Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Two explosions in quick succession made me throw myself to the ground . |
2 | May I associate myself with the praise that has been heaped on the know-how fund ? |
3 | May I associate myself with the Prime Minister 's remarks about Queen Elizabeth II ? |
4 | But I have to ask myself this — would I hate myself in the morning ? ’ |
5 | Only after leaving did I glimpse myself in the mirror . |
6 | Can I propose yourself as the Chair of this Committee ? |
7 | Why the hell did n't you throw yourself at the door ? ’ |
8 | Do you regard yourself to the left or to the right in politics ? |
9 | Only after these days can she present herself to the priest for ritual atonement of her impurity : |
10 | … should n't you protect yourself against the financial effects of a serious injury ? |
11 | In the last resort the only satisfactory answer to the question , ‘ Why do you devote yourself to the attempt to understand ? ’ is , ‘ Because I derive so strong a satisfaction from doing so . ’ |
12 | Nor do I believe that it can be said that in no way can we disentangle ourselves from the religious myth which we have inherited . |
13 | That 's quite ludicrous , why should they shoot themselves in the foot and is Mr seriously suggesting the same thing ? |
14 | Apart from that , there 's a certain justification for the MC4 clasping the live album nettle — given that it was their constant , sometimes belligerent belief in gigging that helped them establish themselves in the first place . |
15 | But why could n't he rid himself of the eerie sensation that it had already happened , that everyone knew except him , that he was being deliberately kept in the dark ? |
16 | But how far , even as an occasional visitor , could he isolate himself from the community , from their private tragedies no less than their dinner parties ? |
17 | Recognising the difficulty that arises in the countries of central and eastern Europe , can he commit himself to the urgent introduction of EFTA applications , recognising the special bridges that they have with those countries and the Baltic states ? |
18 | Will he address himself to the fact that no less than 44 per cent . |
19 | Let us content ourselves for the moment with finding out exactly which of the axioms given earlier are required to establish property M. First , then , we prove , giving all the details , Lemma 1.2.1 |
20 | Before looking more closely at our departed medium Doris and other psychics and their phenomena , let us remind ourselves of the main areas . |
21 | Let us remind ourselves of the grounding formula for choices of ends : |
22 | First of all , let us remind ourselves of the traditional picture of children drawn for us by some great philosophers of the past . |
23 | In the meantime , let us address ourselves to the problem of those poor souls on the fo'c's'le . |