Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bird symbolising the yearning for freedom man has , his desire to pull himself up above and beyond the limits and discomforts of his own restricted world . |
| 2 | Well , I 'd just been paid , so there was no problems about me having money to score , so I think I 'd just set me mind that I wanted to sort meself out once and for good . |
| 3 | This requires him to immerse himself as thoroughly as he can in the life of the community he is trying to understand . |
| 4 | Such anger and defensiveness is commonplace and understandable because our society is accustomed to the stereotype pictures of alcoholism and drug or other addictions as disorders of weak-willed and immoral people who need to be taught firm lessons on how to behave themselves properly rather than as ill people who need to be helped to become well . |
| 5 | Try to assert yourself too quickly and you 'll end up making a counter-productive move . |
| 6 | In any case , choral singers tend to apply themselves more strongly when divided parts create in them a sense of greater responsibility and individuality . |
| 7 | This style allowed other-worldly figures to express themselves more naturally than in classical ballet where technical precision and command over conventional gesture were necessary . |
| 8 | Police have now appealed to Hanger to give himself up peacefully but armed police are on standby . |
| 9 | Such a plan allows schools to manage themselves more democratically and to keep the curriculum as the major focus . |
| 10 | In such emergency situations your dog will be frightened anyway , and you will need to protect yourself as far as possible against being bitten . |
| 11 | The breakthrough will come when all these players in the tourism game begin to market themselves not just as providing value for money , but value for the environment . |
| 12 | Emphasis is placed on the processes by which medical practitioners attempted to further themselves both professionally and socially , through intra-professional activities and interaction with local ‘ elite groups . |
| 13 | Anxious to lead their lives in accordance with a strict and literal interpretation of predestination , experimental Calvinists sought to distance themselves both religiously and socially from the reprobate or ungodly . |
| 14 | They use delinquent criteria in order to distance themselves as far as possible from conventional ones , and hence insulate themselves from a sense of failure . |
| 15 | Danquah 's evidence was somewhat defensive , even apologetic : Nkrumah felt that their intention was to distance themselves as far as possible from his pronouncements and actions . |
| 16 | He had to thresh with his arms to get himself upright again and , it seemed to Marie , all he had done was drive himself even further down into the mud . |
| 17 | Fortunately you have a chancre which has appeared soon , and this means that the system has an opportunity to right itself as far as it can , having got rid of some of the trouble . |
| 18 | She was still striving to get herself back together when , to her astonishment , ignoring the file she had placed on his desk , ‘ Vanity being what it is , ’ he commented , ‘ I thought contact lenses were all the go now ? ’ |
| 19 | Apparently , the girl was an attractive woman and she no doubt knew how to present herself as temptingly as possible , They exchanged what Miller describes as ‘ the usual preliminaries ’ about money and walked on together up the by now rapidly dusking street . |
| 20 | I have got to alter myself so completely that at the end I should hardly be recognisable as the same person . |
| 21 | They have to promote themselves now just as they 've got to get bums on seats as they say . |
| 22 | There was no trace of his usual cheekiness , either because he was seriously worried about his son or simply because he had no need to defend himself up here where he was in his element and they were out of theirs . |
| 23 | They do not like by-elections , for in them a candidate of their own party may , win or lose , find the opportunity to display himself so advantageously as to become in the next general election a fearsome competitor . |
| 24 | Indeed , Dorinda now advises other women to recognize that beauty can not be made to last , and Leapor closes the poem urging women to improve themselves spiritually so that old age will be satisfying : |
| 25 | In which case , what better , what other remedy than to push yourself as hard as you could towards all extremes to feel alive , but keep the centre inviolate ? |
| 26 | On 4 July they entered London , although the authorities there were able to reassert themselves more rapidly than in 1381 . |
| 27 | When I decided to cut myself off totally and become an actor , it started to get easier . |
| 28 | I want to look different , to please myself as far as I 'm able . ’ |
| 29 | And the key therefore to writing scenes of action is to limit yourself as strictly as you can to describing happenings . |
| 30 | I have a fancy to show myself as far as Newport and Cardiff , while they lose themselves in the mountains of Maelienydd and Brecon . ’ |