Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may know that the vehicle has been taken , but seek positively to absent himself from the scene and the commission of the aggravated offence . |
| 2 | Siblings fight , they 're mean , they bully and pinch , and know how to paint themselves as the innocent victim . |
| 3 | Two terrified passers-by , caught in the middle of the second blast at Cateaton Street , try desperately to shield themselves from the force of the explosion as they are engulfed by billowing smoke . |
| 4 | But the hills remain , for these mountain ranges of southern Greece do not lend themselves to the blandishments of the travel brochure . |
| 5 | The windows are richly dressed , though they do not lend themselves to the Kensington approach ; as with Thins , the interior has been face-lifted and made warmly welcoming . |
| 6 | Of course none of this will happen if European electronics companies do not commit themselves to the manufacture and use of flat panel displays . |
| 7 | Trace the outlines on to greaseproof or tracing paper , and fix a piece of waxed paper on top of this , securing firmly at the edges — this double layer is so that pencil marks do not attach themselves to the icing and discolour it . |
| 8 | Most advocates of biological theories do not express themselves in the same bizarre language and style as Lombroso , and such theories of crime are not merely historical relics that died with Lombroso . |
| 9 | Even if the equation could be established , the beneficiaries are not the same or do not see themselves as the same : the patients paying two shillings for their bottles of medicine do not identify themselves with the patients admitted to hospital sooner or treated more efficiently . |
| 10 | Do not restrict yourself to the punchcards supplied with the machine . |
| 11 | You and your staff will maintain the well-established convention whereby ministers do not concern themselves with the detailed information which may be obtained by the Security Service in particular cases , but are furnished with such information only as may be necessary for the determination of any issue on which guidance is sought . |
| 12 | All this will be perfectly satisfactory to those who are willing to stop their analysis of conditioning at this level and who do not concern themselves with the detailed mechanisms that underlie the subject , s sensitivity to these various correlations . |
| 13 | In this way , though we do not rid ourselves of the ego , we do transcend it and make it softer and enable ourselves to see things calmly . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't pat yourself on the back too soon . |
| 15 | Dorothy went on with her work for a minute and then asked : ‘ Isobel , what happens to these kids , supposing they do n't drop themselves over the railway bridge in sheer despair ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Well , make sure you do n't show yourself on the skyline up there . |
| 17 | It goes up and straight down l and you ca n't stay up erm in the water , you go straight under and you do n't find yourself in the middle erm of the pool where it actually comes in you find yourself being pressed against the wall by the water pressure |
| 18 | Criticize positively and constructively everything you 're made of and everything you do ( but do n't destroy yourself in the process — you are no use to anyone as a nervous wreck with an inferiority complex ) . |
| 19 | do n't obsess yourself with the idea that none of them ( Unionist MPs ) understand the view of the man in the street … there is plenty of soundness in the party inside the House … and , easy as it is to call everyone inside Parliamentarians , and to assume that everyone outside are the only judges … you will have to get inside before you realize the difficulties of the situation , or the value of the cool-headed men who still represent the Unionist party in the House , and remain independent of Cabinet influence … |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , we do n't confine ourselves to the town . |
| 21 | do n't hit yourself on the head , it 'll hurt , shall I make you say Robert |
| 22 | Because you do n't hear yourself in the same way as everybody else hears you . |
| 23 | But do n't drive yourself into the ground . |
| 24 | the natural deduction from what I have said so far would be for Governments to end the necessity of monetising debt and make sure that they do n't put themselves in the position of monetising debt — at any rate in circumstances where there is not a substantial deficiency of demand for labour and where therefore the monetisation of debt would not be counterbalanced by an increase in real production . |
| 25 | For the first time since then I 'm convinced we wo n't win , and start mentally realigning myself to the joys of a hung parliament . |
| 26 | The Oxford ordination ceremonies have been booked for April the sixteenth and seventeenth of next year although the Diocese stresses there 's been no race to be first , they 've merely found themselves at the head of the queue . |
| 27 | I mean I think I 've already resigned myself to the fact that I 'm going to have to do one maybe two years more before I get anything like |
| 28 | When you 've done that first one you 'll have to let us have a listen , I 've never heard myself on the tape before . |
| 29 | I know I think we 've actually shot ourselves in the foot here because I 've never known anything like it . |
| 30 | The point of this fracture between regulation broken and its consequences is that it facilitates corporate crime ; executives need only concern themselves with the likelihood of being leniently punished for breaking regulations , whilst ignoring its consequences for the law does not concern itself with the consequences either . |