Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 5 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 6 | In 1686 he became a London alderman , sitting for Broad Street ; but he discharged himself the following year , probably in anticipation of the purging of Anglicans from the bench . |
| 7 | The BBC again found itself the unwilling accomplice of the advertisers . |
| 8 | Secondly , their eyes are on eternal truth , of which each party deems itself the sole defender . |
| 9 | She gulped , barely capable of denying herself the inevitable . |
| 10 | Now ecologists found themselves the veritable gurus of our age . |
| 11 | I found myself the only ‘ other ’ . |
| 12 | By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate . |
| 13 | Durkin soon made himself the principal object of attraction . |
| 14 | DAVID Sinclair made himself the ideal employee when he filled in an application form for a sales job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 15 | He had also made himself the leading authority on fossil fish , taking over Cuvier 's work . |
| 16 | But now Mr Gorbachev has made himself the unpalatable alternative . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the local historian will find it useful to think of his chosen parish or neighbourhood in terms of broad categories such as ‘ open-field arable ’ or ‘ wood-pasture ’ or ‘ fenland edge ’ and to set himself the fundamental task of understanding how people adapted themselves to their physical environment . |
| 18 | The Shah went in there and paused in front of the graben image of the ruthless and brilliant army officer who had seized power in 1921 , and ended the Qajar dynasty , proclaimed himself the new Shah , the first of the Pahlavi dynasty , and begin to recreate Ira . |
| 19 | Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week |
| 20 | The prospect of1993 and the abolition of customs controls between EC countries has spurred the Italian State to set itself the awe-inspiring task of cataloguing a further two million items of its national heritage within two years in execution of its duty to ‘ care for Italy 's landscape , history and cultural heritage ’ ( to quote the Constitution ) . |
| 21 | It was on this basis of this rationality , embodied in modern science and technology , that cette vielle Europe had triumphed throughout the world , had made itself the universal point of reference . |
| 22 | The communist-controlled north under Kim 11-sung proclaimed itself the Democratic People 's Republic , the capitalist south under Syngman Rhee became the Republic of Korea . |
| 23 | She wondered rather wildly for a moment if they would both refuse to let go and imagined herself the unwilling participant in an unlikely tug of war , but Bernard took one look at Alain and released her . |
| 24 | Do not just give yourself the whole week off . |
| 25 | I ca n't give myself the great happiness of promising to be yours — because I am sure I ought not to ! ’ |
| 26 | A good way of familiarising yourself with the principle of intervallic interchange is to set yourself the following task , both on and away from your guitar . |
| 27 | Two Serb enclaves in Croatia , the Serbian Autonomous Region of Krajina and the Autonomous Region of Slavonia , Baranja and Western Srem , proclaimed themselves the Serbian Republic of Krajina on Dec. 19 . |
| 28 | He argues that a demand which emanated from the earnings of export staples became itself the driving force behind even greater efforts to balance the increasing import of desired English manufactured goods . |
| 29 | The 499-member Congress held its constituent session on March 11-12 , when it declared itself the constitutional representative of the Estonian people and passed resolutions calling for restoration of Estonia 's independent statehood and the withdrawal of Soviet troops stationed in the republic . |
| 30 | The Hexagonale regional grouping ( comprising Austria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Italy , Poland and Yugoslavia — see p. 38508 ) decided in Vienna on Jan. 28 to rename itself the Central European Initiative with immediate effect ; Yugoslavia did not participate in the meeting but Slovenia and Croatia were represented . |