Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anger is a reaction to other people and to ourselves that stems from two cycles : |
| 2 | Once there , we lifted ourselves and looked at one another , both of us laughing , trudging grass-stained to the top again . |
| 3 | Why has this major change in attitudes come about , and why all this concern about health in an affluent Western world where we can congratulate ourselves and count on our good fortune in having all the benefits of modern medicine to protect us unlike the peoples of the developing world ? |
| 4 | We must learn to hold ourselves and move with an economy of effort , using no more than the appropriate amount of energy for any activity . |
| 5 | 40 major London road schemes abandoned ; ‘ Important to commit ourselves as opposed to roads ’ |
| 6 | Here a question may be raised as to just what we mean when we think of ourselves as plunged by the twentieth century into a chaos of relativism . |
| 7 | Looking forward , and viewing ourselves as contributing to the development of provisionally held theories , it seems to offer no more than the hope that we might make a contributions even if we do not really understand what , how , or to what . |
| 8 | Sadly he deteriorated very quickly until he could no longer care for himself or communicate in any understandable way . |
| 9 | It seems to me that it is impossible to say that in carrying out that exercise he misdirected himself or came to a conclusion to which he could not reasonably have come in the exercise of his discretion . |
| 10 | It is of course a very difficult subject to talk about and many families who know or suspect that a relative has killed himself or tried to , are ashamed and refuse to talk about it , or make up all kinds of stories to cover the fact up . |
| 11 | So anything that the landlo er the rich peasant owns and works himself or cultivates by hired labour you 're going to allow to keep . |
| 12 | He was not in any sense a vain man , but he had a conceit of himself that came from the knowledge that he dominated every quarter that he occupied . |
| 13 | It is , however , Falstaff himself that lies at the heart of the opera and Colin Rees proved a master of the role . |
| 14 | I can imagine him saying ‘ Ah luv thee , but dunna ma'e me feel sma' ’ but it 's hard for me to picture the careful explanation and vindication of himself that comes after . |
| 15 | If this was the case the caveman 's body would need to be ready to run away very quickly , or enable him to try to defend himself if caught by the tiger . |
| 16 | Steve acted swiftly , excused himself and sped after her . |
| 17 | He stopped and had a cup of tea himself and explained to the Covent Garden porters , who wanted to know what he 'd got in the back , that it was the Sleeping Beauty . |
| 18 | Constance detected a change in the atmosphere as Giancarlo excused himself and walked down the steps to greet his last guest . |
| 19 | And when he come into the pub he hears the village lads singing along with the machine and he has a go himself and gets to talking with everyone . |
| 20 | He has a tremendous respect for Fowler , adding : ‘ If he applied himself and packed in his job as a taxman he could be the best in the world . |
| 21 | Jesus , our holy representative , takes our sin upon himself and identifies with it . |
| 22 | He stretched himself and looked at his watch . |
| 23 | • Announcing his decision to ‘ unretire ’ himself and return to the Williams team next year , Nigel Mansell issued a wordy statement which posed many more questions than it answered . |
| 24 | Worse was to come though for Horsham as following a fifty fifty challenge on the edge of the Abingdon area , striker Paul Walker injured himself and had to be stretchered off . |
| 25 | We started the gradual process of bringing him back into work , hoping that he had been through all his disasters in one go : first he cut himself and had to be stitched , and then he got kicked on the hock . |
| 26 | But then he restrained himself and said in a quiet voice , ‘ Know anythin' about sailin' ? ’ |
| 27 | In such a case , the State will pay the owner the value he has established himself and presented to the Federal National Heritage Service or Custom Officers . |
| 28 | He got up slowly from his chair to stretch himself and went to the window , overlooking the back car lot . |
| 29 | He tidied up , damped the fire down , undressed down to his underwear , took a cushion from the armchair to use as a pillow , used his overcoat to cover himself and went to sleep on the rug beside the hearth . |
| 30 | On the ground , when they had left the parked plane , Myeloski excused himself and went to the men 's room . |