Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In verse and prose he was hell-bent on facing himself when things were out of joint ; the scalpel-probe is counterbalanced by the unlearned , incurious manner in which he found deepest ease and joy out of doors — a way of healing he had discovered early in life , although he did not consider himself a naturalist . |
| 2 | Parr did not consider himself a jealous man , in any way . |
| 3 | By authorising force , the UN did not get itself a say in the running of the war . |
| 4 | Do not give yourself a nervous breakdown trying to prepare and cook three courses on the day perfectly and on time . |
| 5 | The present churches are right to be concerned that many do not give themselves the opportunity to grow in any faith because apathy and false gods have moved into the vacuum that exists instead of a soul . |
| 6 | Wonder we did n't do ourselves an injury , he was that much of an industrial hazard . ’ |
| 7 | Needless to say , I did n't buy the memory expansion and did n't give myself a Christmas present . |
| 8 | Funny he did n't give himself a new name , but maybe he felt there was no reason why he should . |
| 9 | ‘ You can see that he did n't give himself the time to finish it . |
| 10 | The really astonishing thing was that Walter Schellenberg did n't consider himself a Nazi , looked on the Third Reich as a sorry charade , its main protagonists actors of a very low order indeed . |
| 11 | Do n't do yourself a damage . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ How I 'm thirty-eight and that if I do n't find myself a wife soon she 'll be too old to enjoy her grandchildren . ’ |
| 13 | I do n't claim to be an expert and I certainly do n't consider myself a clever clogs . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't consider myself an idiot and anyone who says I am does n't know what they 're talking about . |
| 15 | ‘ The reason a lot of women and men argue without hearing each other is that many women lack the bottom harmonics in their voices , while men do n't allow themselves the upper harmonics . |
| 16 | " But why should we endure the hell of life in the colonies , mon vieux , if we do n't enjoy ourselves a little and try to put something by for our old age at the same time , heh ? " |
| 17 | The Manpower Services Commission 's YTS , launched in 1983 , is an official initiative on a very large scale , aimed at mitigating the crisis in vocational training by provision of a ‘ permanent bridge between school and work ’ for any young person who on leaving school does not find herself/himself a job or entry to full-time education . |
| 18 | He appears to equate the two functions broadly , but does not call himself a batteur de mesure . |
| 19 | Other women in the narrative may not be friends , but are always constructed as rivals for male attention : ‘ She does not consider herself a beauty and this element is used to play off against the beauty of the other woman ( women ) … . ’ |
| 20 | He does n't call himself a clerk though . |
| 21 | Naîve as it may sound , Morrissey 's ideals ( which ran opposite to the ‘ If he does n't get himself a missus soon he 'll be left on the shelf … or he 's a pooftah … ’ mentality ) attracted many young admirers . |