Example sentences of "[pron] could [vb infin] [pn reflx] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With City backing , someone could get themselves a bargain . |
| 2 | If she alienates all the women she could do herself a lot of harm . ’ |
| 3 | She might not be able to manage one of Marguerite 's culinary delights , but at least she could cook herself a meal . |
| 4 | ‘ Would n't you like to know how Moll Sutton made so much money that she could get herself a shop ? ’ |
| 5 | This must be done by people on all levels involved in health-care , including the insurance companies who could save themselves a fortune in claims . |
| 6 | But you could fax yourself a copy of your signature or letterhead , save the incoming fax to disk , and incorporate it into outgoing faxes without too much hassle . |
| 7 | ‘ You could give yourself a nasty cut on those shoulder blades , ’ Arthur said , suddenly remembering the whole girl subject after his respite from it and feeling unusually breezy . |
| 8 | Apart from changing your diet , it would be a great idea if you could grant yourself a little more importance , and make sure you avoid getting overtired or missing meals , when at all possible . |
| 9 | you 're alright like , you could make yourself a nest in 'em and you was |
| 10 | You could make yourselves a drink . ’ |
| 11 | You could buy yourself a small luxury each week as a symbolic message to your subconscious , so that it begins to attract money into your life . |
| 12 | I 'm sure you could find yourself a nice easy job where you do n't have to do much apart from enhance the décor . |
| 13 | That way you could save yourself a whole load of trouble , not to mention planning ! ’ |
| 14 | I wonder if we could set ourselves a target , that we actually include something like this in next year 's business plan . |
| 15 | We had another week before the Festival and we figured we could hitch ourselves a ride the last leg of the way on a fast freight loader from Exalfa City . ’ |
| 16 | Perhaps we could allow ourselves a small sherry before dinner just for a change . |
| 17 | After working in all the major cities on the Continent , they could allow themselves a little self praise . |
| 18 | DEC perhaps captured the expectation best : ‘ Do you think he could buy himself a plane ticket and go on a personal tour of all of us — IBM , Hewlett-Packard , Sun Microsystems Inc , DEC — and bring us together in kind of an Open Software Foundation II with all of the chief executives on the same dais saying the past is behind us ? ’ |
| 19 | Whether or not he could call himself a Chief Rabbit , he had no experience of this sort of thing . |
| 20 | When he did he could call himself a Wrath eagle , for the site he had been born to was that of the proudest and fiercest of the golden eagles of Scotland and his mother was a Wrath eagle before him , his father having flown up from the south and won his place at her side in aerial combat with other males . |