Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter what happened he would never let himself become like the brutal , foul-mouthed McEllhoney . |
| 2 | He also expressed irritation about the way Tony seemed to have let himself go in the last few months , since he had become unemployed . |
| 3 | Before taking this as a general licence for an active industrial policy to manage change , governments must ask why the market is not doing a better job , and whether intervention can itself improve on the existing situation . |
| 4 | Miss Bruce 's distaste for innovation made itself manifest in the dreary proposals served up to the Conservative and Labour governments in the seventies — whenever a request for names for public duties arrived in her in-tray , the same roll-call of has-beens fell out of her out-tray . |
| 5 | One stickleback will put another to flight when it is an owner attacking an intruder , but will itself flee from the same individual when it is an intruder on the other 's territory . |
| 6 | Her blood seemed to have turned into heavy oil in her body , and something was dragging her down so ruthlessly that she let herself fall into the harsh carpet of pebbles . |
| 7 | The bedroom felt cold and as Fred sank to the bed with her still in his arms Carrie closed her eyes and tried not to let herself focus on the small round damp patch on the ceiling above the foot of the bed . |
| 8 | As they drew nearer to the damage and she could see that it was even worse than it had looked from afar , Ronni felt herself recoil at the very thought that her own brother could be responsible for such a thing . |
| 9 | Jelka looked about her , letting herself relax for the first time since she had heard of the attack on the Project , drinking in the harmony of the garden . |
| 10 | Lisa felt herself falter at the dark note in his voice . |
| 11 | Let yourself go on the giant slide for an exciting ride . |
| 12 | If , for example , a hotelier contracts for a window cleaner to clean all the outside windows of the hotel and , while undertaking this job , the person contracted falls and is injured , although the hotelier owes the window cleaner a duty of care under s. 2(1) OLA 1957 , the extent of this duty is modified by the fact that window cleaners will themselves guard against the ordinary risks of carrying out the job and thus the hotelier may not be liable for their injuries . |