Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She half expected Guy to wrench her face back up to his and braced herself to resist , but to her astonishment he laughed softly . |
| 2 | It was n't until I heard Dennis say , ‘ I 'll just fetch up another bottle of the Hunter Valley ’ that it was borne in on me that the woman who was frenching me and bringing herself off on my belt buckle was none other than Karen Parsons , the wife of Dennis Parsons , who was currently six feet away on the other side of the dining-room door and closing rapidly . |
| 3 | In those early pre-TV Saturday afternoon matinee days at the Ideal cinema in Carrickfergus , only two movies broke the mould for me and lodged themselves forever in the imagination : The Wizard of Oz and Darby O'Gill and the Little People . |
| 4 | ‘ Would you like to come back to my cottage with me and clean yourself and perhaps have a drink of lemonade and a biscuit ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ In that case , perhaps you 'd better just pay off your debt to me and find yourself a job as a salesgirl in some shop . |
| 6 | Galatians 2.20 must be among the most marvellous words of the Bible : ‘ I have been crucified with Christ ; it is no longer I who live , but Christ who lives in me ; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God , who loved me and gave himself for me . ’ |
| 7 | May we all say with St Paul in Galatians 2.20 : ‘ I have been crucified with Christ ; it is no longer I who live , but Christ who lives in me ; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God , who loved me and gave himself for me . ’ |
| 8 | The truth that ‘ Jesus loved me and gave himself for me , ’ was an incredible transformation for him . |
| 9 | Trust Christ alone and testify like Paul ‘ the son of God who loved ME and gave himself for ME . ’ |
| 10 | Pylons strode down from it , past a settlement and a water-tower on the plain due south of me and lost themselves in the haze to the west . |
| 11 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 12 | At last year 's AAA Championships she turned up , found me and introduced herself . |
| 13 | Will you come up to London with me and see yourself ? ’ |
| 14 | God has a way on retreats such as this of bringing home to us the challenge of a first-order question : ‘ Do you love me in the way Mary loved me and allowed herself to be used for my mission ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Would n't it be more sensible to sell your share to me and buy yourself a smaller place ? ’ |
| 16 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 17 | I gave Becky to them and lowered myself into the water . |
| 18 | Sports heroes and pop stars provide images for teenagers , who may imitate them and style themselves upon them . |
| 19 | Did the elderly have minds like old wardrobes stuffed to overflowing with useless memories and take them out sometimes and look at them and ask themselves why they were there ? |
| 20 | ‘ I wanted to write , but when you study English literature it paralyses you from being a creative writer , because what you read is so wonderful all the time , you feel you ca n't possibly pit yourself against them and try yourself . ’ |
| 21 | Remember , though , that badgering agents is quite useless ; if they want to come they will come , but telephoning them and overselling yourself can be just as useless as not letting them know that you 're alive and working . |
| 22 | I refused to let the nurse wield her scissors on them and put myself through gyrations of a one-legged contortionist to get them off whole . |
| 23 | Despite the number of marriages broken by divorce , it seems that most young people make their vows in good faith , intend to keep them and see themselves as committed to the other for life . |
| 24 | Simon was convinced that the only way to gain power over his nightmares , to rid himself of them forever , was to defy them and steep himself in further acts of intimidation and violence . |
| 25 | Now trick films were the sort of first visual magic that the cinema could produce and erm these , these films you would see for example a motor car disintegrate and then reassemble itself , this kind of thing , people 's clothes change , drop off and a new set of garments would come on , all this sort of thing , people 's faces would change , their environment would change , their chairs would collapse under them and rebuild themselves , this sort of thing which could be done relatively easily once you knew how to do it . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought I could control my feelings , have an exciting affair with you and keep myself intact . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm pleading with you and mocking myself at the same time : how can you bear to resist ? ’ |
| 28 | Each time I saw you coming dancing towards me along a sunny street , moving lightly on your toes like a boxer , with your slightly duck-toed run that I , a turned-out-toes walker , found so male and so sexy , my heart jumped in my throat and I wanted to run towards you and throw myself into your arms . |
| 29 | ‘ Has anyone ever come up to you and introduced himself like that before ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Has anyone ever come up to you and introduced himself like that before ? ’ |