Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Although she considers herself a practical , outgoing person more than an intellectual , she has always found literature a great mental enricher . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So when you 're planning your retirement , make sure that you give yourself a reasonable standard of living in terms of income . |
| 5 | Cook and Joan would not be down for another hour yet , so she made herself a cup of coffee on the gas stove . |
| 6 | It got to be hard to handle , so she bought herself a small file box and some packages of 2 × 3 cards . |
| 7 | O.K. So you flogged yourself a little more . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It seems to me clear that the answer has to be yes , provided only that we allow ourselves a sufficiently large series of Ks . |
| 11 | I went to the flat and I got myself a job working in Woolworth 's in Reading . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And I call myself a businessman ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ( ‘ Would you believe me if I called myself a Puritan ? |
| 18 | But one feels now that the man who stood on the soapbox and who made himself a target for eggs is ready for it . |
| 19 | Her eyes misted at this heroic image , and she poured herself a brandy . |
| 20 | She took the men 's cheers as somehow directed at herself , at her person , not at the food alone , but unlike the chorus that might greet the appearance of some women of the town , they did not place her in danger , and she allowed herself a small smile in acknowledgement , and came forward to set the dish down . |
| 21 | Again another thing too , is that boosting your ego side , if you s if you set yourself a little bit of a target and you can manage it er can you run up the hill ? |
| 22 | If you permit yourself a joke in arguing a moot you should not joke in court , at least until you are sufficiently experienced to know when one is allowable . |
| 23 | Now if you 're a racing buff , listen out because it 's a superb prize , if you consider yourself a little bit of an expert on the turf that is . |
| 24 | How would you feel if you knitted yourself a nice little doll , out of the most expensive yarn you could buy , and spent the best years of your life working on it to make it as perfect as you could — then it suddenly got up and walked away and turned into something different ? ’ |
| 25 | If you give yourself a shake , change your seating position slightly , open the clear vision panel for some fresh air , change hands on the stick for a few moments and have a sweet or drink , you can snap out of it and start to work normally again . |
| 26 | If you steady yourself a little you could be giving the Army and the Lord a good many years . |
| 27 | The fact a small region , and we call ourselves a region , that 's how we got the grants , we now see ourselves developing to support our colleagues in and see the need for a strong regional approach which my colleague will mention later . |
| 28 | An extra bottle of wine and some spare grub and he had himself a harmless court jester whose sallies were guaranteed to shock or amuse . |
| 29 | Parr was not a hasty man , and he gave himself a lot of space to think in . |
| 30 | No finer example of this can be seen than Castle Acre Priory , 1935 , in which the gaunt power of the medieval ruins is starkly silhouetted against the sky , and he permits himself a rare range of tonal contrast . |