Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] [det] [noun] " 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 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 .
3 " I had n't intended to stay away long , of course ; certainly not long enough for you to find yourself another wife .
4 And he was confused by his enjoyment of Rain 's company now when he ought , if he wanted to spare himself those memories , to have avoided it .
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 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 .
10 want it , cos we were you know , we were thinking i we wanted to leave ourselves that option .
11 His eye was watching the barley while he was thinking about the outing he had decided to give himself that evening .
12 To give himself more time he asked the Bookman if he would help him with his homework .
13 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 " .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 His suggestion that his intervention persuaded the Khmers Rouges not to disrupt the voting may be an attempt to give himself some importance .
17 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 .
18 ‘ 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 The opposite applies if you feel yourself falling in backwards — pull in the back hand to give yourself more power .
23 If you have drawn an end position on the line , run down the beach a little wide to give yourself more room .
24 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 .
25 I would need another 40 yards off the tee to give myself any sort of chance .
26 In view of the dicey and rapidly deteriorating state of our physical surroundings , largely attributable to our ham-fisted handling of the powers bestowed on us by scientific and technological ‘ progress ’ , it might have been thought that there was a place in society for young persons who had taken the time and the trouble needed to give themselves some understanding of the problems we have set ourselves , so that they could help to reduce the damage done , and the worse damage yet to come .
27 SPACE SUCCESS : St Simon 's School at Hazel Grove launched their ‘ Space Venture ’ to raise money to give themselves more space in the school — a new mobile classroom .
28 The assembled heads of government , under CARICOM 's new chair , Patrick Manning , the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago , agreed to reconvene on Oct. 28-30 to give themselves more time to study the wide-ranging recommendations of the West Indian Commission , created in November 1989 , which on June 18 had released a major 600-page report on the region 's future .
29 After any major change it is important to give oneself some moratorium — suspend some activities — to allow feelings concerned with the loss of the old to be lived through .
30 I 'm very sorry to have to tell you this — but Mrs Kemp tried to kill herself this afternoon . ’
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