Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I got myself an editor who explained to me how to write a book , more or less , and what purple prose was , and all of that . |
| 2 | So I bought myself a bike , and I 've been popping backwards and forwards to my like |
| 3 | So I gave myself the day off . ’ |
| 4 | Suddenly we found ourselves the proud owners of three switchboards , two lines , thirteen phones and a miraculous fax ( ‘ Oooh , you must have to roll them up ever so small ’ ) machine . |
| 5 | So we got ourselves an Ordnance Survey map for the year of my birth and were able to prove that houses had indeed existed there , ’ he said . |
| 6 | So he set himself an exercise . |
| 7 | Downstairs she made herself a cup of coffee and carried it out onto the patio and drank it at the table , smoked a loose-rolled sweet Italian cigarette , and watched the coming of the dawn . |
| 8 | Later she made herself a light salad for lunch and ate it on the terrace . |
| 9 | Not only was he engaged in his publishing work , his meetings of the Moot and the Chandos Group , and his visits to Oxford for the Christian News Letter , but also he set himself a punishing schedule of conferences , talks and lectures ; in the first week of January 1941 , for example , there were six full days of such conferences . |
| 10 | Before the first series went out we got ourselves an established and admired distributor and waited for the programme sales cash to roll in . |
| 11 | Jackson 's family tradition in politics was Whig–Liberal ; now he styled himself a Conservative ‘ opposed to all rash and hasty innovations ’ . |
| 12 | Now he fancied himself a connoisseur of the smell , able to distinguish between its elements . |
| 13 | Whenever he was out he set himself the task ‘ to study how and why until I discovered how I should have played the ball that beat me ’ . |
| 14 | Many years ago I knitted myself a sleeveless jumper in mercerised cotton ; this stretched in the wash until it was more like a mini-dress . |
| 15 | Then I allowed myself the luxury to think ‘ Hey , yeah , at 30 you 're not such a failure after all . ’ |
| 16 | His first publication , a humorous but unsophisticated story entitled ‘ How I built myself a house ’ , published in Chambers 's Journal in March 1865 , was originally written for the amusement of colleagues during afternoons which appear to have been all too idle . |
| 17 | Like Julian , perhaps , Teresa also had an illness that may well have had a psychological aspect and which brought her to the brink of death ; her autobiography and spiritual writings show how she brought herself a physical and spiritual healing . |
| 18 | Sometimes she told herself the postcards , or exercise book scrawls , were messages to Daniel , but one should never , she considered , ignore surface meanings in favour of implications and the damned things were addressed to her , to Frederica . |
| 19 | Then he spilled himself a puddle of wine and , dipping one gloved finger in the puddle , drew a plan of his mother 's estate-village in relation to the deserted plague village . |
| 20 | Abruptly it proclaimed itself a tribe , featured all twenty-three staff , tribe members on the cover , reported on the growth of the yippies , America 's politicized hippies , and on plans by Sid Rawle 's Hyde Park Diggers to move to the country . |
| 21 | I was so proud of him , and maybe he preened himself a little , too ! |
| 22 | Furthermore , I think there is a problem for Christians today in thinking in terms of this non-gendered cosmic Christ which forms the key to her Christology ( and I am sure I should have thought this at the time when I counted myself a Christian ) . |
| 23 | When he arrived in America , Weill did not automatically expect New York ears to take to the music of the Berlin avant-garde in which he had played so prominent a part : instead he set himself the task of learning to write music with an American accent . |
| 24 | He seems to be cashing in on the goodwill of those who regret the party 's ‘ new start ’ last month when it renamed itself the Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) . |