Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I asked myself the same question , ’ said Dr. Ray . |
| 2 | I found myself the only ‘ other ’ . |
| 3 | Nine years have passed since my divorce and I tell myself the half-forgotten betrayals and deceits are old news . |
| 4 | I find myself the only thing is to change the subject . |
| 5 | Late that night I ask myself the age-old question . |
| 6 | It is the most beautiful thing you will ever wear — until I surpass myself the next time ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It is beautiful , ’ she said coyly , ‘ it is the most beautiful dress I will ever wear , until I surpass myself the next time . ’ |
| 8 | do you , do , do you have a gun ? , button one for yes and button two for no well I 'm not going to ask you to identify yourselves the three of you |
| 9 | If you can aim squarely , hold the club correctly and form a good stance , then you give yourself the best chance to strike the ball correctly . |
| 10 | That 's right trying to find work these days can be demanding and extremely frustrating so you want to make sure that you give yourself the best chance of getting a job and one way to help is to do a good application form and know how to handle yourself in an interview . |
| 11 | And do you allow yourself the occasional binge ? |
| 12 | Suddenly we found ourselves the proud owners of three switchboards , two lines , thirteen phones and a miraculous fax ( ‘ Oooh , you must have to roll them up ever so small ’ ) machine . |
| 13 | ‘ We set ourselves the 30,000 target for our 21st birthday — March 1992 , ’ John said . |
| 14 | It is a long way from the post-punk Big Black noise of old that first did the rounds of Ireland , which they confirm themselves the following day when , nursing Alps-sized hangovers , the threesome spill out stories of their past as we head through New York to the photo-shoot in the Bronx . |
| 15 | They set themselves the difficult task of disentangling this cosmic dust from the earthly sort . |
| 16 | They called themselves the Red Lions , after the name of the pub where they first met in Birmingham in 1839 . |
| 17 | In 1686 he became a London alderman , sitting for Broad Street ; but he discharged himself the following year , probably in anticipation of the purging of Anglicans from the bench . |
| 18 | The 499-member Congress held its constituent session on March 11-12 , when it declared itself the constitutional representative of the Estonian people and passed resolutions calling for restoration of Estonia 's independent statehood and the withdrawal of Soviet troops stationed in the republic . |
| 19 | ‘ The omnipotence of the House of Commons , ’ he wrote , ‘ is revolution itself and death to the true old English constitution ’ — of which he fancied himself the best judge . |
| 20 | It called itself the European Parliamentary Assembly and symbolically arranged the seating of delegates by political affiliation rather than by nationality . |
| 21 | An expert can now make a final determination about the construction of documents provided he asks himself the right question . |
| 22 | He seems to be cashing in on the goodwill of those who regret the party 's ‘ new start ’ last month when it renamed itself the Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) . |
| 23 | I would tell other girls who suspect they have an exercise problem similar to mine to ask themselves the following questions : Do I take more exercise than is necessary for health and fitness ? |
| 24 | He accounted himself the unluckiest man alive . |
| 25 | By the mid-Fifties he considered himself the natural leader of world Communism . |