Example sentences of "that [pron] have [vb pp] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And then I feel that I 've given myself to somebody who thinks my heart is a pretty flower .
2 I looked at him closer ; trusted that he was not one of those ( not so many ) that I 'd pleasured myself with .
3 My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings .
4 ‘ Surely you must realize that I have placed myself in a difficult position ?
5 The predictions that I have concerned myself with are rather more critical .
6 It is for this reason that I have confined myself to novels concerned with the period before 1914 .
7 He saw and understood that she had prepared herself for him .
8 In front of the fire she kept a dark tab rug that she had made herself from scraps of different-coloured material .
9 Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her .
10 Fenna loved Maggie , and knowing that all was lost and love had departed , that she had betrayed their long friendship , that she had asserted herself over his mastery , he howled and , dropping his shoulder , hurled her out of her safe nest and into the immensity of space .
11 Edging away from him , she felt her legs collide with the low shelving , and realised with a jolting shock that she had backed herself into a corner .
12 The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person .
13 It amazed her that she 'd ever believed herself in love with him , that she 'd deluded herself into seeing his arrogance and his egotism as positive qualities .
14 And you 've filled in your UCCA form making sure that you 've put yourself across properly .
15 ‘ We must get back to the high standards of self-discipline that we have set ourselves in the past , ’ said Cooke .
16 The observant reader will have noticed that we have helped ourselves to the content of the features proposed by Hymes and the co-ordinates proposed by Lewis in a fairly arbitrary way .
17 Such is the importance of education and training that we have committed ourselves to a programme of investment of £1.7 billion .
18 Finally , by focusing upon the deficiencies of the young unemployed — their lack of training , their lack of qualifications , their lack of job search skills — it appeared that they had caused themselves to be unemployed .
19 The judge went on to say that they had notices of committal and that they had removed themselves from the jurisdiction .
20 Some of them could not believe that they had found themselves in a church , and were only stopping off en route to a nearby pub .
21 Sotheby 's Amsterdam , recently announced with pride that they had got themselves into The Guinness Book of Records .
22 It finds that it has lost itself upon
23 Try to ensure that it has relieved itself before the journey , and do not feed the dog immediately before setting out , since this appears to increase the risk of travel sickness .
24 Banking and dealing room software house Kapiti Ltd reckons that it is reaping the rewards of investment in new product development , and the fact that it has spread itself over a wide geographical area .
25 He admitted that he had injected himself with speed two days before the police acted on the search warrant on January 20th .
26 Levi explains that he had amused himself by writing a ‘ Western ’ and that he had wanted to write a hopeful book .
27 It seemed like only yesterday that he had presented himself at Manchester 's Ringway Airport for training with the newly formed Parachute Regiment .
28 Francisco worked in Admin , but occasionally he doubled as a barman , and he did n't have to explain that he had cut himself on a broken glass .
29 From the yet more gloomy expression on his normally lugubrious face it was evident that he had resigned himself to her companionship at least as far as his hotel perched up far above the sea .
30 Either the Führer 's statement , the report went on , meant that he had allowed himself to be badly deceived and was not , therefore , the genius he was always alleged to be ; or he had intentionally lied to the people about rising war production , knowing all the time that saboteurs were at work .
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