Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] yourself " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps you should have given yourself longer . ’ |
| 2 | You must have given yourself away somehow . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps you should have concerned yourself as much about avoiding emotional involvement yourself as about protecting me , ’ she said , and her voice was still sharp . |
| 4 | If you achieve this , then a record deal is just around the corner , and you will have earned yourself a strong negotiating position which should enable you to sign the deal you want and not the first deal that is offered . |
| 5 | A business that you may never have considered yourself involved in ; publishing . |
| 6 | If that 's what you 've been looking for you could have saved yourself the trouble . |
| 7 | You might have saved yourself the bother . ’ |
| 8 | If you 'd told me this in the make-up room when you came to have your hair cut , you 'd have saved yourself a needless journey . |
| 9 | ‘ So you could have saved yourself half an hour by going there . ’ |
| 10 | If he succumbs to temptation after all and suffers the consequences , it would be to the point to say ‘ You should have known better ’ or ‘ You ought to have had more sense ’ , reproaches which derive their authority from ‘ Face facts ’ ; but it would be irrelevant ( and exasperating ) to say ‘ You should n't have made yourself ill like that ’ , on the authority of the ‘ You do n't want to be sick ’ of the practical syllogism interpreted as ‘ Do n't get sick ’ . |
| 11 | Depending on the amount , you could put it towards paying off a mortgage , extending your home , taking a special holiday , even moving house — things you may have promised yourself for years , comforts you will certainly have earned by the time you retire . |
| 12 | If you are silly enough to categorize all your faults for the interviewer you will surely already have shown yourself as unsuitable for the job in many other ways . |
| 13 | And at least you will not have worn yourself out with unavailing efforts . |
| 14 | You must have worn yourself out , trying to satisfy all of them ! ’ |
| 15 | TAKE OUT a personal loan now and you will have landed yourself with a debt which is , at the most charitable interpretation , expensive . |
| 16 | ‘ Otherwise you would have spared yourself the journey . |
| 17 | Alternatively , you might have found yourself without the ready money you needed to snap up a bargain — like that washing machine you saw in the sales . |
| 18 | ‘ If Dobson had been any more seriously injured you 'd have found yourself in a cell by now . ’ |
| 19 | But then again I would n't be up tha far up your arse I mean , like you sa , you must have found yourself a couple of times getting close to somebody and without realising it and then they |
| 20 | If you have been through a divorce , you must have asked yourself , what if I 'd handled things differently ? |
| 21 | You really need n't have troubled yourself to come looking for me . ’ |
| 22 | From your unconscious there may rise ideas , characters , actions you never would have believed yourself capable of thinking of . |
| 23 | You could have cut yourself to ribbons . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You could have killed yourself . |
| 25 | You should have dedicated yourself to bringing up your child … . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ And I see you 've dressed yourself up for me . |