Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do we want to classify ourselves zoologically ? |
| 2 | Merymose 's story had made him want to lose himself . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're very kind , Sean , but maybe if it 's as bad as that my husband would want to go himself … . ’ |
| 4 | After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider . |
| 5 | At the same time if a video has been taken of the wedding the speakers will want to see themselves . |
| 6 | The is quite difficult to , to work it out and , and analysis these people , you know , when you do n't want to see themselves watching people knowing them to watch Dynasty or Dallas or something , so they on purpose watch very interesting documentary . |
| 7 | And since he obviously had n't recognised me , I did n't want to connect myself with the house , until I 'd found out what his game was . ’ |
| 8 | but let's face it you 'll want to enjoy yourself love |
| 9 | She especially did not want to enjoy herself . |
| 10 | They would n't have allowed them , you know , did n't want to kill themselves like that . |
| 11 | ‘ Why would he want to kill himself ? ’ |
| 12 | Some transracial adopters may prefer to isolate themselves from the cultural background and ethnic origin of their child because it is easier in the short run to escape conflicts . |
| 13 | We did not want to exclude ourselves from membership ; but we could not accept such an automatic commitment . |
| 14 | People living here must prefer keeping themselves to themselves . ’ |
| 15 | The message from my friend is this : that you should keep that pretty little nose out of things that do n't concern you if you do n't want to find yourself in a whole load of trouble . |
| 16 | This is why , at the moment , I 'm being a bit cautious about remaining in my cavity I do n't want to find myself in the situation that I 'm held to sell . |
| 17 | The tenant does not want to find itself paying a proportion of the service charge ( which may include rates ) of unlet units . |
| 18 | We do n't want to find ourselves with any comic exposure unless all the parameters have been examined in-depth . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We do n't want to find ourselves locked in here , that would be extremely nasty . |
| 20 | She did n't want to find herself with a one-way Goldenrail Supersaver to Belsen . |
| 21 | She did not want to find herself alone in that Headmaster 's Study , where she would have to begin to think . |
| 22 | She did not want to find herself in a hierarchical situation in relation to others at work , thereby creating false barriers and reinforcing the capitalist class structure . |
| 23 | Whereas the discussion of strain and its measures involves kinematics only and may be conducted with no mention whatever of the forces that cause the deformation we must when considering stress involve ourselves in mechanics , that is , the nature of the forces operating on a system and the application of Newton 's laws ( we exclude in this discussion any relativistic effects ) . |
| 24 | It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels . |
| 25 | But when it actually occurs , whether her reaction is one of numbness and shock , or of anguish more openly expressed through episodes of weeping and talking freely about her feelings , you will need to brace yourself to catch her as she falls into what will seem to her to be the bottomless pit of her sorrow . |
| 26 | Again , he tackles , in The Conquest of Happiness , the roots of human unhappiness , and sees them in an excessive introversion , in an excessive concern with the mechanisms of one 's own mind , and proposes various ways in which people can seek to extract themselves from this introverted obsession with their own mechanisms . |
| 27 | You will need to find yoursel ’ other lodgings , Mr Arkwright . ’ |
| 28 | He would enjoy expressing himself to her . |
| 29 | If she lives on her own and poor health has robbed her of a normal social life , it is to be expected that her loneliness may have created such a build-up of unexpressed thoughts , feelings and opinions that she may need to talk herself to a standstill before she is ready to converse with you , and interest herself in anything you have to say . |
| 30 | I have to say though , that when we the Council advise other charities on the investment powers that they should take when they 're established and when they draft their Memorandum of Association , erm , we advise them to take wider powers er , than these , and we advise them that they should not seek to constrain themselves by the Trustee Investment Act nineteen sixty-one , as our own flexibility is constrained . |