Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] yourself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not worth driving yourself to the major airports in the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | Breakfast and lunch is usually a question of helping yourself in the kitchen . |
| 3 | It is often possible , then , to understand and so overcome spelling errors , once you understand why you are making an error and can work out a way of reminding yourself of the correct form . |
| 4 | Beware of over-committing yourself to the foot sweep . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I laughed , and she said , ‘ Laughing is a way of protecting yourself from the truth . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | With real concentration and with conscious techniques , carefully followed , you can free many more hours for the activity of educating yourself in the wide ambit of a college life — social , intellectual , argumentative and sportive — and so grow in personality . |
| 9 | ‘ You have an unhappy knack , Michael Riven , of finding yourself in the thick of things . |
| 10 | There 's the percentage game of wage slavery , mortgage and pension plans , and then there 's the less predictable option of throwing yourself to the fates and seeing what happens . |
| 11 | A good way of familiarising yourself with the principle of intervallic interchange is to set yourself the following task , both on and away from your guitar . |
| 12 | It would be like finding yourself in the kitchen with Barbara Coleman when you would rather be with Oliver and James Cobalt searching for drugs . |
| 13 | ‘ Like — like forgetting yourself to the extent of putting your arms around me . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In presenting yourself to the examiner , the skill with which you save time over small routine items can be very much in your favour , and this skill comes only with practice . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , knowledge and skill can be acquired more quickly through a well-planned training programme , and you would be well advised to consolidate your early practical experience through further training before committing yourself to the full responsibility of your own farm and livestock . |
| 17 | What are things coming to if it is no longer possible to spend time sailing and taking part in other water sports without subjecting yourself to the risk of such symptoms as rashes and vomiting ? |
| 18 | on finding yourself at the wrong lane at a junction should you A stay in it and miss your road , B and wait until you can change or C signal and move over quickly ? |
| 19 | It also gives time to improve fencing and drainage , extend water supply and renovate buildings without overtaxing yourself in the early stages . |
| 20 | You could make it all seem better than it was by reminding yourself of the spirit of Sharon Lines and the apparent contentment of Old Ape and the cigarette cocked jollily in the corner of Mrs Slewy 's mouth and the way in which Miss Lavant had learnt to live with her passion . |
| 21 | Begin by addressing yourself to the problem . |
| 22 | Sure you 're a great guy in their eyes … you 've done 'em all a favour by writing yourself off the promotion list . |
| 23 | ‘ You will have demonstrated that you are his servant , for by removing yourself from the court at such a crucial hour you will have proved to him that he was right to trust you . ’ |
| 24 | This article explains how you can rapidly increase your finds rate by putting yourself on the saddle of an imaginary bicycle and travelling back in time to the turn-of-the-century . |
| 25 | Oh sorry so that 's that 's what it 's what it 's about so what we want to do then over these next two days is to develop the skills of design and delivery and will allow us to do that allow us to improve our performance despite the fact that we do have the nerves and by practice by doing it by putting yourself in the situation where you have to make a presentation and almost as one chap said one time sitting there actually with your sitting there remembering he said actually volunteer to make presentations to the other people there . |