Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] a " 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 've given ourselves a budget of four thousand pounds and we 've ear |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 9 | Now they now said come on let us build ourselves a city and also a tower with its |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Let's go hunt ourselves a party , ’ says the one who owns the boat . |
| 12 | We 've won ourselves a new world . |
| 13 | " 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 ? " |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So it is back to Portugal these Portugals can go , and tell Dom João to find himself a wife elsewhere . " |
| 17 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In his brother 's flat in Kemp Town , Ron Barton , who had filed his copy in the small hours — ‘ Wife 's greeting sends Tories packing ’ — had fried himself a pig 's kidney , and was greedily rereading his copy . |
| 20 | He did have street cunning , most if it aimed to keeping himself a mystery . |
| 21 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 22 | Denis found himself a little abashed , and rose to cover his embarrassment . |
| 23 | Ex-convict Charrièere found himself a huge celebrity when the book sold a million copies in France , two-and-a-half million in America and ten million throughout the world . |
| 24 | Then a bearded man in a bowler hat and overcoat came in , looked around and found himself a seat in a corner . |
| 25 | There was a gulph [ sic ] between slavery and freedom which could neither be filled up nor closed over and across which the slave must leap ere he alighted on the other side and found himself a free man . |
| 26 | For a second time du Guesclin found himself a prisoner of the English , who routed his army . |
| 27 | The young James found himself a virtual prisoner of the Red Douglases in Edinburgh castle . |
| 28 | After the war ended he found himself a completely free agent , suddenly removed from the safety of neutral Switzerland ; he was shaken , disturbed ; his true self was born . |
| 29 | After the first success in the matter of Amy Larner , who was now comfortably situated with Dr Horrocks 's friends in Saxburgh , Edwin Frere found himself a little at a loss , for his parish proved less permeable than he had hoped to the motions of the spirit . |
| 30 | He came here with my grandmother when he was in his early twenties , changed his name from Vassilakas to Vass and found himself a job in the only trade he knew . |