Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought if we could get their nature thing together with your Alps thing , we might both do ourselves a bit of good . |
| 6 | In many ways , self-defence is like family planning : if you take precautions , you 'll often save yourself a lot of trouble . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 'd just get myself a fine eejit of a man to keep me in barley sugar all day . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | I want a plump wife and a happy one , otherwise we shall never get ourselves a family . " |
| 14 | Over the next few weeks it will slowly grow itself a new set of entrails . |
| 15 | I think they eat more if they can just help themselves a bit at a time when they want it . |
| 16 | An Ellyrian mounted on a black horse can often find himself a prime target for Dark Elf attacks |
| 17 | You can often save yourself a lot of money by tackling the simpler problems yourself . |
| 18 | INTENDING passengers and holidays visitors to Doniford Beach Halt , near Watchet , on the West Somerset Railway , can now hail themselves a train once again after the public reopening of the station in mid-July , writes DICK WOOD . |
| 19 | So , in summary , a university is still a university , a poly can now call itself a university and award its own degrees , and colleges of higher education may , in some instances , stay as colleges , but issue university degrees . |
| 20 | By that reckoning I can certainly count myself a ‘ real climber ’ . |