Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At SAVE we ask ourselves three simple questions : |
| 2 | There was the usual extra food for Christmas and we allowed ourselves three slices of bread each for breakfast instead of two . |
| 3 | We gave ourselves ten minutes . |
| 4 | NLP ( neuro-linguistic programming ) suggests that if we give ourselves one option , we become a robot ; with two choices , we have a dilemma ; but with three or more options , we have a choice . |
| 5 | But there 's always some manner in which we ca n't quite break free , and most of us will find ourselves one shocked moment holding a girlfriend or boyfriend in the way we 've seen our parents holding each other for years . |
| 6 | Thus while standards were relaxed , this was accompanied by less tolerance of their breach , compliance being expected in 95 per cent , rather than 75 per cent , of samples : ‘ exposing ourselves five per cent of the time ’ , as a senior man put it , thinking of his agency 's sewage works . |
| 7 | Thank you Mr chairman , just one point Mr , we 're not voting ourselves five percent more , we 're taking five percent off next year 's allowance and putting it to this one so it 's a negative rollover , so we 're actually spending some of next year 's money this year . |
| 8 | The point I 'm going to make is that erm , if we are n't going to get through the year and we 're all going to have to take a percentage of our March allowances because the money 's run out and we 're cash limited even if we give ourselves five percent extra , erm , could I get an assurance from the officers that the people that have n't put in their forms will get a note to remind them to do so , so that everybody is in there , you wo n't suddenly find that because you have n't had your claim form in by the fourteenth you 're gon na get nothing and everybody else is gon na get something . |
| 9 | We give ourselves two hundred years to achieve it . |
| 10 | We have set ourselves four education targets . |
| 11 | ‘ I was delighted to get a point after finding ourselves 2–0 down . |
| 12 | Otherwise it is rather like spending several days journeying to a famous tourist site , but when we get there only allowing ourselves 20 minutes to see it . |
| 13 | He had folded his sheet three times , giving himself eight leaves ( sixteen pages ) in each section or gathering . |
| 14 | Ptah embodied within himself eight other Ptah 's , who had the names of other gods , amongst which Atum was his thought , Horus his heart and Thoth his tongue . |
| 15 | Tomorrow night 's South Bank Show will profile the great man himself 30 years after his death . |
| 16 | Baird then returned to the mainland after two years to work as sous chef under Brian Baker at Hambleton Hall , Leicestershire , before being offered the head chef 's job at Longueville himself 12 months later . |
| 17 | Having completed the very demanding annual Personal Weapons Test , each section member was required to run up a plank of wood to a window-frame , shoot at a target on the other side of the window , and then throw himself six feet down into a simulated building interior . |
| 18 | He heaved himself six inches forward , and George laid an arresting hand on the remaining available ankle , and held fast . |
| 19 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |
| 20 | Having set out his stall , Lord Devlin goes on to ask himself three questions , the answers to which , he suggests , will provide the evidence to back up his earlier assertion . |
| 21 | It is perhaps ironic that a financier whose fortunes had foundered on the unreliability of the royal credit should have busied himself three years after his bankruptcy with devising a project for a national bank whose impracticability his own fate had spectacularly demonstrated . |
| 22 | Returning from the Mort Homme , Raymond Jubert introspectively posed himself three questions : |
| 23 | Ultimately , his change of pace and flight of the ball broke up the rhythm of Lee , who perhaps rather over pressed in the first set and found himself 0–5 down before he adjusted his momentum to claw four games back before Galasso 's touch and confidence returned , in what was for him a perfect final game and a match point won with a brilliant lob . |
| 24 | Possibly the earliest attempt at a scientific study of ageing , he wrote it when he was himself 62 . |
| 25 | Her father , himself ten years older than her mother , seemed more concerned about his daughter marrying a man who was seventeen years older than her , and had felt that she was entering into the marriage largely because of the misfortune that had afflicted her family . |
| 26 | The difference being that Laing was alive and living in London and Inner Space , while Reich had killed himself fifteen years before in the United States . |
| 27 | He looked round and found himself three-quarters of the way down the bath . |
| 28 | William III was , as usual , absent on the Continent and the forces which Queen Mary had at her disposal to repel James were far fewer than those available to James himself five years before . |
| 29 | The former French Socialist prime minister shot himself five weeks after his party 's crushing defeat in parliamentary elections . |
| 30 | Parsley was level par at the turn but found himself five down yet he never gave up . |