Example sentences of "would [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I 'd absorb myself in all these things . |
| 2 | if you were buried alive , I mean , Uncle Nat when he used , when he was in , in Uncle Nat when he was out in the war , he used to come back home and he 'd only to hear a siren and he 'd throw himself on the floor |
| 3 | I ca n't name names , but the song concerns a series of people who 'd recognise themselves in there if they examined the lyrics . |
| 4 | If you 'd confine yourself to finding out what Corporal Blagg knows , we 'd be very grateful . ’ |
| 5 | I reasoned like you , my lord , that they 'd rid themselves of the load , it would only slow them down . |
| 6 | Donna was n't sure whether it was perspiration or if she 'd wet herself in the hectic chase . |
| 7 | We used to put some straw down and the manger and we used to give them some hay and they 'd amuse themselves in there tied up . |
| 8 | But love was what he felt for the stranger who 'd thrust herself upon him . |
| 9 | Just ge go anywhere sh I 'm sure she 'd entertain herself at the shops , she 'd be quite happy |
| 10 | Give Ray half a chance and he 'd blame himself for the invention of gunpowder . ’ |
| 11 | In embarking on this journey , I 'd put myself into store again and set off ; like the other women I needed safety , I needed to be taken care of , to take care of myself and now to take care of this journey . |
| 12 | I was beginning to think I 'd put myself in kind of a spot with all this . |
| 13 | She 'd put herself in Bridget 's hands . |
| 14 | It had been a silly , spur-of-the-moment impulse to deny it , but by lying to him she 'd put herself in an invidious position . |
| 15 | Sometimes at night I 'd find myself beyond the souks in narrow lanes between windowless houses . |
| 16 | If somebody had told her she 'd find herself in this same dubious position all over again , even one hour ago , she would have laughed right in their face . |
| 17 | They 'd haunt the alleys behind bakeries , they 'd help themselves from uncollected deliveries , they 'd stick around on the embankment for midnight handouts from the Salvation Army and the Krishna Temple . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm sure it was n't ; Garry is n't the brightest of men ; he 'd deceive himself into thinking I would n't try to trace him , and if it were n't for my sister I would n't bother ; the discrepancies in the accounts would be compensated for by his permanent absence from the firm . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ With one bound I would throw myself on the large white bearskin , which I adored , and cover its great head with kisses . ’ |
| 20 | It made sense to assume that Yuan and Zukov would throw themselves to the right of the line of fire , but he did not wait for them to act . |
| 21 | By day Hayling would help organize the workers at Langley , and in the evenings he would throw himself into pressure-group work . |
| 22 | What safety they offered was debatable , but if worst came to worst he would throw himself beneath a car , and deny the voiders the entertainment of his slow demise . |
| 23 | She would look all right and would throw herself into the dancing with undisciplined enthusiasm . |
| 24 | She told him that he would cover himself with ridicule by bringing the boy back . |
| 25 | Richard , he said , was deeply offended that anyone should think he would lower himself to the depths of duping the editor of Music Week . |
| 26 | Sometimes , he knew , she would bruise herself with a rock to get morph-plus out of him . |
| 27 | Materials with interesting sound effects would lend themselves to this kind of treatment . |
| 28 | They wanted stories that would lend themselves to lurid headlines such as FOR GOD 'S SAKE GO ! |
| 29 | He would lend himself to a deluge ; she would imagine water gushing into a basin . |
| 30 | Now the scholars amongst you will quickly realise that staying in a hotel near Balquhidder would lend itself to terms of geographic convenience to tackling Ben More , Ben Vorlich or even Ben Lawers . |