Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So let me confine myself simply to inviting erm , Penny , to propose the resolution . |
| 2 | What I found was the Women 's Movement and I dedicated myself completely to it at all levels from forming advice groups , demonstrating to reclaim the streets etc . |
| 3 | I associate myself also with the remarks made by the Opposition Chief Whip about the dignity with which the hon. and learned Gentleman has borne himself in adversity . |
| 4 | When he finally got on his feet , Roger seemed unduly keen , and I found myself unexpectedly on the defensive . |
| 5 | I found myself aground in the middle of the loch , firmly wedged on one such stump , and the only way out of the problem was to leap overboard and shove . |
| 6 | I found myself entirely in agreement with this principle . |
| 7 | I buried myself deeper in the warmth of my own blanket and slept again . |
| 8 | I defended myself stoutly by pointing out that the alternative was to break off negotiations , with a dispute that could have gone on for months at great cost to the health of the nation . |
| 9 | I hid myself away in the long grass at the edge of the wood near Sykes Farm . |
| 10 | Damian considered her too inexperienced sexually to be able to fulfil that longing of his to express himself fully through the body . |
| 11 | Tourists clicked away with cameras as I hauled myself inelegantly over the top . |
| 12 | ‘ I consider myself totally without authority in the matter of continuing the talks , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Moving round the table , I jabbed myself painfully on its corner , and burst into tears . |
| 14 | Perhaps she just did it out of the goodness of her heart — or perhaps ( and this thought provoked a fresh spurt of giggles in my throat ) half the little souvenirs that littered her room were tokens of gratitude — from Torquay , Margate and Llandrindod Wells — I pulled myself together with a great effort , and took my hands from my face . |
| 15 | Tonight , I find myself here in a guest house in the city of Salisbury . |
| 16 | She 's very concerned and the present line partial though it be , represents a a blight situation on that , on the , on potential er occupants of that line and certainly erm I find myself more in in er agreement with Darcy 's views than I do with the other two councillors of East Grinstead , that 's not er not secret |
| 17 | I gave myself away to everybody : fat , high , low , ugly , perfumed and badly-smelling . ’ |
| 18 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 19 | I could n't bear her look of hurt expectancy any more , so I tore myself away from her face and walked off . |
| 20 | Just for the sake of neatness , I 'd asked Miss Hinkle to set Sam Thompson to work finding out about Mrs. Porter and her big black car when I excused myself early in the interview with her . |
| 21 | If Aschmann becomes unable to perform — as a result of your deliberately destructive influence — I would at once have to issue a statement making it plain that from now on I disassociate myself entirely from the Hochhauser Season . ’ |
| 22 | But again I held myself warily at a certain distance , not daring to make contact with him for fear of falling into the kind of trap Dana had prepared for me . |
| 23 | I see myself really as an impresario . |
| 24 | Henry VI gave them a court leet in 1451 , which concerned itself largely with the minor social offences common to any medieval town ; poor-quality weaving and leaving dead animals lying about the streets seem to have occurred fairly commonly . |
| 25 | He clearly favours a state which involves itself essentially through monetary transaction rather than direct intervention in other more qualitative spheres of life . |
| 26 | Left hemisphere control of sequential motor activity which lent itself readily to a symbolic gestural system may have been the evolutionary precursor to present day lateralisation of language . |
| 27 | But , whatever their knowledge , of far greater importance in official thinking was the strategic value of a power source which lent itself naturally to centralized control , which was operated by a well paid , reliable work-force and which would continue to keep the miners at bay . |
| 28 | There had been an attempt at a revolution in Russia , but then nobody concerned themselves much with the eccentricities of the world south of Cathcart or east of Camlachie , unless it might touch on trade . |
| 29 | A further contrast , as I have indicated , may be drawn between the political systems of ‘ developed ’ and ‘ underdeveloped ’ societies , often in terms of the instability of the latter as compared with the former ( Huntington , 1968 ) ; an instability which manifests itself partly in the frequency of military coups and the prevalence of military regimes in the non-industrial countries . |
| 30 | Again , in 1981–7 the Volkswagenstiftung funded on a large scale the ARCOS project , a system which photographs a three-dimensional archaeological object , provides a drawing and converts it into data which lend themselves easily to methods like Cluster Analysis . |