Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The object may lend itself equally to the expression of difference , indicating the separate domains to which people or aspects of people belong , and to the expression of unity , connecting otherwise diverse domains . |
| 2 | You 're right ; they ought to pull themselves together at one place . |
| 3 | But if Lewis wants to wear the WBC crown with pride , he must set himself aside from Riddick Bowe 's yellow-bellied tactics . |
| 4 | If you know from experience that you are the over-anxious type you must take yourself firmly in hand and allot a fixed ration of time for revision , the rest of the day being spent in healthy exercise . |
| 5 | Bechor J. who gave the judgment of the court stated : ‘ English common law holds that a woman must submit herself totally to her husband . |
| 6 | We must apply ourselves right to the end of games . ’ |
| 7 | Yet in the absence of reductive , causal explanation , holism must content itself either with an ultimate appeal to the occult and inexplicable , or to doubtful functional metaphors concerning the ‘ social system ’ , ‘ social organism ’ , or whatever . |
| 8 | When I suggest that women have a strong ability to communicate with each other and form a collective body , it is not to imply that the individual should lose herself entirely in this . |
| 9 | Whatever category your interviewer falls into you should remind yourself even at this late stage that an interview is basically a conversation to find out how well two sides of a potential deal might suit one another . |
| 10 | They should devote themselves wholly to the problem of making life in South Africa , regarded as more or less a foreign country , bearable for self-respecting British men and women . |
| 11 | He said the NHS should address itself more to the needs of cancer patients so that they do not feel they have to go outside the system . |
| 12 | Any choir should scatter itself strategically in different parts of the congregation so that there are ‘ singing booster area ’ . |
| 13 | It was the philosophy of Epictetus that man must concern himself only with what is under his control ; what is under his control is his opinion about things and nothing else . |
| 14 | The disaster having taken place , however , the meeting must concern itself only with practical remedies . |
| 15 | If you know what your aims are ; if you make sure that you know how to memorise and recall ; if your reviews are effective , with good concentration , you may feel yourself well on the way to becoming a successful student with a bright future . |
| 16 | ‘ I am a bit scared of him , ’ admitted Angela ; ‘ but he might behave himself now for spoiling my Gnome costume . |
| 17 | So he 's got to be careful , and he 's worried that he might give himself away by some tiny flicker of expression . |
| 18 | In London , meanwhile , a Whitehall report citing all sorts of commercial opportunities at the British Museum has drawn a defensive response : suggestions that the museum might see itself more like a branch of the leisure industry have got the staff bristling with indignation . |
| 19 | ‘ He 'll drop himself right in it , one day . |
| 20 | Obviously , having two amps means you 'll hear yourself better on stage , but I would have thought that a performer would prefer actual monitoring or foldback to come from a PA source ( ie. what the audience is hearing ) rather than a backline source . |
| 21 | You appreciate that there is a fair chance that you might find yourself prematurely in another world ? |
| 22 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 23 | The music was amateurish and the performers self-conscious , but the evening was so beautiful that if you shut your eyes to the cars and the new shop blocks you might imagine yourself briefly in Shakespeare 's England . |
| 24 | In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer |
| 25 | Research can be carried out at all sorts of levels ; we could restrict ourselves simply to reading everything we can find and produce a piece of work which was wholly based on documentary sources and which did not involve us in attending any baptisms or asking anyone involved any questions . |
| 26 | ‘ So I climbed into the back seat , ’ he recalled , ‘ stripped off the suit I was wearing and put on my pyjamas , thinking I could dry myself afterwards with the spare pair . |
| 27 | He believed in doing , and came into his own when he was free to renounce the responsibility of reasoning anything out and could trust himself entirely to his own reflexes . |
| 28 | If the caller could identify himself either by an ID number or a codeword his call would be transferred to the relevant extension . |
| 29 | ‘ At the time I could see myself eventually in some sort of consultancy capacity . ’ |
| 30 | This was a Hibs side , too , with no need to fear relegation and every incentive to probe for damage done by Rangers ' injury crisis while seeing if they could move themselves closer to a place in Europe . |