Example sentences of "[vb base] [pn reflx] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because nobody understands us , and we hate ourselves for needing to be understood . |
| 2 | Supporters of this option claim it reinstates the spectacle of demo-cracy , while critics content themselves with pointing out that it is currently used in Iceland , Bosnia , and parts of Turkey . |
| 3 | Keep yourself clean from head to foot and provide yourself with opening medicine in case of need . |
| 4 | An alternative approach is to seek a better understanding of the developmental processes which seem to be at work by studying young children as they involve themselves in getting to know the language . |
| 5 | I will not list Frances ’ numerous qualities but content myself with saying that I know of no one who could fill her position as well as she … ’ |
| 6 | While the war continued I could ( almost ) fool myself into believing that I was like those other women who were merely separated from their men ‘ for the duration ’ — or , if not that , at least I felt that my life was suspended . |
| 7 | If we restrict ourselves to puts and calls on a single security there are 4 simple types of investment strategy to look at : |
| 8 | Thank goodness for Iris , thought Melissa as she plodded wearily up to bed , for insisting that she cover herself by reporting Lou 's visit . |
| 9 | Some seem to be able to cause their bodies to cure or to prevent certain diseases and even prevent themselves from acquiring genetically inherited ones . |
| 10 | ‘ When they go onto these so-called new diets , people tend to lose weight because they automatically restrict themselves without realising they ought to be eating more bread , cereals , fruit and vegetables . |
| 11 | Within the enterprise , we will also assume for the purposes of argument that ‘ Internal Library and Information Centres ’ restrict themselves to acquiring only that external information which is ‘ publicly available ’ . |
| 12 | Well , they say that remarks that they would feel were friendly remarks directed towards students they stop themselves from saying and examine and think if I say that will I make her feel uncomfortable ? |
| 13 | I restrict myself to pointing to the human misery that follows on such events and our human and Christian responsibilities in the face of such hardship . |
| 14 | Whenever you catch yourself speeding up in a car to get through a red light , deliberately penalize yourself by turning right at the next corner . |
| 15 | Having given up hope of a career , they have doubts about the future and support themselves by working in ‘ low pay , low prestige , low benefit jobs in the service industry ’ or ‘ McJobs ’ . |
| 16 | So , obstacles or other animals in the vicinity reveal themselves by distorting the fish 's electric field . |
| 17 | One might , thus , fantasise the death of someone seen as a threat , or imagine oneself as possessing enormous fame or wealth . |
| 18 | He had managed to dislodge the noose from his neck and save himself by jumping into the freezing water below . |
| 19 | As marriage partners view themselves with regard to the prospect of being loved there is something to be said for considering the phileo model . |
| 20 | Walls built to support terraces , used as boundaries , forming part of a flight of steps , containing raised beds and so on , whether brick or stone , lend themselves to planting actually in their fabric . |
| 21 | ‘ Ron Barr of Cibola recommends that you orient yourself by identifying some resort houses and a beach , further south some low cliffs , and still further south a stand of palms with one particularly high one on its north end . |
| 22 | Doubtless while our noble lords and masters stand back and applaud themselves for winning yet another battle . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You can still make a bit of money and enjoy yourself without ripping people off . |
| 24 | You enjoy yourself by performing to the best of your ability — as soon as you become irresponsible , you 're not performing to that level and , if you 're honest with yourself , you wo n't enjoy it . |
| 25 | The revolutionary intelligentsia , Plekhanov urged , must abandon its romantic and terrorist traditions , adopt the scientific perspective of Marxism , and devote itself to assisting in the development of a powerful revolutionary organization of the proletariat . |
| 26 | The President also announced that he would form a transitional government of " national union " as early as January 1991 , which would seek to " strengthen state machinery " and " devote itself to restoring the ethics of the civil service . " |
| 27 | Janice plans to stay at home and devote herself to looking after me and Kirsty . ’ |
| 28 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 29 | The way you present yourself in responding is the way you present the company . |
| 30 | Some animals you cut turfs of little bits of turf out and you put in the , in the corner of the box and they , they lick that and amuse themselves by eating it bit by bit . |