Example sentences of "[verb] yourself [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delight yourself in the Lord |
| 2 | I laughed , and she said , ‘ Laughing is a way of protecting yourself from the truth . ’ |
| 3 | They both agreed that if you could n't enjoy yourself on the way , what was the point in running a business that afforded them so much freedom to travel ? |
| 4 | He says you can still go out and enjoy yourself in the sun but it 's important to wear a hat and protective clothing — and to avoid the sun altogether when it 's at its height . |
| 5 | Some years later he commented on this to Minton who gave an insight into their insouciance : draw in the morning , when fresh , he advised , so that you can enjoy yourself in the afternoon . |
| 6 | Matching yourself to the job |
| 7 | You can then apply a similar method to the second major piece of preparation before applying for a job : matching yourself to the job for which you might apply . |
| 8 | It may even be that despite taking care with matching yourself to the job before making an initial application you may find out further information that will make you less enthusiastic about the job . |
| 9 | Warm yourself by the fireside of pure genius and it wo n't cost you a penny . |
| 10 | One way will ensnare you and entangle your life to such an extent that you will find it difficult to extract yourself from the situation in which you suddenly find yourself . |
| 11 | Er and you , you , you provided yourself with the uniform before you came as a student nurse so that was alright for the first year , so you 'd no uniform to provide . |
| 12 | You will not respect yourself in the morning . |
| 13 | Well , well , well , Captain , I nearly did you a great injustice a minute or two ago , I thought you had not perhaps addressed yourself to the problem on hand . |
| 14 | Practise the above and familiarise yourself with the co-ordination required for turns in each direction before trying to fly proper circuits . |
| 15 | Familiarise yourself with the problem 2 . |
| 16 | Familiarise yourself with the law relating to archaeological sites . |
| 17 | For magistrates ' courts , familiarise yourself with The Sentence of the Court , the booklet published by the Government for magistrates ; for the Crown Court read particularly D.A . |
| 18 | Familiarise yourself with The Engineering Council 's Code of Conduct , authorised under its Bye–Laws and with any relevant codes provided by your own Institution or professional association . |
| 19 | Familiarise yourself with the Strategy on p.27 and learn to be purposeful , active and flexible in your reading habits . |
| 20 | And you know very well that as soon as you start to launch yourself into the world of contracting by , by its very nature a contract a a automatically has loopholes in it , and the more you write in a contract the more loopholes you 've got . |
| 21 | In contrast , if you are white , and unless you actually subscribe to racist arguments , you will want to find ways of dissociating yourself from the views expressed here . |
| 22 | Driving yourself to the Alps rather than taking the tour operator 's flight has a lot of attractions . |
| 23 | Foul up in a chimney and you 'll batter yourself on the walls . |
| 24 | We went further down the slope to practise parachute landing falls and ground handling skills — everything you need to know before actually launching yourself off the side of a hill . |
| 25 | Their house , Carceri , is a complex world of ancient stone galleries and courtyards , with weird ( and scheduled ) spiral staircases that you go up only to find yourself on the floor below the one you started on — an old dungeon perched among the treetops on a hillside overlooking the city , which they found by a miracle , and had converted . |
| 26 | If you are well practised in a careful approach , having learned the art of blending yourself into the background and moving with the silence and stealth of a hungry alley-cat , then you will soon be close enough to identify them as chub . |
| 27 | Beware of over-committing yourself to the foot sweep . |
| 28 | Spokesman Jun Shimoyamada said : ‘ You 'll be able to immerse yourself in the picture . ’ |
| 29 | I was thinking of ethnography , which means you have to immerse yourself in the situation and talk to the people involved like an anthropologist would . |
| 30 | If you kill the people you love — or run away from them — you only smash yourself in the end . |