Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , we tend to see the learning of a foreign language as mastering a skill , thereby perhaps doing ourselves a disservice . |
| 2 | I believe that the maintained grammar school offers the best hope at present of making accessible to a larger population than ever before the best of the qualities and habits of which it somewhat accidentally finds itself the custodian : respect for learning , the encouragement of deep and strenuous thought , a regard for style , and the tacit assumption of contracts of mutual responsibility between individuals and between an individual and his society . |
| 3 | ‘ Just enough to buy myself a wagon , lumpkin . |
| 4 | Swap too soon and the program takes over and performs some miracle that pulls the ass of the Despot you just abandoned out of the fire and next thing you know the secret police are banging down the doors and hauling you and your family off into the night and oblivion ; the machine thereupon promptly declares itself the winner and it 's back to that fucking cave again . |
| 5 | He was just about to pour himself a drink when the phone rang , |
| 6 | Less than forty hectic hours later , Mrs Thatcher , who had once proudly proclaimed herself a ‘ lady not for turning ’ , had made the most dramatic U-turn of her whole political career . |
| 7 | It is in this rarefied atmosphere that IBM may find the key to once again making itself the preferred partner of big business — a role that it has not recently played to sufficiently enthusiastic reviews . |
| 8 | The Supreme Soviet also officially renamed itself the Moldavian Parliament . |
| 9 | The once vivacious teenager now rarely allows herself a smile , and her lively personality has become buried by the strain of living up to everyone 's expectations . |
| 10 | ‘ But they are cowards at heart and hang back until they are sure they are safe , even then leaving themselves a route for escape . |
| 11 | Basically , that means maintaining quality work , but easing down to give my body time to recover and possibly even occasionally allowing myself the luxury of collapsing on the settee , falling asleep and dreaming of all those races I wish I could still win . |
| 12 | A friend told me recently that she no longer called herself a Christian . |
| 13 | ‘ T is so no more ’ , that is , he can no longer consider himself the same person — he has become , at last , a human being ( line 36 ) , not a dreaming poet , and he can not go back to the earlier state . |
| 14 | A player who has thrived on goals throughout his career , suddenly no longer finds himself a regular name on the scoresheet . |
| 15 | Such as it was , it constituted a public place , and he could no longer guarantee himself the seclusion and privacy of the deserted churchyard . |
| 16 | And , to put an end to the conversation , he walked firmly off to pour himself a cup of coffee . |
| 17 | It flattered his vanity to think himself in love with me ; it also gave him , I believe , some unadmitted pleasure constantly to long for my flesh and yet always to forbid himself the attaining of it : to deny himself was just as exciting as to indulge himself . |
| 18 | A magazine which printed any of Mo Anthoine 's or Don Whillans ' more pointed deflations could now all too easily find itself the object of a libel writ . |
| 19 | Besides the fact that he was a Jew , he never even considered himself a dissident . |
| 20 | Unlike Schüssler Fiorenza , Trible never explicitly names herself a Christian feminist . |