Example sentences of "you [vb base] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comment : Very useful device when you want to ingratiate yourself with another person who is trying hard to play high status . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | ‘ Yeah , if you want to keep yourself to yourself that 's no problem , ’ Pete , the man of about my age , said . |
| 6 | But it comes down to how openly you want to express yourself as a Muslim . |
| 7 | If you 're ill , off work , what 's the last thing you want to worry yourself with . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You begin to hate yourself for what you 're doing . |
| 10 | I see cos you like to keep yourself to yourself do n't you Joyce ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I would suggest that you think a bit more carefully before you decide to commit yourself to another long-term relationship . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | For some of it you try to put yourself in somebody else 's shoes and write a story about that . |
| 15 | ‘ You try to defend yourself with words , but they are empty , meaningless , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Oh , just you try forcing yourself on me again and your world will explode . |
| 17 | You start to see yourself in terms of an application form . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | If you do find yourself on top of a difficult peak late on a hot day , a final option to wait until sundown before tackling the descent . |
| 24 | If you do find yourself in the same position , however , please seek professional help from a member of the Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors without delay , as well as implementing the suggestions outlined here . |
| 25 | But , if you do find yourself in the situation of describing an area of life you are unfamiliar with , remember the man with the magnum of champagne and avoid , as far as you possibly can , using any fact , however trivial , however seductive , that you have no warrant for in someone else 's words or pictures . |
| 26 | If you do find yourself in this position , with a few seconds left to the gun , consider reaching across them so that you can get clear air . |
| 27 | and after you 've gorged yourself on all the fun and nightlife that Benitses has to offer , you can turn in for the night and leave it all behind . |
| 28 | You 've landed yourself with a man who 's been wise to women 's performances since the age of fourteen . |
| 29 | Room 's full of Adonises and you 've matched yourself with this rogue . |
| 30 | You 've involved yourself in lots of other projects between ‘ Brothers ’ and ‘ On Every Street ’ ; was this a deliberate decision ? |