Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well now , Barney , ye may think yerself an old man but I do n't think of meself as such ! ’ he exclaimed testily . |
| 2 | ‘ We got ourselves a new ball park , ’ said the man from Detroit . |
| 3 | Before the first series went out we got ourselves an established and admired distributor and waited for the programme sales cash to roll in . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I think we 'd make ourselves a laughing-stock . ’ |
| 6 | If we make ourselves the bar , if we suggest that self-determination is the right of every people on earth but the Germans , we risk creating resentments in Germany which could be quite as destabilising to the European order as reunification . |
| 7 | Another contributor said that if we asked ourselves the question : ‘ Do the agencies discriminate against West Belfast ? ’ , the answer had to be ‘ yes ’ . |
| 8 | if we 've given ourselves a budget of four thousand pounds and we 've ear |
| 9 | ‘ We 've given ourselves a chance to finish in the top three , a tremendous achievement for a team that was tipped for relegation at the start of the season . |
| 10 | We have enforced questionable criteria , appealed to divine authority and given ourselves the right to make our own interpretation of it . |
| 11 | ‘ Come , ’ they say to one another , ‘ Let us build ourselves a city , and a tower with its top in the heavens , and let us make a name for ourselves , lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth ’ ( 11.4 ) . |
| 12 | Now they now said come on let us build ourselves a city and also a tower with its |
| 13 | The more fully we have developed ourselves the more cause for such gratitude we will have , and the more we understand the cosmos , particularly by grasping the true nature of detailed parts of it and their place in the total scheme , the more we will appreciate the sheer wonderfulness of it , and arrive at a kind of mystical adoration of it . |
| 14 | Outside but shadowing the DM , we deny ourselves the support of the system at times of currency fluctuation . |
| 15 | ‘ Outside , but shadowing the Deutschmark , we deny ourselves the support of the system at times of currency fluctuation . ’ |
| 16 | By checking ourselves a moment before taking action , we give ourselves time to use our reasoning powers in investigating the most efficient and appropriate way of performing such an action . |
| 17 | ‘ Let's go hunt ourselves a party , ’ says the one who owns the boat . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We 've won ourselves a new world . |
| 20 | " But why should we endure the hell of life in the colonies , mon vieux , if we do n't enjoy ourselves a little and try to put something by for our old age at the same time , heh ? " |
| 21 | And if that child is sensitive and caring and does not wish to hurt or disappoint his parents , perhaps he may even enter the medical profession and spend years doing something he does not really want to do while denying himself the opportunity of fulfilling his life in the way he would have chosen . |
| 22 | He fixed his eyes on the prophecy with fresh deliberation , denying himself the comfort of blinking to be certain he missed nothing . |
| 23 | Duncan 's account is , in fact , a not unsympathetic one of Eliot punishing himself , denying himself the small pleasures or luxuries which someone of his wealth and distinction could have enjoyed : " He always took his wine flavoured with guilt " . |
| 24 | Then his face contorted in pain , and she knew instinctively with infinite relief that it was the face of a man reluctantly denying himself the sexual release he patently craved by wielding a superhuman control . |
| 25 | He then went on-to become a valuable back-up member of the squad that took Palace to promotion in 1989 and , after a useful spell on loan with Hull City in midwinter , returned to claim the left-back position for the remainder of the season , gaining himself the Barclays Young Eagle of the Month award in March 1990 , sharing in some excellent 1st Division results , the FA Cup semi-final victory over Liverpool and two Wembley appearances against Manchester United . |
| 26 | He told Calero he ought to find himself a code-name — a suggestion Calero virtually ignored — because ‘ the Soviets listen to everything on the east coast ’ . |
| 27 | A newcomer to the political scene , whether lord or man , could not hope to operate outside this existing network , but had instead to find himself a place within it . |
| 28 | So it is back to Portugal these Portugals can go , and tell Dom João to find himself a wife elsewhere . " |
| 29 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 30 | A newcomer to the political scene , whether lord or man , could not hope to operate outside this existing network , but had instead to find himself a place within it . |