Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made myself a nice profit out of it . |
| 2 | So , impressed by him , I got myself a bass guitar . |
| 3 | I found myself a nice bit of grass with a backrest against a tree trunk and waited for the show to begin . |
| 4 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 5 | I found myself the only ‘ other ’ . |
| 6 | One night I promised myself a hot water bottle , a basket of marzipan fruits and a video . |
| 7 | ‘ Even if the Mad Killer epithet will be attributed to me by the media , I consider myself a rational erudite that only the arrival of the Grim Reaper has forced to take extreme acts . |
| 8 | I poured myself a huge whisky . |
| 9 | I poured myself a stiff drink and tossed it down . |
| 10 | I allowed myself a brief glance at Alison 's ample contours . |
| 11 | Choir night , so I get myself an early supper . |
| 12 | Nine years have passed since my divorce and I tell myself the half-forgotten betrayals and deceits are old news . |
| 13 | Consequentially , when I saw him marching swiftly towards me I permitted myself a brief groan . |
| 14 | I find myself the only thing is to change the subject . |
| 15 | Late that night I ask myself the age-old question . |
| 16 | Furthermore , I think there is a problem for Christians today in thinking in terms of this non-gendered cosmic Christ which forms the key to her Christology ( and I am sure I should have thought this at the time when I counted myself a Christian ) . |
| 17 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
| 18 | Many years ago I knitted myself a sleeveless jumper in mercerised cotton ; this stretched in the wash until it was more like a mini-dress . |
| 19 | Soon after taking up my job as cub reporter I bought myself a big radio and a gramophone and continued collecting recordings of Gilbert & Sullivan and classical music . |
| 20 | She was a hard worker , and I call myself a hard worker and I know that some days I push myself too hard and my mother 's done that all her life . |
| 21 | Distracted from my course in self-improvement , I mixed myself a brutal martini and fell to pondering such juxtapositions . |
| 22 | Seldes pointed out that no encouragement had been given ‘ to the movie which dealt honestly with life , which created tragedy , which allowed itself a grim and unhappy ending ’ . |
| 23 | A pressure group , which calls itself the Coordinating Committee on Depo-Provera , has submitted 400 pages of evidence to the appeal panel , which began hearings this week . |
| 24 | The anti-democratic movement , which calls itself the anti-tribal movement , is considering widening the net in its search for suitable replacement students . |
| 25 | The head of a new clandestine 250-member opposition group inside Malawi , which calls itself the United Democratic Party , said Mr Chihana 's return yesterday was ‘ suicide and an unnecessary waste of human life ’ . |
| 26 | The most obvious connection was , of course , France itself and on most occasions which presented themselves the French told the Americans of their difficulties and requirements in Indo-China , how many of their troops were there and , usually , how many they had lost . |
| 27 | Four parties had previously collaborated with the SED within the National Front : ( i ) the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) which merged with the West German CDU on Oct. 1 [ see p. 37761 ] ; ( ii ) the Democratic Farmers ' Party of Germany ( DBD ) , whose chair , Günther Maleuda , resigned on June 25 and was temporarily replaced by Ulrich Junghanns pending a merger with the CDU ; ( iii ) the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany ( LDPD ) , which renamed itself the Liberal Democratic Party and joined the new League of Free Democrats in February 1990 and merged with the West German FDP in August [ see p. 37661 ] ; and ( iv ) the National Democratic Party of Germany ( NDPD ) which joined the League of Free Democrats in March [ see pp. 37260 ; 37302 ] . |
| 28 | It also conveyed the message that the CFLN — which renamed itself the Provisional Government of the French Republic ( GPRF — Gouvernement Provisoire de la République Français ) as of June 1944 — had a role beyond liberation . |
| 29 | Going through to the kitchen , she made herself a hot drink , and carried it into the room where the fire was at last beginning to heat up the air a little . |
| 30 | Later she made herself a light salad for lunch and ate it on the terrace . |