Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no money , Hilbert having used all he possessed to purchase himself an annuity , but Wyvis Hall and its contents were Adam 's absolutely . |
| 2 | Tell Brian to buy himself an alarm clock cos I want it back ! |
| 3 | So Ashenden spent eight quid of his money in order to buy himself an alibi . ’ |
| 4 | He liked to imagine himself an academic , working after dinner in one of those elegant book-lined rooms of an Oxford college . |
| 5 | It would be far too glib to suggest that he consciously made the second change , to adopt Christianity , merely to give himself an excuse to abandon sexual relations with Mrs Moore , whatever the nature of those relations had been . |
| 6 | Why are you so all-fire determined to do yourself an injury when I 'm around ? ’ |
| 7 | On these grounds he had as good a claim as either the king of Wessex or of León to call himself an emperor ; and his great prestige may well have had something to do with it . |
| 8 | Nietzsche already made the point , and as a philosopher who was willing to call himself an egoist his witness is especially interesting : |
| 9 | Why had she ever come to town to get herself an education ? |
| 10 | You never get a chance to have yourself an evening to relax . |
| 11 | Then he decided to make himself an omelette . |
| 12 | Milner-White was then a charming young man of rather Anglo-Catholic opinions who was beginning to make himself an expert both on stained glass and on ways of English worship and prayer . |
| 13 | Throughout most of her reign , and particularly in its early years , she made strenuous efforts to show herself an adherent of advanced theories of government and of the ideas of the French Enlightenment in general . |
| 14 | I had six days — time to make myself an evening gown ( evening gowns are n't funny ) that drops to pieces ( how ? ) after I 've fallen down a flight of stairs . |
| 15 | Better by far to invest while the going is good , to guarantee yourself an income , rather than rely on an uncertain future . |