Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where an unauthorised act outside the normal scope of his authority is committed by a partner or someone holding himself out to be a partner , liability will not attach to the firm . |
| 2 | in the empty market-place , where I imagine myself |
| 3 | where I sense myself grow lighter and heavier , dizzy , solid , |
| 4 | I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home … |
| 5 | On getting there I calculated when I would arrive at the next post , where I promised myself lunch . |
| 6 | She nodded and strode briskly to the sideboard , where she busied herself pouring coffee . |
| 7 | The last years of her life were divided between Bermuda and Plandome , Long Island , where she built herself an Italian-style villa and where she died 29 October 1924 . |
| 8 | After her father 's death she moved to Petersfield , Hampshire , where she supported herself by washing clothes , brewing , and other types of manual work . |
| 9 | It causes no pollution , either in terms of fuel consumption or noise , yet finding yourself suddenly cowering in the shadow of a huge coloured parachute at the top of a hill where you imagined yourself to be alone , bursts the illusionary balloon of solitude and remote wilderness for me . |
| 10 | Where you position yourself is vital . |
| 11 | Prices can work out cheaper than many restaurants , depending on numbers , but start at around £3.50 for a buffet where you serve yourself . |
| 12 | No truly — I do not Tease — how should I demean you or myself so — or you demean Yourself to think it . |
| 13 | And also , as he watched the boxer on the television , Boy began to think that there are two kinds of sex : the kind of sex where you say do this , do that , or you manoeuvre yourself into position for a particular kind of pleasure ; and then there is the other kind of sex , where you want not someone else 's body that had done those things the night before or the afternoon before . |
| 14 | If something unexpected happens during an inner journey — perhaps one of your guides will appear when you were expecting your inner child , or you find yourself in a cave rather than on a riverbank — go with your own experience . |
| 15 | If you ca n't move straight into your new home , or you find yourself with too many belongings , you may want to put some things into storage . |
| 16 | Either that or you run yourself around ragged , and you go to sleep and then we get to one o'clock , two o'clock in the morning , and you wake up , and then what do you do ? |
| 17 | Or she zips herself into a black evening gown and she 's a sophisticated 30 year old . |
| 18 | The careful and precise manner in which these financial arrangements were laid down suggests that many who served saw the war as essentially a business enterprise holding out the promise of substantial rewards for those who were fortunate or who distinguished themselves in the field . |
| 19 | How all those immigrants and children of immigrants , that the Statue of Liberty , means a great deal to those Americans who whose parents or who came themselves from another country . |
| 20 | Some of us constantly tell stories where we depict ourselves as having the qualities we secretly think we lack or that others need reminding of . |
| 21 | We have all done tasks where we reward ourselves if we achieve them and ‘ beat ourselves up ’ if we do n't . |
| 22 | ‘ It gets to the point , ’ explains Fred apologetically , ‘ where we disgust ourselves . |
| 23 | So the clarity and vibrancy bestowed by the immanence of the Life Force during a Sat yuga declines , giving way to ages of progressively lower consciousness , until we reach the Kal yuga , where we find ourselves today . |
| 24 | This kind of activity could be called the micro-politics of race , though in practice , as where we align ourselves with the struggles of our brothers and sisters in South Africa , it is more likely to prove the micro-politics of race 's overcoming . |
| 25 | I was very bad at gym , and really hated ‘ apparatus ’ , where we hurled ourselves over boxes and horses , or hung upside down on parallel bars . |
| 26 | At these roadshows , we introduced the Group 's Vision and Mission Statement — where we see ourselves in the future and the principals by which we intend to conduct our business . |
| 27 | Otherwise I 'll nibble on fruit or something to convince myself that I 'm eating well ! |
| 28 | Nigel had reasoned that , as most washing originated where one divested oneself of one 's dirty clothes and bed linen , i.e. the top floor , it was poor time-and-motion study to have the cleaning apparatus on the ground floor . |
| 29 | The larvae then migrate through the tissue of the mouth ( cheeks , tongue , and pharynx ) to the stomach , where they attach themselves to the stomach lining . |
| 30 | Strange things happen to eating : people lose their appetites and pick at their food ; or they stuff themselves ; cravings for sweets or junk food appear ; and again these can develop into clinical obesity , anorexia or bulimia . |