Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yer made yerself vulnerable , ’ said the Old Stager irritably . |
| 2 | ‘ We got ourselves a new ball park , ’ said the man from Detroit . |
| 3 | ‘ We got ourselves into one of those silly situations , in the middle of 1883 , which meant there was no way for me to remain . |
| 4 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 5 | Before the first series went out we got ourselves an established and admired distributor and waited for the programme sales cash to roll in . |
| 6 | An omnibus awaited us , and we got ourselves and our luggage stowed therein or thereon ; but a place in the hotel omnibus does not guarantee that you will find a corner in the house . |
| 7 | ‘ Then we got ourselves into a winning position only for carelessness to force us to go back to their place for a replay . ’ |
| 8 | We grabbed the ‘ speeder from the motor park and amazingly enough got ourselves passage to the Festival on a grain hopper . ’ |
| 9 | She had stopped giving me murderous looks and seemed quite bright-eyed as we got ourselves ready to leave the ship . |
| 10 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 11 | So we got ourselves an Ordnance Survey map for the year of my birth and were able to prove that houses had indeed existed there , ’ he said . |
| 12 | just about got ourselves reasonably tidy , you know , after Christmas and everything and set , managing to save and spend as well |
| 13 | While we waited for the service to finish we amused ourselves rearranging the flowers on the graves . |
| 14 | We amused ourselves playing ever more card games , later and later into the night , using up our sometimes meagre supply of candles . |
| 15 | We sold ourselves short then but we believe we have the ability and the temperament to cope on Sunday . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We made ourselves some ro is , and when we 'd eaten them , I set out for home . |
| 17 | Er , I would think we made ourselves generally useful . |
| 18 | We made ourselves at home , ate the simple food sent across to us from the refectory and retired to bed . |
| 19 | We were cooking for ourselves so we settled in for the evening and made ourselves comfortable . |
| 20 | We retired to our chamber , made ourselves as comfortable as our bleak quarters would allow , and later joined the rest of the household when they gathered to dine in the small hall . |
| 21 | the place , I mean , the chap down at the housing down there , try to say to me we made ourselves homeless |
| 22 | We seated ourselves and he regarded us expectantly , so I opened with , ‘ Can you tell me all about lymphomas and can I see a lymph node ? ’ |
| 23 | We seated ourselves and I watched her cut her muffins into quarters . |
| 24 | We asked ourselves what we could do to make the shops busy . |
| 25 | We had to believe the photographs which appeared in the newspapers , but I think we all asked ourselves how such things could be in a so-called civilised world . |
| 26 | Another contributor said that if we asked ourselves the question : ‘ Do the agencies discriminate against West Belfast ? ’ , the answer had to be ‘ yes ’ . |
| 27 | So we asked ourselves whether this catalogue would still find a corresponding resonance , given the flood of technical literature which is currently circulating in the ceramics market . |
| 28 | By the time we lowered ourselves over the bergschrund and had descended the soggy snow of the glacier , the sun was dipping below the satellites of Mt Blanc . |
| 29 | No we had a reasonably good dinner and , and we did n't want no tea when we come home , this could have been some of it cos all I had then when we did about seven o'clock when we decided we 'd have a bowl of soup , erm , we stuffed ourselves , we had toast and breakfast erm , we had one or two sweets in the hospital , er while we were waiting and then er , we went to Asda and then we got er |
| 30 | She , too , was a ‘ scholarship girl ’ and we prided ourselves on being the two most intelligent girls in the place . |