Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Student union leaders at both Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores Universities stressed that students should not make themselves a target by going out alone . |
| 2 | The courts should not deny themselves the light which Parliamentary materials may shed on the meaning of the words Parliament has used and thereby risk subjecting the individual to a law which Parliament never intended to enact . |
| 3 | Dathan and Abiram for their part reject Moses ' leadership and reproach him with these words : ‘ Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey , to kill us in the wilderness , that you must also make yourself a prince over us ? ’ |
| 4 | You must also have yourself a motorcycle ( strangely enough ! ! ! ) and the cost of the machine depends on your age , and how much you are actually prepared to spend . |
| 5 | Er you must therefore ask yourselves the question , why is it therefore the government has decided to er re re remove the funding er for this particular project erm never mind they said er we now know how to build fast reactors , look there 's one we 've already built , a prototype we have th the , the er the th the blueprints , the drawings for a full scale version and when we actually need the fast reactors in say the year two thousand and ten or thereabouts , we 'll just get the blueprints out of the filing cabinet and we will build them . |
| 6 | Now he has revealed the mistakes that led to England 's early departure from the tournament , though fans might not find themselves a lot the wiser . |
| 7 | So if you hit the garage you 're going very very slowly and you might just give yourself a jolt but you would n't hurt yourself quite so much . |
| 8 | If I can keep up the Peter Sellers act long enough without dying of laughing , I might just get meself a few pints out of it . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought if we could get their nature thing together with your Alps thing , we might both do ourselves a bit of good . |
| 10 | In many ways , self-defence is like family planning : if you take precautions , you 'll often save yourself a lot of trouble . |
| 11 | He might even allow himself a wry laugh when he considers how the West has come to excoriate Ceausescu today , after all those years when they applauded his ‘ daring ’ dissent from Warsaw Pact orthodoxy , and acting as a thorn in the Kremlin 's body politic . |
| 12 | He suddenly wondered whether she smiled like that because she could rarely allow herself the full release of a complete smile , but must always keep one side of her lips tucked under control . |
| 13 | So I 'd just ask yourself the question before you react untoward towards a situation like this . |
| 14 | I 'd just get myself a fine eejit of a man to keep me in barley sugar all day . ’ |
| 15 | HEART-THROB movie star Kevin Costner could n't find himself a girlfriend as a teenager because he was too short and shy . |
| 16 | Girls who could n't get themselves a husband in this country were sent out to find one in the colonies and it seldom failed . ’ |
| 17 | He could n't call himself a violinist , he says , because , for four years , his fiddle had only three strings , forcing him to virtuosic feats of improvisation . |
| 18 | Silverstone calls itself the home of British motor racing and it could equally call itself the home of Formula One since the first race of the first world championship was held there in l950 . |
| 19 | I could never cook myself a meal , even with such complete mod. cons , and Hellen , who helped me arrange the furniture , pictures and scrolls , would tease me as ‘ the eternal bachelor ’ who could not fry an egg or boil water without burning it . |
| 20 | There could be a comeback for Town player manager Glenn Hoddle … he 's with the second division select side in Italy this week and may even give himself a game across there … |
| 21 | None of them would necessarily call himself a Daleyite , and Mr Daley would deny that he was creating a Democratic machine anything like the one that his father ran with such effect . |
| 22 | In the long run the West could help Russia and Eastern Europe more by opening its markets to their produce than by handing over cash — and would immediately make itself a lot better off in the process ( see page 50 ) . |
| 23 | I think that 's healthy , if you ca n't love yourself no one else will ! |
| 24 | I think that 's healthy , if you ca n't love yourself no one else will ! |
| 25 | I ca n't make myself an exception . |
| 26 | I ca n't give myself the great happiness of promising to be yours — because I am sure I ought not to ! ’ |
| 27 | But it 's better than giving handouts to the real mother in the first place , because with kids round her apron she ca n't find herself a job . |
| 28 | I want a plump wife and a happy one , otherwise we shall never get ourselves a family . " |
| 29 | Over the next few weeks it will slowly grow itself a new set of entrails . |
| 30 | Do not accept offers of tea or coffee if this is your problem as you will then give yourself the further anxiety of controlling the cup and saucer . |