Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doug Cantwell , chairman of West Wiltshire Conservatives , said yesterday : ‘ We have to do our best to pull ourselves out of this recession and tighten our belts . |
| 2 | In a radio broadcast earlier this week , Mr Shevardnadze echoed the public mood in most areas of the country expressing optimism that Georgia was now starting to pull itself out of political and economic crisis . |
| 3 | The North of England has the capacity to pull itself out of such a mire , and surely wants the chance to exert its muscle to do so . |
| 4 | You 've got to shake yourself out of this dream . ’ |
| 5 | Yet to set ourselves up in such a manner contradicts our cherished notion of being part of the community . ’ |
| 6 | Where there is no further land for settlement and for people to set themselves up as independent farmers or pastoralists , there is an added reason for a land-controlling class to emerge , firstly because land hunger tends to differentiate a peasantry and secondly there is no alternative for those without enough land but to work for others . |
| 7 | This time , alas , there is little to cheer and they need to pick themselves up for this Saturday 's basement battle against Chester . |
| 8 | And McCall , the driving force in Rangers ' 2–1 European Cup win at Elland Road , said : ‘ Leeds have great character and ability and I hope they go on to do well this season , but it will be difficult for them to pick themselves up from this . |
| 9 | So it was off to the department stores of central London with a LASMO cheque to kit himself out with warm and waterproof clothes as a matter of some urgency . |
| 10 | The West Indies captain was applauded all the way to the wicket , then seemed to play himself back into some sort of form . |
| 11 | Their tasks included collecting taxes and when necessary producing labourers for public works on dams , canals or bridges ; and enlisting the required numbers of men for the army who lacked the money to buy themselves out of national service . |
| 12 | The 34-year-old former Liverpool and Blackburn star has been unable to fix himself up with another club since the summer , but the Robins ' boss is lining him up for a reserve game against Walsall next week . |
| 13 | BUILDER Jim Gladden got his wish yesterday and appeared in the dock — after trying to give himself up for TWO years . |
| 14 | And MPs will be asked to vote themselves out of any increase on their £30,854-a-year salaries . |
| 15 | They have used them already to build communal tents , to extrude life-lines guiding them over plants , or ropes to let themselves down from one twig to another . |
| 16 | People protect their own territories and are reluctant to put themselves out for other departments striving hard to provide a good service . |
| 17 | There is no need to weigh yourself down with excessive amounts of toiletries unless you are going to a remote area without either chemists or supermarkets . |
| 18 | With one foot on the platform and the other hovering over the stairwell , I had to draw myself in with real concentration at every stop when the driver came round to unjam the ‘ automatic ’ door . |
| 19 | In October 1945 Sir Orme Sargent , soon to serve as permanent under-secretary in the Foreign Office , wrote of the awful threat posed by the " almighty dollar " and of Britain 's duty , in company with France , to build herself up against both the superpowers . |
| 20 | We would generally feel that the welfare of people who need to knock themselves out with some kind of drug and need to spend a large part of their lives thus self-narcotised is less good than that of people who do not need to . |
| 21 | Q ) I was only half watching Question of Sport last night ( trying to psyche myself up for Wild Palms — you need your brain on full alert to make head or tail of it ) , but was that Bremner scoring against Celtic in the EC Semi ? |
| 22 | Farther south , in Fiordland , it is possible to fly yourself in to that spectacular airfield I already mentioned , at Milford Haven , but to fly in as pilot in command you must first be cleared by an instructor . |
| 23 | I tried to knock myself out with some cider I 'd bought , then I swallowed a bottle of weedkiller and started to walk towards the lake . |
| 24 | We have to harden ourselves up for this . |
| 25 | Foreign lawyers will still be able to practise as such on their own within the UK without registering but solicitors employed by them will not be able to hold themselves out as such to clients of the business . |
| 26 | Infuriated by the glint of triumph in his deep blue eyes , she managed to get herself back under some sort of control , though the rivers he 'd sent surging through her body with his kisses were far from still . |
| 27 | But she was n't , and she had to get herself back to normal . |
| 28 | According to Jenny Cousins , a psychologist and practising psychotherapist , teaching people to think themselves out of negative and erroneous beliefs about themselves is a standard psycho- therapeutic practice . |
| 29 | But you , you 're right that if we stick to somewhere between six hundred and seven hundred as , as a erm even a basic kind of subsistence I E you 've just got enough in just , you , you 're just not using enough food to get yourself up to two hundred , two thousand calories a day at that rate you were still being taxed on , a at a rate of almost twenty percent of your , of your income . |
| 30 | Sometimes you have to listen to some really weird things to get yourself out of that rut . |