Example sentences of "you [vb base] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you push yourself to your absolute limits and suffer terribly , the chances that you will be able to motivate yourself to suffer equally in two or three days ' time are practically zilch . |
| 2 | As you walk through the industrial towns you lose yourself in labyrinths of little brick houses blackened by smoke , festering in planless chaos round miry alleys and little cindered yards where there are stinking dustbins and lines of grimy washing and half-ruinous w.c.s. … at their very worst the Corporation houses are better than the slums they replace . |
| 3 | If you perceive yourself as a traveller rather than a tourist , read no further . |
| 4 | With a resounding yell , dummy to your right with your hands while you launch yourself at your target — the man on your far left . |
| 5 | And when you are , you hide yourself in your office or get glued to the video . |
| 6 | If you confine yourself to inside the room where he 's sitting very quiet and the only other |
| 7 | Give me that before you land yourself in worse trouble . ’ |
| 8 | Pergolas and arches are not so bad for accessibility , but dead-heading means work above your head and that entails the use of steps , which require a firm path or surface before you place yourself at risk on them . |
| 9 | And also , as he watched the boxer on the television , Boy began to think that there are two kinds of sex : the kind of sex where you say do this , do that , or you manoeuvre yourself into position for a particular kind of pleasure ; and then there is the other kind of sex , where you want not someone else 's body that had done those things the night before or the afternoon before . |
| 10 | If you 're a good girl I 'll take you home myself in the morning . ’ |
| 11 | For the less rarified among us they are the things you press yourself between before turning out the light . |
| 12 | If you base yourself in Kinlochleven and use the popular campsite in the glen for an overnight stop , the circuit could make a rewarding introduction to the rigours of backpacking in this Highland region . |
| 13 | You spread yourself in bed , |
| 14 | I suggest that where an average portion provides less than 20 calories you let yourself off the chore of weighing while following the F-Plan slimming method . |
| 15 | You put yourself into cold storage for two years as far as any kind of political practice goes and just sit and think — and do n't forget you 'll get paid £5000 a year to sit and think about the purity of the struggle we 're all fighting back here . ’ |
| 16 | Do a little homework before you put yourself at the mercy of a mortgage lender . |
| 17 | If you put yourself in each prisoner 's place , assuming both to be motivated by rational self-interest and remembering that they can not talk to one another to make a pact , you will see that neither has any choice but to betray the other , thereby condemning both to heavy sentences . |
| 18 | The magistrate told Long : ‘ You put yourself in charge of a lethal weapon and posed very grave dangers to innocent members of the public . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ If you put yourself in the position to be fashionable , then six months later everyone 's going to take the piss out of you . |
| 20 | you , if you put yourself in the position of a burglar , and y you 're already , you 've done it , you 're already making choices . |
| 21 | You put yourself in the right mental state and adopt the persona that 's needed . ’ |
| 22 | Presumably when you do land in a position like that even though as you say you 're getting near the end of the game for the blue ball , you would n't deliberately not go through the hoop , if you 'll put in that , if you put yourself in that position ? |
| 23 | But i if you put yourself in my position and all you do is call |
| 24 | You know when you 're small , you cover yourself with ropes of it and run along the beach ? |
| 25 | You restrict yourself to half a dozen goals in each case . |
| 26 | Although I 'm strongly against what can only be described as the ‘ bastardisation ’ of a property , a little out-of-keeping decor is often unavoidable unless you restrict yourself to a very limited range of choice . |
| 27 | You know that if you kill yourself with fatigue , you 'll have no hours left at all . |
| 28 | Your attitude , especially if you are not accustomed to dealing with lawyers , will alter considerably if you familiarize yourself with the law as it affects you . |
| 29 | Either that or you run yourself around ragged , and you go to sleep and then we get to one o'clock , two o'clock in the morning , and you wake up , and then what do you do ? |
| 30 | ‘ And you watch yourself with that fried egg . |