Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] a [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 | One night I promised myself a hot water bottle , a basket of marzipan fruits and a video . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | I poured myself a huge whisky . |
| 8 | I poured myself a stiff drink and tossed it down . |
| 9 | I allowed myself a brief glance at Alison 's ample contours . |
| 10 | Consequentially , when I saw him marching swiftly towards me I permitted myself a brief groan . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Distracted from my course in self-improvement , I mixed myself a brutal martini and fell to pondering such juxtapositions . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Later she made herself a light salad for lunch and ate it on the terrace . |
| 20 | In Israel if you got in debt you made yourself a voluntary slave for six years to the person you owed money to , a form of community service , and then you were set free after six years and your debts cancelled and you were given a new start in life . |
| 21 | ‘ Do you consider yourself a rich man ? ’ |
| 22 | Torn between tears and laughter , she found herself a clean dress and frilly hat in her locker and went into the showers . |
| 23 | The budget had been the topic of fierce argument , but in the end it was passed by a huge majority , satisfying the Prime Minister , who proclaimed himself a happy man after having threatened to resign if he did not get his way . |
| 24 | Now if you 're a racing buff , listen out because it 's a superb prize , if you consider yourself a little bit of an expert on the turf that is . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh bother ! ’ she allowed herself a wee expletive and reached for the telephone daintily with whitened fingers . |
| 26 | She took the men 's cheers as somehow directed at herself , at her person , not at the food alone , but unlike the chorus that might greet the appearance of some women of the town , they did not place her in danger , and she allowed herself a small smile in acknowledgement , and came forward to set the dish down . |
| 27 | She allowed herself a small smile . |
| 28 | She allowed herself a small smile . |
| 29 | She allowed herself a small smile , mostly because he 'd accepted her medical opinion but still had n't guessed she was a doctor . |
| 30 | She allowed herself a thin smile of triumph . |