Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pn reflx] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's important we keep our run going and why should n't we think ourselves genuine title contenders . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You 've got a hope , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I 'll bore meself silly readin' this stuff , and I 'll get an 'eadache as well . |
| 3 | No injuries ; they 're unchanged , which means Nicky Summerbee has won that number 8 shirt and can consider himself first choice . |
| 4 | It was their fence , and it was coming down , and she had pointed that out to Frederick , and she had known he would n't do anything about it , any more than he would buy himself new underpants . |
| 5 | The Danes said Yes to Maastricht only because other governments solemnly reassured them at Edinburgh last December that they need not consider themselves European citizens , or adopt a European money , or join a European army . |
| 6 | The ‘ working class ’ collectivity is , in a sense , centred on manual industrial labour , at least for the adult male members of working class families , although ( a ) by no means all people who consider themselves working class are employed in that sphere and ( b ) a not insignificant minority of people employed in that sphere do not consider themselves working class . |
| 7 | They were less enthusiastic about two places which would consider themselves several cuts above the Meridien . |
| 8 | Well you could buy yourself some golf stuff for a hundred could n't you ? |
| 9 | They survived , and for entertainment would buy themselves hot potatoes from a stall for their pockets , and explore London , enjoying particularly the spectacle of the horse-drawn fire-engines thundering out of Cripplegate , often six at a time . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , though , the savers can count themselves very fortu nate , particularly those in the off shore fund who now stand to get nearly all of their money back . |
| 11 | so we 'll er just erm behave yourselves this evening ! |
| 12 | On such a cargo he could easily make himself twenty pounds a week , plus . |
| 13 | Yet at other points the problem is rather the hijacking of the original message , as in the phenomenal lines : ‘ If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today/ He 'd be gunned down cold by the CIA/ Oh the lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass/ Will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart/ But God did n't build himself that throne/ God does n't live in Israel or Rome/ God does n't belong to the ‘ yankee dollar ’ / God does n't plant the bombs for Hezbollah ’ . |
| 14 | A year later Mrs Meehan wrote , ‘ As I say again , Paddy or Jim had never heard of Mr Ross until after this crime , and I know if not this week or this year , he will clear himself one day . |
| 15 | The despair of Jack 's friends has always been that he will not give himself any trouble . |
| 16 | If only he could give himself more time . |
| 17 | ‘ It is , but even the most hard-pressed executive owes it to himself to relax occasionally and give himself some space . ’ |
| 18 | Hope could picture himself comforting Mrs Crump , shoring up the memory of her husband , praising him , assessing him , recalling ‘ mots ’ , reporting favourable comments , and then in would come the daughter , dressed entirely in black , and he would say , would be forced to say no matter what the consequences were , that the child was like the man . |
| 19 | ‘ If you start to break it up and you disrupt it , you will break the momentum , you will give yourself major safety validation problems . |
| 20 | You 've got ta give yourself that time to react and that room to manoeuvre . |
| 21 | Or you can just give yourself some bullet points because you do n't need to write out the and 's and the the 's and whatever . |
| 22 | Alcohol in moderation is fine — but if you over-indulge , then you can do yourself serious harm . |
| 23 | Alcohol in moderation is fine — but if you over-indulge , then you can do yourself serious harm . |
| 24 | its going to come round at you in a minute , so I 'll talk about it until it gets to you , erm , it delighted my children this particular painting , erm and I decided to put my sort of analytical approach to one side erm and do something with that later , so this poem is from my , my children 's point of view and one of the things that are very interested , they were really worried , that , erm , I think it marks the height of the table and the fact that the puppies might fall off and do themselves some harm , that , I 'll read it while its going round and then I can see then , that , so this is , ok , from my children 's point of view this poem , its called Threes , Table laid and waiting , milk place in bowl not to high , they lap and swirl , played and roll , paws distance from knocking and breaking goblet , made from clay . |
| 25 | ‘ And people who tan easily will probably do themselves less harm . ’ |
| 26 | The British people may give themselves five years in which to work it out . |
| 27 | Would you like to u , can you see yourself that service ? |
| 28 | Did you see yourself last night ? |
| 29 | And before he could stop himself some part of his brain that had nothing to do took control of his mouth and added , ‘ Heroes , in fact . ’ |
| 30 | Loved him enough to steel herself to lie and excuse herself that afternoon , while she made her way to the Amtel clinic . |