Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The survivalist culture of the ghetto insists that , instead of leading ever fuller lives , we should strip ourselves down for action and retaliation : it 's a culture fascinated by war games , fitness , one-upmanship . |
| 2 | Defeat left Everton with a far from comfortable eight point cushion above the relegation zone and Kendall said : ‘ We defended well most of the time but let ourselves down in injury time . |
| 3 | Now , our visual arts policy could be summed up as follows : It 's our main concern to bring about a social financial climate more conducive to the health of the visual arts than that which we find ourselves in at present . |
| 4 | At last he said , ‘ We have got ourselves thoroughly at cross purposes have we not ? ’ |
| 5 | Erm in no way were we ever going to consider ourselves part of management . |
| 6 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 7 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 8 | ‘ We are gearing ourselves up for promotion on and off the field . |
| 9 | We have come all this way to take part in a major game , not put ourselves up for auction . ’ |
| 10 | Does my right hon. Friend agree with the comment made on Sunday that we should not commit ourselves now in advance of 1997 to a single currency as a point of agreement that all sensible people could hold ? |
| 11 | Yet , as we turned off the Buxton Road into Ashford-in-the-Water , we found ourselves back on schedule and completely relaxed . |
| 12 | Yet , as we turned off the Buxton Road and into Ashford-in-the-Water , we found ourselves back on schedule and completely relaxed . |
| 13 | Now we have to beat Portugal and Italy at Ibrox before the end of the year to get ourselves back on course to qualify for the World Cup finals . |
| 14 | We spent the rest of the week at the cinema , stuffing ourselves hotly with popcorn so oily it stained our clothes . |
| 15 | But er , I never heard of them if they did and er , I mean I , I used to involve meself not in politics or anything like that is the last thing I ever thought of involving meself in but er , I did er , sort er , well being on the milk round you used to see the people in , because they come to door to bring a jug you see and you , you talk to people and you know they were , er were sensible and they were , were should I say soft or had no er conversation at all like , you know . |
| 16 | And so Willi was squeezing himself into his best suit , the one he wore for daytime ceremonial occasions , and had spattered himself lavishly with aftershave cologne , and spent a long time arranging the frill of curls round his bald crown . |
| 17 | That should change this year , for in the first innings of Lincolnshire 's match against Norfolk , Love put himself on to bowl his offbreaks and took 6 for 18 . |
| 18 | 223 ( including the passage , at p. 229 , ‘ a person entrusted with a discretion must , so to speak , direct himself properly in law ’ ) and the manner in which thereafter he applied those principles to the facts of the case before the House . |
| 19 | occasionally one feels , as a teacher , rather like a soccer referee who , having blown his whistle for the kick-off , finds the players disconcertingly reluctant to make a move and is reduced to dribbling the ball himself furiously from end to end , scoring brilliant goals in undefended nets , while the motionless players look curiously on . |
| 20 | To his surprise he finds himself basically in agreement on a wide range of questions which he has never really thought about before . |
| 21 | He broke his neck by throwing himself down on top of the reactor . ’ |
| 22 | Barber had an exceptional flair for expressing himself fluently in crystal clear prose . |
| 23 | A practising engineer until the age of forty , Albert Ayme did not throw away his slide-rule and set-square when he decided to devote himself entirely to painting . |
| 24 | Nu was no longer concerned with politics ; he devoted himself entirely to Buddhism . |
| 25 | Well , the thing I mainly notice when last week when Paul was home , not last week , the week before last I had Paul solidly at home , he moved himself entirely in lock , stock and barrel at the weekend , he was then with me waiting for his job and he went out every day and did little bit 's of shopping for me , got him from under my feet , saved me money , cos I was only buying what I absolutely needed , and the amount of time that I had , I mean I was able to go out for the whole day with Peggy on Wednesday , I was able to get food prepared and , admittedly I did n't manage to get as much done as I thought I was going to do , but then I think that 's with most people in life , |
| 26 | She probably needs a good … ’ starts Mark , but he stops himself just in time . |
| 27 | " Where — " He checked himself just in time . |
| 28 | He checked himself just in time , went down flat on his stomach , peering through the tough grass that grew on these dunes . |
| 29 | He ca n't drink for six whole months , that 's why he has to get himself away from town and temptation and live out in the country . |
| 30 | To wean himself away from concrete , physical sensation , the Jewish adept should learn to contemplate language in a way that would divorce it from meaning and physical reality . |