Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong .
2 ‘ They need to find themselves a decent bloke , ’ said William 's nan once , presumably meaning four decent blokes as she was not a great advocate of polygamy .
3 To find myself a Good Career to Travel and
4 The next morning I woke up , and was relieved to find myself a normal man again …
5 And I do n't bother to find myself a reflective surface wherein to follow them-although no doubt the gleam in Rainbow 's eye , or the slick of moisture on Anya 's parted lips , would do at a pinch .
6 I wanted to find myself a quiet corner and curl up in it .
7 But I notice , little madam , you were pleased enough to find yourself a good Catholic … . ’
8 ‘ Maybe the party will be able to get some money out of it and we will be able to prostitute ourselves a little bit more .
9 He dropped the poker and went to pour himself a much-needed drink .
10 Nevertheless , the local historian will find it useful to think of his chosen parish or neighbourhood in terms of broad categories such as ‘ open-field arable ’ or ‘ wood-pasture ’ or ‘ fenland edge ’ and to set himself the fundamental task of understanding how people adapted themselves to their physical environment .
11 Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week
12 The prospect of1993 and the abolition of customs controls between EC countries has spurred the Italian State to set itself the awe-inspiring task of cataloguing a further two million items of its national heritage within two years in execution of its duty to ‘ care for Italy 's landscape , history and cultural heritage ’ ( to quote the Constitution ) .
13 A good way of familiarising yourself with the principle of intervallic interchange is to set yourself the following task , both on and away from your guitar .
14 Try to allocate yourself a set time each day when you will practise your exercises .
15 If you were to serve yourself an average helping of cabbage , though , it would usually weigh at least two ounces if you were eating it raw as part of a portion of coleslaw , for example , or four ounces if you were serving boiled cabbage .
16 Sharpe , despite the Prince 's frequent insistence , had yet to buy himself a Dutch uniform .
17 What 's New News & New Products This month , Fender forbid G&L from mentioning Leo 's name , new bits and pieces from Warwick , SWR , Carlsbro and Fishman , the return of John Birch and some news on how to win yourself a year-long guitar scholarship …
18 When you start to discover this one actually does travel through walls , the sound of it does actually does travel through walls , but as I say , it 's only a temporary measure to buy yourself a little bit of time she says .
19 ‘ Well , to buy yourself a little house , perhaps .
20 We need to challenge ourselves , to move ourselves on , but we need to give ourselves a safe framework in which to do so .
21 But he was already a fallen idol in Patricia 's eyes , all because he had not been able to deny himself a sentimental gesture before leaving .
22 It seemed — the least he could do — to deny himself the dramatic gesture , to humiliate himself .
23 And John meantime seeks always to dismiss me as incompetent and neurotic ( probably , as people wiser than me , such as his own lawyer , say , he does this to suit his own ends and to give himself a good press and to live within his own fantasies and eccentricities . )
24 Damon Hill produced the performance he had dreamed of to give himself a great chance of finishing on the victory podium at the Brazilian Grand Prix .
25 On March 11 it voted to proclaim itself a sovereign body whose decisions would be binding and not subject to government authority .
26 No gender differences were in fact detected , but the assessment system was rendered less liable to such biases staff were sensitized to their existence and nature and the course was able to give itself a clean bill of health without any special data collection effort being required .
27 Rainbow gets the show back on the road , and tries to give herself a little holiday from auntly interventions by searching the radio bands for a local traffic report .
28 Marguerite was sleeping and Jenna crept downstairs in the silent house and made her way to the kitchen to fix herself a milky drink .
29 ‘ I 'd only intended to fix myself a light snack and get an early night .
30 All the right ingredients seem to be there : so it 's easy enough to persuade yourself the sharp steering , smooth increase in turbo power in the mid-range , quick-shifting gear change and body-hugging seats imply something of a breakthrough by Detroit .
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