Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organisations may also be made up of different groups and professions and when these groups seek to assert themselves then the organisation may well be characterised by competition between groups . |
| 2 | With hindsight , it 's clear that I was too single-minded about racing , too immersed , and that if I 'd paced myself better the joy would have lasted much longer . ’ |
| 3 | You know not the innocence you abuse so freely Would to God that instead of a woman and my sister , any man breathing had dared to give himself half the airs you have done . |
| 4 | Calling itself both the Rwandan Patriotic Front ( RPF ) and Ikontanyi , the rebel force consisted of several thousand Rwandan refugees based in Uganda , led by Maj.-Gen. |
| 5 | She was calling herself all the names under the sun , but it made no difference . |
| 6 | We called ourselves proudly the extremists , the vanguard , but it was n't until we read the American CLIT papers in 1973 that we knew we had a name other than men-haters . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , she 's certainly not drivin' herself all the way down through Chile to Punta Arenas . |
| 8 | He also stated in terms that can not be misunderstood that science is after all a human activity , dependent on human imagination to produce its hypotheses , absolutely incapable of describing the world absolutely , but setting itself merely the obligation of bouncing its ideas against reality . |
| 9 | She had spent most of the time upstairs trying to look more than OK , and had despised herself all the while for even trying . |
| 10 | I kicked myself all the way back to the hotel for being an arrant coward , and next day persuaded my companion to return with me to the scene of our defeat and try again . |
| 11 | Although the popularity of the war economy lay at the root of the growth of socialism during the First World War , liberal internationalism was quick to reassert itself once the war was over . |
| 12 | I debated whether to introduce myself once the committal was over . |