Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have taught me to forget myself by demeaning yourself to be free to a poor servant . |
| 2 | drives me to place myself inside it . |
| 3 | I was , after all , living with a man who was stealing from me , keeping part of his life secret from me , who expected me to adapt myself to his obsessive timekeeping . |
| 4 | Instead of retaining exclusive control over classroom resources , Rick showed pupils where equipment , etc. was kept and expected them to help themselves to whatever they needed . |
| 5 | ‘ In European countries , it took the working class years and years before they fully realized the fact that they formed a distinct and , under existing conditions , a permanent class of modern society ; and it took years again until this class-consciousness led them to form themselves into a distinct political party , independent of , and opposed to , all the old political parties formed by the various sections of the ruling classes . |
| 6 | The severe psychological damage inflicted upon the captive Biros led them to tear themselves from their shackles and plunge into toilet bowls , become suicidally entangled about gear sticks or wrap themselves around handlebars . |
| 7 | Two explosions in quick succession made me throw myself to the ground . |
| 8 | If I should tell at a tea table in London , that I have crossed the Atlantick in an open boat , how they 'd shudder , and what a fool they 'd think me to expose myself to such danger . ’ |
| 9 | " You want me to flaunt meself before the face of the Holy Virgin in some flimsy shift which leaves no man doubt as to what 's beneath it ? |
| 10 | You expect me to detach myself from my non-bourgeois essence … to honour your gods , your fathers , your Revolution … |
| 11 | ‘ The same way you expect me to keep myself for your use now , ’ Maria snapped derisively , scalded by the shame of the knowledge that that was exactly what she was going to do , and tired of hearing about her supposed affair with Florian . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had a feeling that Maidstone mentioned them to vindicate himself in the eyes of others . |
| 14 | I expect she kicks herself for giving him those special facilities now , because it 's sure to be one of those jaw-breaking pieces of unreadability Americans produce . |
| 15 | Others say she avenges herself of the insult offered by her erstwhile lover by luring fishermen and other sailors to their doom . |
| 16 | Say we picture ourselves in a desert and all these people want some water , but one person goes and gets it ? |
| 17 | Luisella had also been the child of a successful businessman , owner of one of the most important chemist 's shops in Treviso , and she too had had brothers who had dominated her childhood , driving her to defend herself in unorthodox ways . |
| 18 | Robbe-Grillet 's insistence upon the essentially ludic dimension of all of his fiction ( and cinema ) was also a means of escaping what might be termed the prison-house of reflexivity ; it was not uncommon to find him distancing himself from Ricardou , even during the conference devoted to his work in 1975 , at which he claimed that even his supposedly ‘ theoretical ’ utterances over the years should be construed as attempts to maintain plurality and mobility . |
| 19 | One source said : ‘ It would come as no surprise to find her driving herself to the church . |
| 20 | The sheer beauty of their surroundings helped her to distance herself from the unsettling vibrations between them . |
| 21 | Without communicating criticism , David was able to convey to Julia something which helped her to see herself through the eyes of others . |
| 22 | As though his feet were programmed he found himself at the Incident Room . |
| 23 | Others , however , felt a similar shudder at the thought of telling and discussing the political jokes about contemporary leaders of the modern Arab World and advised me to confine myself to the days of the Prophet and the early imams . |
| 24 | How do you expect me to conceive myself as no longer existent ? ’ |
| 25 | It is a process that allows me to locate myself in a space , to understand a space in terms of my physical movement . |
| 26 | Still they were a generous , friendly bunch and they told me to make myself at home until the editorial meeting later in the afternoon . |
| 27 | It does n't prevent them being ambitious and idealistic for themselves , or stop them comparing themselves with other students in their class , their school , in other parts of the country or the world . |
| 28 | If an employer does not prevent them availing themselves of the opportunity to learn business secrets how can he later seek to restrain an employee from using the same information . |
| 29 | Settle down with a good book , and let them blow themselves to bits . |
| 30 | Hold up the glass to such viewers , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , and let them see themselves in it . |