Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It causes no pollution , either in terms of fuel consumption or noise , yet finding yourself suddenly cowering in the shadow of a huge coloured parachute at the top of a hill where you imagined yourself to be alone , bursts the illusionary balloon of solitude and remote wilderness for me . |
| 2 | The larvae then migrate through the tissue of the mouth ( cheeks , tongue , and pharynx ) to the stomach , where they attach themselves to the stomach lining . |
| 3 | I caught up with Dr Mawhinney at Deacon 's School , a local comprehensive , where he subjected himself to 45 minutes of questioning from 60 youngsters as part of an in-school mock election . |
| 4 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 5 | To acknowledge it — as the cards insisted that she must — a portion of herself , was to recognize features which were paltry and despicable ; it forced the reluctant awareness that she was , in part at least , a smaller person than she believed herself to be . |
| 6 | There are still areas where we tend to look at the other as ‘ the resident expert ’ , or at least more expert than we consider ourself to be . |
| 7 | Although he endeared himself to Arsenal 's North bank and played impressively enough on the outskirts of the box to sustain his reputation for skilful adventure , he rarely found the net at Highbury and began to look like over-paid hype to the footballing public . |
| 8 | Lucille had left France because she loved Sharpe , whom she knew was a better man than he thought himself to be . |
| 9 | This reminded him that it was nearly time for church , so he heaved himself to his feet and went to make some more coffee , this time for Mrs Frizzell as well . |
| 10 | When Epictetus was arguing with a rich man , someone said to him : ‘ If I devote myself to philosophy , I shall not own a farm , or have riches , or own silver goblets and gold plate . ’ |
| 11 | I knew that the Cross would drag me to Cambridge if I allowed myself to be dragged , but I refused . |
| 12 | A fine fool she 'd look if she allowed herself to be swept off her feet by more of those blood-stirring kisses , then found herself dropped like a burning coal the moment Doreen stepped through the door . |
| 13 | If you push yourself to your absolute limits and suffer terribly , the chances that you will be able to motivate yourself to suffer equally in two or three days ' time are practically zilch . |
| 14 | If you committed yourself to doing every exercise in Part Two in the order given , you would miss an opportunity to ‘ listen to the whispers ’ which guide you towards what you need , right now , as a unique individual . |
| 15 | If you confine yourself to inside the room where he 's sitting very quiet and the only other |
| 16 | If you believe yourself to be simply an animal without an immortal soul but you also believe that you are capable of making moral judgements , you will need to ask yourself whether cats and mice and birds and insects are also capable of making moral judgements . |
| 17 | Also , if you consider yourself to be faster than the pathfinder board , it is worth starting early , since as you wait for him to reach you , you could be sailing that part faster than him . |
| 18 | If you consider yourself to be in any way progressive , and really want to play your part in demolishing the old legend of natural antagonism between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law , replacing it with the hope of friendship , then this is your chance . |
| 19 | It 's something for us to discuss , that 's what I 'm saying , so , so if you commit yourself to something and balls up , erm , the general manager does n't get a copy of it , and nobody else does , just you and me . |
| 20 | If you attached yourself to his particular rising star , you could shoot for the moon . ’ |
| 21 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |
| 22 | The mathematicians guarantee that all will be well provided we restrict ourselves to operators which satisfy the condition which they call being hermitean . |
| 23 | Until we talk ourselves to bed . |
| 24 | Research would be impossible if we restricted ourselves to this species . |
| 25 | But even if we restrict ourselves to the ideational or cognitive function of language ( see p 31ff ) it is necessary to distinguish three levels of organization in language . |
| 26 | If we restrict ourselves to puts and calls on a single security there are 4 simple types of investment strategy to look at : |
| 27 | If we restrict ourselves to products with serious and substantial information content , our focus in the computer software sector is largely on educational markets . |
| 28 | If we imagine ourselves to be standing outside time , looking down upon the history of the Universe as if it were a relief map , we get a different perspective . |
| 29 | If we confine ourselves to explanations couched in the vocabulary of physics or neurochemistry , then we are going to lose , or fail to formulate , a vitally important set of generalizations about human behaviour , and science will never be able to explain or predict behaviour in a satisfactory way . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , species are real things , with real discontinuities between them — at least if we confine ourselves to sexual organisms living in the same place at the same time . |