Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pn reflx] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think we 'd make ourselves a laughing-stock . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Come , ’ they say to one another , ‘ Let us build ourselves a city , and a tower with its top in the heavens , and let us make a name for ourselves , lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth ’ ( 11.4 ) . |
| 3 | Now they now said come on let us build ourselves a city and also a tower with its |
| 4 | Spenser could consider himself a gentleman only on the basis of having been to university and acquired a Master of Arts degree . |
| 5 | In verse and prose he was hell-bent on facing himself when things were out of joint ; the scalpel-probe is counterbalanced by the unlearned , incurious manner in which he found deepest ease and joy out of doors — a way of healing he had discovered early in life , although he did not consider himself a naturalist . |
| 6 | No longer need he consider himself a charlatan , an impostor . |
| 7 | As soon as the shops opened after the holidays he was going to go out and buy himself a tie ! |
| 8 | DEC perhaps captured the expectation best : ‘ Do you think he could buy himself a plane ticket and go on a personal tour of all of us — IBM , Hewlett-Packard , Sun Microsystems Inc , DEC — and bring us together in kind of an Open Software Foundation II with all of the chief executives on the same dais saying the past is behind us ? ’ |
| 9 | Such as it was , it constituted a public place , and he could no longer guarantee himself the seclusion and privacy of the deserted churchyard . |
| 10 | Or it might consider itself a success if it can stop providers passing on increases in input prices in full without trying to reduce them by greater efficiency . |
| 11 | Other women in the narrative may not be friends , but are always constructed as rivals for male attention : ‘ She does not consider herself a beauty and this element is used to play off against the beauty of the other woman ( women ) … . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Do you realize , I can buy myself a gun now , and keep rabbits out of my own lettuces ? ’ |
| 13 | Why do n't you go and buy yourself a sweater , on me ? ’ |
| 14 | Our new Plan is called DOUBLE PAYOUT for a very good reason : not only can you guarantee yourself a cash payout in time for your 65th birthday ( if you 're over 55 , you get your payment after ten years ) , you can assure your family a further cash sum when your death finally does occur . |
| 15 | ‘ What you need to do , Leith , is to try and deglamorise yourself a bit . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't consider myself an idiot and anyone who says I am does n't know what they 're talking about . |
| 17 | It gave us both lots of pleasure trying to work out the various clues , so we shall give ourselves a pat on the back for doing so well — hope you will have some more mind-boggling competitions in the future . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought if we could get their nature thing together with your Alps thing , we might both do ourselves a bit of good . |
| 19 | ‘ Why do n't we do ourselves a favour ? ’ she said through her teeth . |
| 20 | Wonder we did n't do ourselves an injury , he was that much of an industrial hazard . ’ |
| 21 | He would give himself a treat today . |
| 22 | There could be a comeback for Town player manager Glenn Hoddle … he 's with the second division select side in Italy this week and may even give himself a game across there … |
| 23 | ‘ You can see that he did n't give himself the time to finish it . |
| 24 | She worried that Chris might fall and break his leg , that Annie might swallow a stone and have to go to hospital , that Alan might give himself an ulcer through working too hard . |
| 25 | MIKHAIL GORBACHEV must feel himself a man cursed . |
| 26 | My objection to his high heels was that he would do himself a mischief if he had to bale out ! |
| 27 | Better tie his hands , or he might do himself an injury . ’ |
| 28 | A bus would repeat itself every hour and he 'd say , run that one down , or that was running it down hour after hour until about seven o'clock when certain buses were run in . |
| 29 | But even it would do itself a favour if it took the Tippex to its business stationery and removed that redundant word ‘ Centre ’ . |
| 30 | Then , at about eleven , she would pour herself a drink and turn out the lights and sit and think . |