Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd better mind yourself with this fellow . |
| 2 | Charles had so convinced himself of this that he did n't ring in to the production office until ten-thirty , deliberately giving the producer time to sober up his intoxicated imagination . |
| 3 | A subordinate class , such as the working class will , by definition , be low on economic resources and this will reproduce its subordination ; but it may also possibly generate a collective ethic to cope with adverse circumstances and so reproduce itself in this way according to a common cultural identity . |
| 4 | Suddenly finding herself in this strange dark place she naturally tried to retreat from it and all the farmer did was guide her . |
| 5 | Some phenomena may simply not lend themselves to this kind of analysis . |
| 6 | But it seems that I can not rid myself of this fear of running short of money . |
| 7 | Pohl has also specifically mentioned that Austria could easily annex itself to this monetary union since it has pegged the schilling to the Deutschmark for years . |
| 8 | Just get yourself in this car else we 'll be late . |
| 9 | Up to one-third of people can not force themselves through this procedure , even for the best of diagnostic reasons , and the court would never enforce a complete stay of the action in these circumstances ( see further RSC Order 25 , r 6 ) . |
| 10 | If it did not manifest itself in this particular way , however , Aethelbald 's power was none the less real . |
| 11 | ‘ Molly , I am not humiliating myself in this manner . ’ |
| 12 | It is a friendly act of mutual benefit to the two animals involved , since they can not groom themselves in this region . |
| 13 | In families that did not indulge themselves in this way a healthier climate prevailed ; children do not seem to have been unduly obsessed with death . |
| 14 | Swayed by similar arguments , the governments of the rich countries have now largely deprived themselves of this option . |
| 15 | What is called the ‘ moral sense ’ is on this account being able to recognize that if , even against my present will , I let myself become aware of how someone in trouble feels , I would be moved to help , and that I ought not to close myself to this awareness . |
| 16 | Some things needed to change , but some needed to remain the same and I usually found myself in this place pulling at the forces of change as a child might pull at the reins of a runaway horse . |
| 17 | Yet I recall an episode many years ago in which a man deliberately put himself in this predicament . |
| 18 | By June 6 the FLN secretary-general Abdelhamid Mehri and the leader of the Islamic Hamas party , Shaikh Mahfoud Nahnah , had also aligned themselves with this broad platform , which rejected affiliation to the proposed Patriotic Rally . |
| 19 | While the male of one of these species constructs the nest alone ( as in other weavers ) , in others the female also involves herself in this activity and in two cases receives the active assistance of additional apparently adult birds . |
| 20 | As well as giving reasons against Caesar becoming emperor , being no better , perhaps worse , than other men , Cassius also glorifies himself in this speech . |
| 21 | Benstede swept through the hall and tactfully presented himself before this array of the most powerful magnates in Scotland . |
| 22 | Stainless steel also lends itself to this modern form of finish . |
| 23 | Vocal groups might profitably address themselves to this relatively unexplored territory — there are 170 arias and more — but meanwhile a welcome to this well-chosen selection of songs . |
| 24 | And I 've known you a lot longer than has your so-called friend Rainbow here , thanks to whom you now find yourself in this lousy fix . ’ |
| 25 | When linguists became involved , with a few notable exceptions , it was mainly to distance themselves from this current of ideas and to introduce the second phase . |
| 26 | I noticed that children often marked themselves like this in play . |
| 27 | Take particular care that you insert a modification record with a issue number larger than 00.00Z ( the alpha character on the end of the issue number , the Development Code is mandatory ) , and that you then update the package 's pointer to itself so that it now selects itself at this new issue number . |
| 28 | He then holds up his own ideal , a calculated inversion which in a normal man might be the text for a denunciation of what Cicero called the treachery ‘ lurking under the false show of loyal service ’ : At this point , normally , the attack on evil would be made ; but Iago unconcernedly identifies himself with this group : ‘ These fellows have some soul , /And such a one do I profess myself ’ ( 53ff . ) . |
| 29 | Because my first experience of love was here , I have never wholly transplanted myself from this soil . |
| 30 | Pahl 's ‘ salaried immigrants ’ frequently ally themselves with this group on housing matters . |