Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
| 2 | For centuries , man has thought of himself as the most highly evolved form of life on earth , using his five senses to build up a composite and highly complex picture of the world around him . |
| 3 | One slight problem that Cognos has created for itself with Unix in Europe is its failure to recognise those lucrative government markets where the national champion is often the favourite — to date Cognos has declined to serve the ICL Plc , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA and Siemens AG environments . |
| 4 | Bob is advising Clinton how to cope when he leaves Stoke Mandeville in a couple of months time and has to fend for himself in his own home : |
| 5 | ‘ I have had to think about myself as an artist much more clearly through being in an alien environment , ’ says Tessa Waite , working in what she describes as ‘ a Victorian asylum in the middle of nowhere . |
| 6 | So you 'll have to go in yourself with them for the interview . " |
| 7 | Mary-Claude 's pregnancy had been troublesome from the start , even without the stress of a month 's separation and having to cope by herself with the move back from Cyprus , and Coleman was exhausted from a gruelling month of detailed debriefings by a stream of DIA officers and analysts at an assortment of Ramada Inns in the Baltimore/Washington area . |
| 8 | Country people may well have to look to themselves in the future , and to the skills of men like Dave Dunn . |
| 9 | Well you may have , you may have to look after yourself in fact . |
| 10 | While many of the 200 young mothers , grandmothers , shoppers and office workers who drifted into the Women 's Education Day might never have thought of themselves in this light , they probably identified immediately with the cartoon on the fact sheet : ‘ I am not just a housewife , I am an accountant , vet , nurse , negotiator , teacher , cook , red coat , driver … ‘ . |
| 11 | Karol Wojtyla was not a ‘ liberal ’ in any Western sense , though he too may briefly have thought of himself in such terms in student days . |
| 12 | Drug companies will have to start regarding themselves as suppliers of health rather than just medicines , and ‘ In the extreme case , companies could possibly start to provide general health counselling ’ to accompany the use of their products . |
| 13 | I no longer believed them or believed in them , having to believe in myself as a matter of survival . |
| 14 | I think he must have struck into himself with his hind foot just there . " |
| 15 | On Sept. 6 the military authorities in Myanma arrested two high-ranking members of the opposition National League for Democracy ( NLD ) , acting chair Kyi Maung and Chit Khaing , on charges of " passing state evidence that they should have kept to themselves to an unconcerned person " . |
| 16 | At the St Pierre Park it is estimated that the oven system will have paid for itself inside 18 months . |
| 17 | In terms of cost effectiveness , a single Ventura/VT600 installation applied to Classical Music should have paid for itself in eight months — costed against the savings in typesetting . |
| 18 | In 1899 he was a guest at the Wesleyan Methodist Conference and caused the normally sombre gathering to explode in laughter : the speaker before him had referred to himself as ‘ a humble Presbyterian ’ . |
| 19 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
| 20 | Jezrael felt immense , immortal , swelled by the rage at herself that grew when she realized the deaths she had diverted from herself to her friends , to Company enemies . |
| 21 | A hollow-eyed Maltote had taken a strangely exhausted Ranulf off to their own lodgings so the clerk and his wife had dined by themselves in the small hall below and spent the rest of the time here in their bedchamber . |
| 22 | because the rules that we 've made for ourselves in maths , er we will , we 're about to break those . |
| 23 | IN fact planning any route that you 've made up yourself across wild land is fun , unless you 're doing so to escape from someone who is trying to kill you or lock you up . |
| 24 | She ran , ran from the memory of her own besottedness with this man , painfully aware what a fool she had made of herself before him , how she had opened her heart to him . |
| 25 | To be branded an unfeeling brute reinforced the image he had made for himself of a man who was dog-rough , ‘ a foul beast ’ , unfit for human company , not to be tolerated in civilised drawing rooms . |
| 26 | What it does show , is just how much of a theoretical problem Engels had made for himself in creating this highly problematical gens stage of history where there were no divisions of any kind . |
| 27 | In his latter years he created an elaborate water garden at the cottage ornée he had built for himself on the outskirts of Plymouth , and was wont to drive round the streets of the town in a gig disguised as a Roman war chariot , looking , in Wightwick 's words ‘ ( as far as his true English face and costume allowed ) like Ictinus of the Parthenon , ‘ out for a lark ’ . ’ |
| 28 | In the summer of 1939 Boulestin left as usual to spend his holidays in the house he had built for himself in the Landes . |
| 29 | In 1829–30 , like his father before him , he served as mayor of Kendal , and in addition to the house he had built for himself in the town ( c .1823 ) he had a country property in Lindale , Lancashire , which he inherited from his father , and he later built an occasional residence in nearby Grange-over-Sands . |
| 30 | I feared that without him I would batten down the hatches of the physical part of me and crawl back inside the shell which I had built around myself in the three years before he blew through my life . |