Example sentences of "you [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was n't , if you cared to put yourself in my position . |
| 2 | Yeah I say you got to behave yourself to my children yeah . |
| 3 | I mean you got to get yourself in there round the back tuck yourself in all your body . |
| 4 | Comment : Very useful device when you want to ingratiate yourself with another person who is trying hard to play high status . |
| 5 | They are lovely to visit — especially when you want to feast yourself on a Dorset cream tea — but it is the rolling countryside and stunning coastline which attract the many lovers of the outdoors . |
| 6 | You want to sacrifice yourself in a bloody revolution that will have no hope of success , and you want to sacrifice hundreds , perhaps thousands of young lives with you ! |
| 7 | You want to pat yourself on your , on your back and think you know what a good boy I am , or what a good girl I am , and of course you 're doing , your superego is doing to you what your parents would 've done as , as , when you were a child , they 're rewarding you saying good boy , good girl , have n't you been good ? |
| 8 | ‘ Yeah , if you want to keep yourself to yourself that 's no problem , ’ Pete , the man of about my age , said . |
| 9 | But it comes down to how openly you want to express yourself as a Muslim . |
| 10 | If you 're ill , off work , what 's the last thing you want to worry yourself with . |
| 11 | If you want to expose yourself to someone , then do it to one of your fancy women ; you 'll do it no longer to my daughter , my daughter . |
| 12 | You 'd given yourself to the highest bidder — ’ |
| 13 | How , if at all , are you going to protect yourself against changes in the exchange rate between your currency and your customer 's currency ? |
| 14 | You begin to hate yourself for what you 're doing . |
| 15 | How would you like to see yourself in ten years ' time ? |
| 16 | I see cos you like to keep yourself to yourself do n't you Joyce ? |
| 17 | If you are out shopping , get tired , and are tempted by a cake and a cup of coffee , your overall health regime should not suffer because you decide to enjoy yourself in this way occasionally . |
| 18 | ‘ I would suggest that you think a bit more carefully before you decide to commit yourself to another long-term relationship . ’ |
| 19 | We all three had dinner together , then you went off with her to your room , where she was to stay , though how you managed to accommodate yourselves in that tiny room with its narrow bed was something I preferred not to think about . |
| 20 | ‘ First you try to kill yourself by running off into a blizzard , and now you risk life and limb because you ca n't even bring yourself to admit to me that you 've never skied in your life before . ’ |
| 21 | For some of it you try to put yourself in somebody else 's shoes and write a story about that . |
| 22 | ‘ You try to defend yourself with words , but they are empty , meaningless , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Oh , just you try forcing yourself on me again and your world will explode . |
| 24 | You start to see yourself in terms of an application form . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Once you start saving yourselves for big games and ducking out of tackles , you get into the wrong frame of mind and that is very dangerous , ’ warned Howard , who is hoping to steer his side through to the second round of the FA Cup for the first time for 17 years . |
| 26 | ‘ Once you start saving yourselves for big games and ducking out of tackles , you get into the wrong frame of mind and that is very dangerous , ’ warned Howard , who is hoping to steer his side through to the second round of the FA Cup for the first time for 17 years . |
| 27 | And you know very well that as soon as you start to launch yourself into the world of contracting by , by its very nature a contract a a automatically has loopholes in it , and the more you write in a contract the more loopholes you 've got . |
| 28 | This is very important because once you start to perceive yourself in negative terms you will probably start to act in a negative way , being quarrelsome and finally looking to food for comfort . |
| 29 | Apart from that , I have n't the least interest in whether you choose to kill yourself by falling from a great height , or crashing into something at high speed . ’ |
| 30 | A swallow to him was something you did when you ate food or you did to stop yourself from crying . |