Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did he much approve of subjecting himself to the nervous exhaustion of house parties as other peoples ' guest . |
| 2 | It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels . |
| 3 | But if I were Ben Hogan , and a Bob Hamilton or Willie Goggin chipped in to beat me in The Masters , a Walter Burkemo holed a sand shot to swipe the PGA , a raw rookie — pick one — holed a 7-iron to beat me somewhere in Florida and then the like of a Bud Holscher or a Shelley Mayfield holed yet another sand shot to steal yet another victory , then I 'd not only be scouring the Fort Worth Yellow Pages looking for the nearest shrink , I might even think of tossing myself under a freight train in the nearest marshalling yard . |
| 4 | And all the undertakings we might speak of reduce themselves to a single one , that of making history . |
| 5 | Gail , who is also looking forward to the birth of her first baby in November , said : ‘ We have just come back from two wet weeks in Bournemouth and said we could do with spoiling ourselves with a stay in a luxury hotel then I was told I had won — it 's amazing. , ’ |
| 6 | Though Larry does not ultimately succeed in reintegrating himself into the world , his efforts to come to terms with the consequences of his experience in the death world of his hallucination indicate a potential mode of interpersonal relation that would provide the basis for a more ‘ sane ’ existence . |
| 7 | Let us finish by reminding ourselves of the traditional skills and purposes of historians . |
| 8 | As Russia 's only properly elected leader ever , he should hesitate before putting himself outside the law . |
| 9 | The intuitive explanation for the negative slope of the aggregate demand curve is that a higher price implies , ceteris paribus , a lower real quantity of money in the economy since the real quantity of money is defined to be the nominal quantity of money , M , divided by the general level of prices , P 1 that is M÷P , One way in which people may respond to finding themselves with less real money than they had before is by selling off holdings of bonds to rebuild their holdings of money . |
| 10 | One way people might respond to finding themselves with more real money than they want would be to use their excess holdings of money to buy bonds . |
| 11 | I would n't dream of foisting myself on you . |
| 12 | I , I , I am certainly not that man , I would , I would not dream of offering myself for such a ghastly post |
| 13 | Until you know someone , you should beware of putting yourself into a position where you may be trapped , pestered , or embarrassed . |
| 14 | He might start by transferring himself from the wheelchair across onto a seat in the bath , and washing himself sitting up . |
| 15 | This is serious suggestions , often children can learn from seeing themselves as others see them . |