamming , crafty sick to give himself extra time in Leeds ? |
| 13 | He knew that he was going to have to give himself one night 's sleep at least , one night when he would n't be bent into the back of a freezing car or upright on a chair . |
| 14 | His eye was watching the barley while he was thinking about the outing he had decided to give himself that evening . |
| 15 | To give himself more time he asked the Bookman if he would help him with his homework . |
| 16 | Pöhl said that his decision had been made to give himself more time for his family and private interests and was prompted by " neither resignation nor frustration " . |
| 17 | His brothers Simon and Peter Eubanks ( Chris dropped the s , perhaps to give himself some breathing space ) were both fighters , but Chris took a somewhat different approach . |
| 18 | They were well aware that before the English visit , and in an attempt to give himself some room for manoeuvre , Napoleon III had wooed the Tsar . |
| 19 | His suggestion that his intervention persuaded the Khmers Rouges not to disrupt the voting may be an attempt to give himself some importance . |
| 20 | He will see that a number of general practitioner practices have become fundholders , that a local NHS trust has already reduced waiting lists by 1,200 in the last year , and that a district authority is about to merge with a neighbour to give itself more clout . |
| 21 | ‘ How is Kathleen ? ’ she asked , to give herself some time and in an effort to restore the conversation to a level on which she could cope . |
| 22 | So she hurried downstairs to fix herself some breakfast — and almost stopped in her tracks at the sight of the figure who was seated at the kitchen table . |
| 23 | MPs are in the unique position of being able to vote themselves unlimited money from public funds : the dominant view among MPs has always been that this power must be exercised with restraint . |
| 24 | The low-calorie ( and that means low in fat as well ) recipes can be enjoyed by all the family , so you wo n't feel there 's any need to deny yourself good food while you 're slimming . |
| 25 | If you have problems socializing , looking better might give you more confidence but you still might have to give yourself that final push to get out there and start mingling . |
| 26 | It 's also a good idea to back off three to five per cent every second or third week to give yourself more rest and sufficient recovery . |
| 27 | The opposite applies if you feel yourself falling in backwards — pull in the back hand to give yourself more power . |
| 28 | If you have drawn an end position on the line , run down the beach a little wide to give yourself more room . |
| 29 | To stretch properly you need to be warm , and to give yourself sufficient time . |
| 30 | I think it 's a matter of giving yourself time of accepting that maybe you 're feeling low or I fe , when I 'm feeling low I say right , I ca n't cope with things I 've got to give myself some time where nothing 's gon na bother me , if I can manage it , an hour , half an hour , just doing something for myself that I really like and that helps me once I accept myself as being depressed then it helps alleviate the stress involved with it . |