Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I came down to London , I finally got myself a decent bass , a Fender Mustang , then started changing pickups to get a raunchier , more distorted sound . |
| 2 | That I still feel myself a foreigner is by no means the fault of the neighbours , the true natives . |
| 3 | I tried to I probably made myself a bit of a nuisance when I came in last time but , |
| 4 | I also built myself a second house there , and so I had two homes . |
| 5 | Do n't ask me why , I often ask myself the same question ! |
| 6 | A host of examples can be cited throughout the period of Stewart rule up to 1542 ; the fate of the mighty earls of Douglas at the hands of James II in the mid fifteenth century , the case , enshrined in ballad , of the over-confident border reiver Johnnie Armstrong , who suddenly found himself the victim of the utter ruthlessness of James V , tell the same story about how royal power was exercised in Scotland . |
| 7 | Saddam , a polished television performer , made considerable use of the medium for propaganda purposes , as when he conducted a conversation on camera with a British child caught up in the war who now found himself a ‘ guest ’ of the Iraqi regime . |
| 8 | Charman , who originally considered himself a bass player , was not sure whether he was in the right band . |
| 9 | During her short career she ambitiously taught herself the principal and solo roles as well as the corps de ballet parts of the various ballets by careful attention during rehearsal and performance , and by assiduously watching even the works in which she did not appear ( such as Le Spectre de la Rose ) . |
| 10 | Certainly she never considered herself a match for the actress Susan George , who was his escort that evening . |
| 11 | Then she mentally gave herself a shake — steeling herself against the creeping rush of longing . |
| 12 | Or had been , she mentally corrected herself The tapes represented proof of his involvement in the theft of the letters and , by inference , in Beatrix 's murder . |
| 13 | If you do not have one already get yourself a diary which is small enough to carry with you . |
| 14 | The draw cost Norwich crucial points in the championship race and assistant manager John Deehan said : ‘ It would have been nice to close that gap at the top because we now find ourselves a bit adrift . |
| 15 | We even excuse ourselves a smile at the Catholic priest who tells of how he , being an incompetent tennis player , accidentally mishit a shot that flew into an adjacent court where a black man happened to be playing . |
| 16 | But in those general objectives , we then set ourselves the top ten , top ten objectives and how we are going to actually action those objectives er to er move forward and if they were achieved , we thought if we achieved those ten objectives and that 's going to take time and as I say it 's a dynamic plan , it 's going to take two , three years to achieve and if we achieve those objectives then we will have achieved our own rule er our overall mission . |
| 17 | Such gentlemen freeholders could be manipulated , but they rarely considered themselves the hired retainers of a politician , whose support the latter could take for granted . |
| 18 | The issue was that the receivers had sufficient liquid assets to pay themselves and then terminate the receivership if they only paid themselves the amount of remuneration which B and L thought was due to them . |
| 19 | By failing to provide stories for a significant proportion of the population , are they not digging themselves a grave ? |
| 20 | As his hand came to her arm she lashed out at him and he caught her close to save himself the trouble of subduing her in any other way . |
| 21 | In 1987 , they voluntarily set themselves a worldwide target of reducing air pollution by 90% at the end of 1992 . |
| 22 | I believe that Stalin was paranoid about other people in the Soviet Union rising up and overthrowing him , so by bumping off Kirov and blaming on them , he effectively gave himself a licence to go out and kill all other them as revenge . |
| 23 | From being just another kid with nits in his head , the smallest in his class and the only one in the whole school whose skin was a swarthy brown , he suddenly found himself the most popular boy around . |
| 24 | He soon proved himself a redoubtable warrior , and won the respect of his peers . |
| 25 | In concert , Pollini 's almost super-human control is just as evident , yet he normally allows himself a degree of flexbility which one rarely encounters in the studio . |
| 26 | ‘ Did not he ever show himself a loyal supporter of the late king your husband ? ’ |
| 27 | He still granted himself the licences of old age — even if he was n't entitled . |
| 28 | Yet at the age of forty he still regarded himself a failure because his mother had projected on to him her anxieties to such an extent that he never felt he matched up to her expectation of him . |
| 29 | By leaving when he does , he still gives himself the chance of a second female but he minimises the risk of being cuckolded . |
| 30 | Mr Berecz said he still considered himself a member of the old party and refused to recognise the new one — despite voting for its establishment — but did not rule out the possibility of seeking admission to it . |