Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pn reflx] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum says you 'll bump yerself up an' down one day till yer 'ead comes orf . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is the younger age range to whom we must make ourselves more attractive and appealing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose we should consider ourselves jolly lucky , ’ Peacock said . |
| 9 | We believe that men and women together must free ourselves so as to be able to construct a new form of society . |
| 10 | The survivalist culture of the ghetto insists that , instead of leading ever fuller lives , we should strip ourselves down for action and retaliation : it 's a culture fascinated by war games , fitness , one-upmanship . |
| 11 | We can get drunk , we can excite ourselves sexually until we achieve an orgasm . |
| 12 | We will confine ourselves here to mentioning just four of the works on display . |
| 13 | We will confine ourselves here to the state-owned case , leaving regulation to chapter 5 . |
| 14 | We shall confine ourselves here to the statutory requirements which must be observed . |
| 15 | In this section we shall confine ourselves mainly to inorganic nomenclature and leave a more systematic treatment of organic nomenclature until chapter 17 . |
| 16 | On that score , the Melrose forward can count himself very unlucky . |
| 17 | ‘ Why should a man hang himself here ? ’ |
| 18 | Sometimes , when in funds , as he thought of it , he would spruce himself up and visit the West End where occasionally he would come across a wartime crony in a small , ex-officers ' club in South Kensington . |
| 19 | The Dalai Lama had said on March 10 that unless China responded soon to his proposals made in June 1988 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg , he would consider himself not bound by the five-point peace plan , although he remained committed to negotiations with China . |
| 20 | ‘ I am a bit scared of him , ’ admitted Angela ; ‘ but he might behave himself now for spoiling my Gnome costume . |
| 21 | He believed in doing , and came into his own when he was free to renounce the responsibility of reasoning anything out and could trust himself entirely to his own reflexes . |
| 22 | ‘ As the intention of the Society is to form Veterinary Physicians and Surgeons intended to be dispersed throughout the Kingdom to exercise usefully their art , the Professor will teach the residing pupils only the most important difference between the two medicines — that of the human body , and that of Cattle — he will confine himself strictly to the teaching of the Veterinary Science . ’ |
| 23 | A real detective superintendent investigating a murder will confine himself largely to facts and only at the height of questioning someone he is almost certain is his quarry is he likely to go into motivation as a way , as often as not , of bring about a final confession . |
| 24 | ‘ At least he can shave himself now I gather . ’ |
| 25 | I think he 'll enjoy himself here . |
| 26 | Then he could go out and enjoy himself unashamedly and leave serious , studious Doctor Jekyll to get on with his important , life-saving work . ’ |
| 27 | Notice that Paul does not tie himself legalistically to the details of Jesus 's words . |
| 28 | He said — he said he should n't know himself really , but one of the people there , the tour leader , told him and told him not to say anything , and Cedric ’ — she breathed deeply again — ‘ told me , and told me not to say anything . ’ |
| 29 | A pig-headed brute who could jump himself out of anything , like a cat , but did n't always choose to , and did n't always take me with him . |
| 30 | A CAP designed only to promote efficient farming would abolish itself forthwith . |