Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here you can relax in a pine lodge overlooking a lovely garden , or sun yourself on the semi-circular sun terrace . |
| 2 | You can not force or dragoon yourself into a concentrated effort . |
| 3 | It 's one of those rare books of comic genius that imprints itself on the brain and can never afterwards be eradicated . |
| 4 | Specifically , it is to query the new received wisdom , that the alternative party to the Conservatives in British politics has only to take the consumerist road , and present itself as the protector of the individual against Big Business and Big Government . |
| 5 | I run to the bedroom , clutch the lump of hash from the bookshelf , and lock myself in the bathroom , turning the taps on . |
| 6 | That would be the best time to refinance with a fixed-rate mortgage and lock oneself into the German virtuous circle of medium-paced growth , low inflation and minimal home loan costs . |
| 7 | Praetextatus of Rouen was tried at Paris in 577 , and Gregory himself at a gathering of bishops at the royal palace of Berny-Rivière in 580 : both these last trials were held under the aegis of Chilperic I. A year later the flight of Mummolus was discussed at Lyons . |
| 8 | 2 or 3 days at home in Oxfordshire is a luxury , even when he does get the chance to relax , he watches re-runs and readies himself for the next race . |
| 9 | As you cruise the waterways on a luxury motor launch feast your eyes on the illuminated city and feast yourself on a delightful 4 course dinner — aperitif , wine and liqueur included . |
| 10 | Steel your heart , gird up your vitals and content yourself with the company of bold fellows like Kelly and myself … ’ |
| 11 | The conversation between the four of them ranged from the trial and Venice itself to the difficulties besetting the people who were trying to build a better , more humane world than the old one on the wreckage left by the war . |
| 12 | More usually it left him ashamed and angry , despite his wife 's kind words of consolation , and Ashi herself in an agitated state of dissatisfaction and unhappiness . |
| 13 | During this period the Board has also had to find its feet , build up its staff resources to the planned level and concern itself with the production of some weighty discussion documents . |
| 14 | Criticism , he argued , should be opposed to this kind of scholarship , and concern itself with the specifically literary properties of texts . |
| 15 | After eighty yards we came to the rails and sleepers themselves under a foot of water leading onwards into the blackness . |
| 16 | If it travelled up into the skull it might ricochet off the skull table and bed itself in the bone . |
| 17 | The show , described as a ‘ human demolition spectacular ’ by circus leader Jim Rose , features The Amazing Mr Lifto ( pictured ) , Slug The Sword Swallower , Mat The Pharmacist ( who practises non-incision hospital operating procedures on himself ) and The Torture King , whose act includes sticking 40 meat skewers through his face , neck and torso , attacking a lightbulb to each skewer end , and wiring himself to an electrical generator to illuminate the bulbs . |
| 18 | So you might as well go to the information office in San Marco and book yourself on the next flight out of here . |
| 19 | Why not go the whole hog and book yourself into a health farm for a really relaxing break . |
| 20 | Kick hard with your feet and position yourself by the rear quarter of the board . |
| 21 | Darwin brought not only animals but man himself into the evolutionary scheme . |