Example sentences of "[pron] give [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's always the pressure that I give myself , and I 've given myself a lot of pressure this last year ’ , she revealed . |
| 2 | Therefore with generosity ( I give myself ) and gentleness ( I kiss the beast ) and no-shame ( I do what I do of my own free will ) and forgiveness ( he ca n't help himself ) . |
| 3 | I give myself a pat on the back for every question which I answered in a way which led the pupils deeper into the problem . |
| 4 | I give myself two pats on the back for every answer which started with ‘ I do n't know but what if … ’ because these answers show that I regard the investigation as a shared experience . |
| 5 | If I give myself up , I 'll be charged with murder . ’ |
| 6 | I give myself one hundred and twenty new panes to varnish round , who says we grows wiser as we grows old . |
| 7 | It 's not just a case of him taking us with all of what we had and were and us belonging to him , but he says i in taking you to myself , he says I give myself to you . |
| 8 | I fear , however , that in my anxiety to win the support of Mrs Clements and the girls , I did not perhaps assess quite as stringently my own limitations ; and although my experience and customary caution in such matters prevented my giving myself more than I could actually carry out , I was perhaps negligent over this question of allowing myself a margin . |
| 9 | I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home … |
| 10 | I gave myself to him completely , both as a human being and as an artist . |
| 11 | In a ghost town , silent and deserted as the Marie Celeste , I gave myself a history lesson . |
| 12 | I gave myself a minute or two to get my nerves under control and ventured outside the cloud , briefly at first then more confidently when it was apparent that the danger had passed . |
| 13 | I gave myself away to everybody : fat , high , low , ugly , perfumed and badly-smelling . ’ |
| 14 | So I gave myself the day off . ’ |
| 15 | I gave myself a pat on the back though and carried on through Cross Rift into Selenite Passage where the rock sparkles with the glassy selenite running through the walls . |
| 16 | I was out for four and a half months , then I gave myself up because I was carrying my daughter , Sasha . |
| 17 | No answer from me — if there was an Umpire , he would know what was in my heart — instead I gave myself orders , pumping myself up with little pecks of the head : Concentrate . |
| 18 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 19 | So I gave myself just half an hour to get to the theatre and prepare for curtain up — and phoned home at each interval . |
| 20 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
| 21 | The question slipped out before I gave myself time to consider the wisdom of it . |
| 22 | I had already acquired the address from the ‘ yellow pages ’ and estimated that it was a ten mile drive , thus I gave myself half an hour to account for delays . |
| 23 | ‘ I gave myself away ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I gave myself two years to win promotion when I arrived at Ayresome Park last summer . |
| 25 | I gave myself ones for like erm like ability like I know I 'm good at it but effort was like three , you know , I 'm below a but they , they 're stupid because it was either above average or below average and what 's just average , it was okay , I 've been really okay . |
| 26 | ‘ Mum , why do n't you give yourself a treat and go to Benidorm for a fortnight ? |
| 27 | Ca n't you give yourself a day off ? ’ |
| 28 | George said : ‘ I think this should be a lesson to directors who give themselves massive pay rises . |
| 29 | In the moral optimism informing this play , evil may corrode trust , but it also destroys the healthy functioning of all who give themselves over to it . |
| 30 | It can also mean " unrestrained " in the sense either of freedom to act or prodigality in giving : what Wilekin wants is that she give herself . |