Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pn reflx] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without an art school training , Romanowski , now in his late 20s , has taught himself the methods of the masters through reproductions in books and paintings hanging on gallery walls . |
| 2 | So continuous is this precipitation that it has earned itself the name of ‘ marine snow ’ . |
| 3 | He has set himself the task of trying to discuss the agenda Labour needs to develop over the next two decades on issues such as training , education and poverty . |
| 4 | The university has set itself the objective of becoming an outstanding research and teaching university . |
| 5 | Yesterday the Labour coordinating committee met for its annual get together , now this is the body that has set itself the task of modernizing the Labour Party , a difficult task at the best of times , made more difficult now because there is a growing shortage of volunteers for the cause , they ca n't even raise enough members to fill their own executive . |
| 6 | But given that the RSPB has set itself the task of changing European farming policy to save the Barn Owl , it 's going to be a monumental task . |
| 7 | Cleveland Aid for Romanian Children has set itself the task of completely renovating a 55-bed long stay hospital in Iasi for children suffering from hepatitis and diabetes . |
| 8 | For example , the West Midlands Regional Health Service has set itself the target of achieving a minimum of 33% of women non-executive directors who will advise on and develop the Regional Health Authority 's policy . |
| 9 | Sweden has set itself the target of freezing carbon dioxide emissions at 1986 levels by the year 2010 . |
| 10 | Britain has just 8 megawatts of wind power capacity installed to date , compared with 35 MW in India , 250 MW in Denmark and 1,400 MW in California — which has set itself the target of meeting 10 per cent of energy needs through wind power by the year 2000 . |
| 11 | Clinton was expected to declare himself the winner at 4am British time , even before some polls on the west coast closed . |
| 12 | She did not really need to ask herself the question . |
| 13 | How would he be if on one of those Saturday mornings when he 'd hung around the rectory she 'd recognized herself the bitterness beneath his grin ? |
| 14 | Had I proposed to keep working until the hotel was a hotbed of gossip , and leave only when I 'd made myself the centre of a tasty little scandal ? |
| 15 | Refusing to allow herself the indulgence of looking in the mirror and repairing her make-up , she walked slowly back down the hall and opened the door again with trembling hands . |
| 16 | But it was when I came to ask myself the reason for such a wild suggestion that I received a greater shock . |
| 17 | At St Martin 's School of Art , where they 'd met three years previously , they had already decided to make themselves the subject of their art . |
| 18 | As with the other areas discussed above , style has achieved a certain autonomy in contemporary industrial society , going beyond its capacity for ordering to become itself the focus of concern . |
| 19 | As soon as we stop exerting ourselves the blood pressure returns to normal again . |
| 20 | Notwithstanding the welcome opportunity to see the work of this distinguished artist , I was left with the depressing realisation that when one compares the contribution of the women artists with that of the men one sees that the women artist has had to deny herself the luxury of exploring and depicting those ‘ strange developments ’ that exploit humour as well as horror , and which ultimately liberate artist and viewer alike . |
| 21 | Twenty years ago they were Labour but switched in 1979 for one reasons , the right to buy which gave those genuinely attempting to better themselves the chance to do so . |
| 22 | ‘ And then I began to ask myself the questions all over again . |
| 23 | To think they could have saved themselves the worry . |
| 24 | I might have saved myself the trouble , as the family remained together for only a short time afterwards ; my sisters married , leaving only my mother and myself at home … |
| 25 | I could have saved myself the trouble . |
| 26 | You might have saved yourself the bother . ’ |
| 27 | If that 's what you 've been looking for you could have saved yourself the trouble . |
| 28 | They developed a sort of regimental spirit about it , and started calling themselves the Firm . |
| 29 | ‘ Otherwise you would have spared yourself the journey . |
| 30 | We decided to call ourselves the Friends of John McCarthy because that 's what we were . |