Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pn reflx] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were well aware that before the English visit , and in an attempt to give himself some room for manoeuvre , Napoleon III had wooed the Tsar . |
| 2 | His suggestion that his intervention persuaded the Khmers Rouges not to disrupt the voting may be an attempt to give himself some importance . |
| 3 | Very slowly the boy cut himself another slice and began to eat it . |
| 4 | You oughtta get yourselves some backbone . |
| 5 | The military , economic and political elites have different reasons for existence and different goals , yet they all share one common goal — the desire to give themselves mutual wealth , prestige and power . |
| 6 | Other attacks included : ( i ) an explosion at the offices of the French Banque Nationale de Paris in Athens on March 10 , 1989 , which a group calling itself Revolutionary Solidarity claimed was in support of the French urban guerrilla organization Action Directe ; ( ii ) a bomb attack on April 10 on a judge 's apartment in Athens for which the May 1 Revolutionary Organization claimed responsibility and threatened to attack any judge supporting the extradition to the USA of Muhammad Rashid [ see p. 36667 ] ; ( iii ) a bomb attack on the Justice Ministry on June 1 and on three government offices in Athens and Piraeus on June 13 for which the Revolutionary Popular Struggle ( ELA ) claimed responsibility ; ( iv ) car-bomb attacks on three US vehicles near Athens on Oct. 22 in which four Greeks were slightly injured and for which ELA claimed responsibility ; ( v ) a car-bomb attack on March 19 , 1990 , which injured a former senior British Petroleum executive ; and ( vi ) attacks on 12 cars belonging to East European and Arab diplomats on March 27 , for which an organization called Social Resistance claimed responsibility on behalf of the " vested rights of Third-World countries " . |
| 7 | Rather than reinventing the ‘ virtual classroom ’ , may I suggest the staff at Teesside Poly could have contacted CECOMM and availed themselves of our tutor-moderated training programme , and in the process saved themselves considerable time and angst . |
| 8 | SPACE SUCCESS : St Simon 's School at Hazel Grove launched their ‘ Space Venture ’ to raise money to give themselves more space in the school — a new mobile classroom . |
| 9 | Sam Kettle was n't the only person to hate himself that morning . |
| 10 | It 's also a good idea to back off three to five per cent every second or third week to give yourself more rest and sufficient recovery . |
| 11 | But first you 'll have to deal with this man and woman to satisfy yourself one way or the other about them . |
| 12 | The father shot himself one afternoon after having shot his wife . |
| 13 | And what kind of whore offered herself that way ? |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a very patriarchal family , ’ Zoë says , ‘ the family define itself as the men , with the women and children just surrounding them — so when one man gets himself another woman , it does n't change things . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't think I scare easily , but I sure as hell scared myself that weekend . |
| 16 | The opposite applies if you feel yourself falling in backwards — pull in the back hand to give yourself more power . |
| 17 | But there 's never been the reason to allow myself that luxury . |
| 18 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 19 | The locomotive is the brainchild of a company calling itself American Coal Enterprises ( ACE ) . |
| 20 | He will see that a number of general practitioner practices have become fundholders , that a local NHS trust has already reduced waiting lists by 1,200 in the last year , and that a district authority is about to merge with a neighbour to give itself more clout . |
| 21 | Most librarians prefer to divide orders amongst a number of booksellers in order to give themselves greater flexibility and a degree of control over the standards of service , and also to make use of the specializations of different dealers . |
| 22 | One mother surprised herself one morning when she awoke early to hear her two children whispering downstairs in the kitchen . |
| 23 | I would need another 40 yards off the tee to give myself any sort of chance . |