Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also expressed irritation about the way Tony seemed to have let himself go in the last few months , since he had become unemployed . |
| 2 | Apparently his ‘ lover ’ , the erstwhile Angel of Charles , Miss Farrah Fawcett , has confided in a ‘ pal ’ : ‘ I 'm ashamed of the way he 's let himself go . |
| 3 | The social worker who took on the referral found him somewhat embarrassed by his present circumstances , and the degree to which he had let himself go . |
| 4 | The refectory had been built when there was money around for building and the architect had let himself go with walls of glass and a high curving ceiling panelled in pastel colours . |
| 5 | People were squeezing by her in the general drift to get a look at him , and she let herself go with the crowd a little in order to see how he was doing . |
| 6 | I tried to help her see that if she let herself go enough to enjoy playing building bricks too , Nicola would n't feel the need to throw them around to get the attention she wanted . |
| 7 | They should not think her a woman who had let herself go . |
| 8 | The woman who had just walked into the sitting room had most decidedly not put on weight ; nor had she let herself go … anywhere . |
| 9 | Her best coat would perhaps have been better because it would make her look as though she had n't let herself go , but on the other hand her frightful old lumber jacket would have suggested , what was true enough , that she was worried enough not to care . |
| 10 | ‘ I have never let myself go like that , ’ Alida said , ‘ never . |
| 11 | Never having foreseen James would suddenly develop a sense of extra-office responsibility for me , I had rather let myself go describing the flat of a rich friend which allayed James 's earlier mild concern about where I was living . |
| 12 | Then he remembered his mother and Stefan and made himself go back and look up at the bodies till he did n't mind any more . |
| 13 | He 's really let himself go since my old Dad died . |
| 14 | Rincewind let himself go . |
| 15 | Let herself go a bit — ye get that with women whose men are giving them a hard time , and who hav'na found a way of getting their retaliation in first . ’ |
| 16 | Betty would probably rather be in the Dordogne , but she was here making sure that Lydia did n't lay violent hands on herself in the profundity of her misery , or let herself go to seed in the spiritless fashion of an old thistle . |
| 17 | If she were truthful , she had never properly imagined Bella as anything , except perhaps a spiteful , over-painted tart , drenched in a cheap scent , who was beginning to put on weight and let herself go . |
| 18 | One thing you could say for my daughter , she never let herself go . |
| 19 | I 've seen what happens when you let yourself go . |
| 20 | ‘ Just sit still , and let yourself go with it . |
| 21 | Let yourself go free — |
| 22 | Let yourself go on the giant slide for an exciting ride . |
| 23 | So let yourself go . |
| 24 | That 's the style … relax … let yourself go … the anaesthetists are really first rate … you wo n't feel a thing down bel … |
| 25 | Let yourself go ’ . ’ |
| 26 | I have no patience with women who let themselves go . ’ |
| 27 | They were people who really let themselves go on high days and holidays , not likely to fuss about anything left over . |
| 28 | I ca n't believe that I was really that desperate , that I let myself go that completely . |
| 29 | I can not paint it as beautifully as that , but it absorbs me so much that I let myself go , never thinking of a single rule … |
| 30 | I kept that up until dawn , when the search party returned , Esmerelda-less , then I let myself go to sleep . |