Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Please yerself then , ’ the woman replied , looking disappointed . |
| 2 | Mum says you 'll bump yerself up an' down one day till yer 'ead comes orf . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You can take yer bonnet off and sit yerself down . |
| 4 | just about got ourselves reasonably tidy , you know , after Christmas and everything and set , managing to save and spend as well |
| 5 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 6 | Seeing ourselves as less important than anyone else , or less worthy or deserving than others , is just another form of arrogance , disguised as humility or neurosis . |
| 7 | We attempt to gather ourselves up , |
| 8 | We do n't want the same to happen to us in the UK — to go the same way as the British motor or electronics industries have — and to prevent this we must make ourselves as lean , fit and efficient as possible ; able to compete with the Japanese on quality , service , delivery and price . |
| 9 | Can not concede that it had been possible and neither will shift in how we communicate and view the place of the Royals in our society and what the are and how those P R shifts a phrase in terms of let's make ourselves more public , let's make ourselves more accessible , have resulted in that because their very their very accessibility is the those kind of radio programmes to happen . |
| 10 | Can not concede that it had been possible and neither will shift in how we communicate and view the place of the Royals in our society and what the are and how those P R shifts a phrase in terms of let's make ourselves more public , let's make ourselves more accessible , have resulted in that because their very their very accessibility is the those kind of radio programmes to happen . |
| 11 | It is the younger age range to whom we must make ourselves more attractive and appealing . |
| 12 | Turning now to the views of professional employees on taxation , we confine ourselves again to British studies . |
| 13 | It was essential that we become more professional in our outlook and make ourselves more financially viable . |
| 14 | We sold ourselves short then but we believe we have the ability and the temperament to cope on Sunday . ’ |
| 15 | Er , I would think we made ourselves generally useful . |
| 16 | We retired to our chamber , made ourselves as comfortable as our bleak quarters would allow , and later joined the rest of the household when they gathered to dine in the small hall . |
| 17 | We push ourselves higher and higher into the air and our shoes fall from our feet on to the concrete below us . |
| 18 | So obviously there 's a few tough games ahead , but you know , with erm if we set our out right and keep working hard , then hopefully we can get a few points and maybe push ourselves further up the table . |
| 19 | But we still went on enjoying ourselves immensely for the officers handed us chocolates and were very kind . |
| 20 | He came down into the cellar and was awarded a pint and we all seemed to be enjoying ourselves when , once more , there was a banging on the door . |
| 21 | We had to believe the photographs which appeared in the newspapers , but I think we all asked ourselves how such things could be in a so-called civilised world . |
| 22 | Before we turn to that material we must look at the course the narrative has taken since the beginning of Genesis , reminding ourselves yet again of familiar events , and skimming through areas we have not looked at so far . |
| 23 | We begin by reminding ourselves daily that God provides all that we need for our lives . |
| 24 | I 've often speculated since on what would have happened if we 'd just given ourselves up at this point . |
| 25 | In fact this has been a bit over ambitious , very pleased with ourselves were n't we , perhaps we have n't given ourselves enough ? |
| 26 | Do we want to classify ourselves zoologically ? |
| 27 | The examples of ( 10 ) have interesting implications , but we shall restrict ourselves here to those aspects which bear on adjectival grammar ; we take them as confirming evidence that we are justified in following Bolinger and recognizing that certain adjectives qualify another property , qua property , and are not to be assigned , independently , to any entity present in or assumed by the structure of the sentence in which they appear . |
| 28 | Research can be carried out at all sorts of levels ; we could restrict ourselves simply to reading everything we can find and produce a piece of work which was wholly based on documentary sources and which did not involve us in attending any baptisms or asking anyone involved any questions . |
| 29 | Oh yes , I was told , providing we did n't mind tucking ourselves away in a converted cow shed . |
| 30 | But himself said this would happen , because I was always washin' her bloody hair and keepin' her face scab-free , unlicing her an' the rest , instead of gettin' meself out to work . |