Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last years of her life were divided between Bermuda and Plandome , Long Island , where she built herself an Italian-style villa and where she died 29 October 1924 . |
| 2 | William was just five months 11 days old at the start ; he had already sailed over 1,500 miles , was the contented centre of attention and was still fresh from triumph in the fancy dress competition , where he earned himself the prize of a furry whale for his appearance as a white mouse . |
| 3 | But although I asked myself the question , I knew the answer . |
| 4 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 5 | Choir night , so I get myself an early supper . |
| 6 | Although she considers herself a practical , outgoing person more than an intellectual , she has always found literature a great mental enricher . |
| 7 | ‘ Claudia , Claude was her real name , of course , but we could n't be doing with that , was an anthropologist , although she called herself an ethnographer , I remember , ’ says Fairfax . |
| 8 | As I said in earlier chapters , though , when you live alone two things are very important — firstly that you love and take care of yourself , and secondly , that you give yourself a treat now and then . |
| 9 | So when you 're planning your retirement , make sure that you give yourself a reasonable standard of living in terms of income . |
| 10 | That 's right trying to find work these days can be demanding and extremely frustrating so you want to make sure that you give yourself the best chance of getting a job and one way to help is to do a good application form and know how to handle yourself in an interview . |
| 11 | Cook and Joan would not be down for another hour yet , so she made herself a cup of coffee on the gas stove . |
| 12 | It got to be hard to handle , so she bought herself a small file box and some packages of 2 × 3 cards . |
| 13 | O.K. So you flogged yourself a little more . |
| 14 | It could be that you 've never taken your family abroad on holiday , so you set yourself a little objective , that in two years ' time , I want to take them all , even if it 's a damn package deal on a flight to Tenerife , do it , will you feel good , will the family enjoy it ? |
| 15 | Thus the philosophical Greeks and the industrious Chinese will do as instances of non-restriction only on condition that we allow ourselves a strangely overgeneralized view of the Greeks and the Chinese . |
| 16 | It seems to me clear that the answer has to be yes , provided only that we allow ourselves a sufficiently large series of Ks . |
| 17 | Once we grant ourselves the licence to collect the physical artefacts of software , there remain , at least at first sight , respects in which software is both like , and unlike , traditional museum objects . |
| 18 | It is precisely there that they considered themselves the most competent and consequently interfered in all spheres of its life . |
| 19 | Nine years have passed since my divorce and I tell myself the half-forgotten betrayals and deceits are old news . |
| 20 | I went to the flat and I got myself a job working in Woolworth 's in Reading . |
| 21 | It was just on opening time , and I stood myself a drink in a City pub that did n't really want me — a woman was still vacuuming the bar . |
| 22 | She was a hard worker , and I call myself a hard worker and I know that some days I push myself too hard and my mother 's done that all her life . |
| 23 | And I call myself a businessman ! |
| 24 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 25 | Lewis says his love for his mother Vi will keep him out of trouble , declaring : ‘ She brought me into this world and I consider myself a mother 's boy — I owe it all to her . |
| 26 | ( ‘ Would you believe me if I called myself a Puritan ? |
| 27 | It is the most beautiful thing you will ever wear — until I surpass myself the next time ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It is beautiful , ’ she said coyly , ‘ it is the most beautiful dress I will ever wear , until I surpass myself the next time . ’ |
| 29 | But one feels now that the man who stood on the soapbox and who made himself a target for eggs is ready for it . |
| 30 | Her eyes misted at this heroic image , and she poured herself a brandy . |