Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pn reflx] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mister Grant has passed the crisis point now , and you 've been denying yourself proper amounts of sleep for the past five days . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been asking myself that question , ’ Jenna confessed , but all she got was another suspicious look . |
| 3 | Now let it rub off on greedy directors of other companies , especially those recently privatised , who have been giving themselves huge rises while keeping down workers ' pay . |
| 4 | ‘ Billy 's runnin' around wiv a nasty crowd of 'ippidy'oys. 'E 'll be gettin' 'imself inter trouble wiv the police if 'e 's not careful . ’ |
| 5 | She was meant to be persuading herself that life was worth living . |
| 6 | For if so , you can be finding yourself another shipmaster , for it 's not me that will stand responsible for your mistakes ! |
| 7 | The wind drops slightly as I am making myself another cup of tea and I like the idea of going out to watch the sun go down . |
| 8 | She also talked of naked greed , although it takes a curious kind of logic to see the deprived as greedy while company directors were awarding themselves large pay increases and the ‘ yuppies ’ in the city were making a great deal of money and spending it as conspicuously as possible . |
| 9 | MONTSERRAT , the tiny Caribbean island that once boasted one bank for every 40 inhabitants , is bracing itself this Easter for a spate of arrests following a three-year fraud and corruption investigation by Scotland Yard . |
| 10 | As you progress , the next facet of rallying is to give yourselves higher-level objectives , which include seeking to hit the ball in a more confined area . |
| 11 | ‘ She says not to worry , she 's found herself some work . ’ |
| 12 | To copy currently successful trends is to place yourself two years behind … instantly ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Are you thinking about the fact that we might have been murdered ourselves last night ? ’ |
| 14 | She was pouring herself more coffee when he walked into the conservatory . |
| 15 | Being something of a closet linguist , I was teaching myself some Arabic in my spare time . |
| 16 | ‘ Up to that point , all I was interested in was relieving myself any way I could , and the women were throwing themselves at me and it was great , it was pleasurable , no problem . |