Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long time , no see , ’ he murmured after getting himself a coffee . |
| 2 | St Albans Crown Court heard how 50 year old David Lashley raped and killed the 24 year old after earning himself the reputation of a habitual rapist . |
| 3 | On Dec. 28 , Nagorny Karabakh ( an autonomous region within Azerbaijan ) held elections to a parliament , after proclaiming itself a republic . |
| 4 | I fear , however , that in my anxiety to win the support of Mrs Clements and the girls , I did not perhaps assess quite as stringently my own limitations ; and although my experience and customary caution in such matters prevented my giving myself more than I could actually carry out , I was perhaps negligent over this question of allowing myself a margin . |
| 5 | Nor had Innocent any intention of allowing himself the humiliation of Lateran I where the council defeated the pope . |
| 6 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
| 7 | Caroline , poised on the first-floor terrace of her mother 's old town house in Kalkara Creek , in the act of pouring herself a Campari and orange in the midday sunshine , looked up and started to smile politely . |
| 8 | ‘ I am not afraid of calling myself a trader despite the fact it is now rather fashionable to describe the field you work in as a profession , ’ he says . |
| 9 | The answer is to develop the habit of asking yourself the question ‘ What went well ? ’ |
| 10 | So he obtained the job , unfortunately at the cost of giving himself a hernia for which he needed hospital treatment . |
| 11 | Like getting a wage packet again , instead of voting myself a salary as my own director or whatever it is they make me do . ’ |
| 12 | The window was slammed down and Broomhead waited , taking the opportunity of rolling himself a cigarette . |
| 13 | Instead of making yourself a killing machine , now you make yourself a sex machine ( look at titles like ‘ Body To Body , ’ ‘ Drive ’ ) . |
| 14 | As she says : ‘ There seems to be so little appreciation of the potentially devastating emotional effect of finding yourself a victim ’ |
| 15 | Other people , more strong-minded than me , use the reverse tactics of promising themselves a reward when they have done something difficult . |
| 16 | HOWARD GAYLE , the former Liverpool and Blackburn Rovers winger , will be training with Wrexham next week in the hope of earning himself a contract . |
| 17 | They 're specially chosen for summer drinking , when you feel like giving yourselves a connoisseur 's treat . |
| 18 | The most senior candidate , Adam Matthews , 16 , of the Socialist Labour Party , said his party would abolish the Queen , generals and public schools , put the Royal Family out to work as wardens in nature parks , and prosecute Arsenal under the Trade Descriptions Act for calling themselves a football team . |
| 19 | His back towards her , he was engaged — not in rifling the boat as she had supposed , but in cooking himself a meal on the Calor gas stove . |
| 20 | Tolkien 's romance was an amalgam , then , and a potent one ; and its improbable success in his sixties lay not just in proving itself a bestseller but in making of itself the heart and mind of an international cult : a cult that was to spread to England from romantically-minded lands like California and the Antipodes . |
| 21 | She was so wrapped up in the portrait that she heard nothing until the clink of glass told her she was not alone , and as she spun round she found Alain turning from pouring himself a drink . |
| 22 | Far from calling himself a god he admits his own inadequacies — he can not rebuild the dome , he can not claim to have fed on honey-dew and drunk the Milk of paradise . |
| 23 | calm them down ; — prevent them from doing themselves an injury ; — do n't leave them alone ; — if they do n't calm down , call an ambulance or doctor ( dial 999 ) . |
| 24 | " some allowance in respect of his charges in finding himself a scholehouse , for that the comon scholehouse was by the Mayor and townsmen of Stockport deteyned from him . |
| 25 | When a girl was a marriageable age , her father advertised this by placing a pot of sweet basil on the windowsill of his house ; the young man interested in finding himself a bride would send a matchmaker to her parents , as guarantors of his good character . |
| 26 | Maria Iñes was dumpy and talkative ; Maria Teresa was dark and very like João , though not quite so good looking , and Maria de Graça was taller , plainer , and so intent upon winning herself a place in Heaven that she had little conversation for anyone apart from Padre Jorge , an oily man with plump little hands and a great anxiety to be first to agree with Dom João in everything he said . |
| 27 | He did have street cunning , most if it aimed to keeping himself a mystery . |
| 28 | Though he does not wear white overalls and wander about with a paint brush in his hand , he insists on calling himself a decorator ( Manhattan-English for interior designer ) . |
| 29 | Since she has done the unthinkable in LA and has never got round to buying herself a car , bus rides are the only way of getting around and the 6am commute to work brings her daily inspiration . |
| 30 | From watching and applauding a youngster 's efforts and triumphs to giving yourself a pat on the back for working well and doing things properly you 'll be chuffed and cheered by today 's developments . |