Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [prep] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Gunn means by this is , I think , that everyone realises the risks but yet we all feel a tendency to delude ourselves of any possibility that it might happen to us . |
| 2 | For that reason , the Territorial Army does not consider itself in any way a second-class alternative . |
| 3 | According to Oakeshott , something less pretentious will do ; viz. , ‘ that we are not children in statu pupillari but adults who do not consider themselves under any obligation to justify their preference for making their own choices ’ . |
| 4 | After a week of intensive treatment at Farnham Park my back was hurting more than ever , so I discharged myself without any hope of a cure . |
| 5 | They could have discharged themselves at any time , but they were destitute and the best was done for them that was possible in the circumstances . |
| 6 | … trying to insinuate oneself at any price into the families of the older European dynasties . |
| 7 | ‘ Get out of the road th'dozy black lump … cooking th'self like any cannibal ! ’ |
| 8 | The others keened themselves for any sound , for any indication of anyone responding to Silk 's movement — the clink of a grenade pin , the withering blast of a machine gun . |
| 9 | To insist on an overtly Polish identity was to exclude oneself from polite and educated Danzig society and to disqualify oneself from any job that promised social and economic advancement . |
| 10 | At the same time , by refusing to adopt a material ought , normative positivism radically separates itself from any suggestion that there is a necessary connection between law and any critical morality . |
| 11 | As a result Mossad involves itself in any type of operation that it feels helps Israel or at least deters its enemies . |
| 12 | The Socialist League defended itself against any suggestion that it was exceeding its limited aims . |
| 13 | During the Cultural Revolution , for example , a woman could be severely beaten for attempting to adorn herself in any way and ‘ running after bourgeois ways ’ . |
| 14 | They all knew that Freddie had , as usual , ended yet another affair , but they reckoned that Liza could have consoled herself with any number of more suitable admirers . |
| 15 | If Jane Leeson had been a woman to examine her motives she would have absolved herself from any accusation of spite . |
| 16 | I was now certain that I could not see myself in any type of residential home in the future . |
| 17 | At the same time the GCC instituted collective security arrangements whereby the six , while rejecting outside intervention , would defend themselves against any attack made upon any one of them . |
| 18 | Quite apart from such specific minor functions , there are no practical restraints upon either House of Parliament seeking to busy itself with any task whatever that it cares to assume . |
| 19 | People are like chameleons : they can adjust themselves to any environment so long as they 've no alternative . |
| 20 | Senior officials could carry on with the day-to-day business of the state without concerning themselves with any kind of specialist ministerial control . |
| 21 | I 'm just lucky really that I never cut myself to any extent , because if I had tried to ring my bell , they would have said , ‘ Tough , wait until the morning . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I can visualize you three duelling many times till you inoculate yourselves against any trace of enmity . ’ |
| 23 | But I think we must be given freedom to choose the time and not commit ourselves to any timetable . |
| 24 | A Herefordshire hobgoblin would avenge himself for any insult by stealing all the family 's keys and refusing to return them until his favourite cake had been baked and left on the hob for him to eat . |
| 25 | This application is for a lesser number of flats , but is not , is looking to clear itself of any encumbrance over occu occupancy . |
| 26 | It was aimed at enabling Britain to remain a decisive player in Western Europe without committing itself in any way to supranationalism . |
| 27 | But that would still mean the year with the terrible Mother Clare to qualify herself for any kind of work . |
| 28 | Do you reward yourself in any way for your success ? |
| 29 | Mr Tebbit was keen yesterday to distance himself from any comparison with Mr Powell . |
| 30 | The truly self-employed works quite independently , without involving himself/herself in any form of wage work . |