Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [subord] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baling out over Malta had now become a somewhat risky business , as Doug Whitney recalls : ‘ They ( the Maltese ) were so bitter about the bombing that they inclined to treat anyone baling out as an enemy and this became so bad we all carried revolvers to protect ourselves until we could convince them otherwise . |
| 2 | We have to learn to value ourselves before we can expect other people to like us . |
| 3 | In 1843 , Marx — writing on the Jewish question — argued that ‘ we must emancipate ourselves before we can emancipate others ’ . |
| 4 | We do not know ourselves when we shall leave . |
| 5 | Susan wished Daine would show himself so they could struggle mind to mind and settle this thing . |
| 6 | Mr Cocksedge was treated in hospital for burns to his hands and face , but he later discharged himself so he could help clear up . |
| 7 | He had not been able to deal so skilfully with his own wife , however , that relationship needing more of himself than he could spare from the animals , and she had left him many years ago . |
| 8 | PAMELA : That poor gentleman has a great deal to mend in himself before he can begin such a practice in his family . |
| 9 | If an explosion occurs owing to the escape of gas , it does not seem to have been suggested that the defences of common benefit or consent of the plaintiff would be available to the defendants , possibly because the plaintiff has no choice as to the source of his supply of gas , whereas in other cases he can decide for himself whether he will accept the arrangement offered to him by his landlord . |
| 10 | Aged 34 , Mr Gates is bright , opinionated , decisive and every bit as sure of himself as one would expect from a man who was a billionaire by the age of 30 . |
| 11 | It 's not the severity that worries him but his inability to universalize the verdict and therefore take it to himself as he can take ‘ Vous l'avez voulu , Georges Dandin , ’ the thing of Molière 's Dostoevsky liked to quote . |
| 12 | Nicholas believed that ‘ No man can so much advance his own good and happiness in anything as endeavouring all that in him lies the good and welfare of others ; and who doth that daily doth perform the greatest good to himself as he can desire or wish for . ’ |
| 13 | As with all young people she had to make something of herself before she could offer anything to anyone else . |
| 14 | She could still feel fitzAlan 's eyes on her and flushed slightly , steeling herself before she could look at him again , and fully expecting a remark that was sure to be unpleasant at best . |
| 15 | ‘ If I cry , he gets so angry that I ca n't bear it ’ , said another , ‘ and I go away and find somewhere by myself where I can go on crying ’ . |
| 16 | And I make a place for myself where I can watch them both out of the corner of my eye while I read . |
| 17 | Only by pushing the boundaries of moral judgment to their extremes are you going to get rid of sexism , racism , sizism and classism ( along with all the other buzz-words that are used by pompous morons to build walls around themselves so they can validify their own judgments of other people ) . |
| 18 | We offer some therapies to help them regain confidence in themselves so they can express and release some of those tensions which are causing them to behave irrationally . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You know what I think about this ‘ protected species ’ business , ’ he said , reshuffling the logs , ‘ I think they 're protecting all the game for themselves so they can set up a hunter 's paradise for the rich — for foreigners and high-ranking government officials . |
| 20 | I think I 'll make a shopping list today otherwise I 'll get to Colchester and I wo n't remember what I want tomorrow , you know and I 'll be kicking myself cos I 'll forget |
| 21 | And I 'm going to suggest it 's in your interest to learn how the media operate , and it 's in your interest to cultivate the media , and it 's in your interest to actually persuade the media to do a lot of the work which you would normally do for yourselves if I could put it that way . |
| 22 | But ask yourself if you would have tested you water had it not gone green ? |
| 23 | I would qualify this by suggesting that you ask yourself if you could bear to be knitting the same garment twenty years hence . |
| 24 | Should be easy , he decided , you broke the eggs , bashed them around with a fork , not spilling them over yourself if you could help it , then put them in the frying-pan . |
| 25 | Yeah well you see you can make quite a few nice little pounds for yourself if you can say to your friends I can undercut I wo n't chat while you get across here if you can say to your friends I can do it cheaper than the |
| 26 | Then I did ask myself if we would see this place again ; and when Jaffa started to disappear to our starboard , I remember I said to myself : ‘ If this ship could turn round now , I would return to Jaffa . ’ |
| 27 | Parasites are not accustomed to exerting themselves if they can coerce a stand-in . |
| 28 | The British did not want to act themselves if they could avoid it . |
| 29 | Ron said that I should not go on to the track and kill myself because I might pull a hamstring . |
| 30 | With a moral question , you ask yourself whether you can go on living as yourself if you do such and such a thing . |