Example sentences of "[adj] that [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Add to all this that they endow themselves with rightness and send their mutual corroboration cascading through all levels of our information systems . |
| 2 | Essentially , it was a calculative attitude and it was clear that they managed themselves in the sense that they saw work as being a means to their personal ends , which might be owning a boarding house , for example . |
| 3 | Alexei 's expression was anguished , and it was clear that he wished himself elsewhere . |
| 4 | Innocent had not controlled French aspirations but he had made it clear that he saw himself as the arbiter of Europe and John 's cession of his kingdom in 1213 considerably strengthened the pope 's hand . |
| 5 | He makes it repeatedly clear that he addresses himself to the Greeks who have little knowledge of Roman institutions ; but on the other hand he refers to Roman readers ( 6.5 1 .3–8 ) and is quite obviously looking at them over his shoulder . |
| 6 | She felt a deep , sensual pleasure as she held his leaping , quivering manhood in check , but the heat of him was so dangerously exciting that she arched herself in mute supplication , begging him to give her the release that her body craved . |
| 7 | Mostly I 'm sorry that I hurt myself . |
| 8 | It was in vain that she told herself he was a stranger , a man who had probably by now forgotten her . |
| 9 | Shields , of Carnac Crescent , Inverness , was said to have felt so guilty that he gave himself up to police after selling some of the haul to pay for drink . |
| 10 | The memory was so strong that he lost himself in it . |
| 11 | It 's not so much that they undersell themselves in the UK , but they have to really pull their fingers out in the US . |
| 12 | He was coughing so much that he made himself sick . |
| 13 | I can not paint it as beautifully as that , but it absorbs me so much that I let myself go , never thinking of a single rule … |
| 14 | He wants me to hate myself so much that I destroy myself . |
| 15 | In the late 1850s Stringfellow took up the new art of photography , becoming so proficient that he advertised himself as a professional portrait photographer , with a studio in the High Street of Chard . |
| 16 | He was delighted that everyone enjoyed themselves . |
| 17 | The dream can seem so real that he believes himself to be wide awake . |
| 18 | Sometimes the manner is sly and teasing , at others so challengingly straight-faced that you find yourself half-believing it ( MACARONI : When prepared in the Italian style , is served with the fingers ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , I 'm glad that I behaved myself , then , ’ he said , his face clearing suddenly . |
| 20 | He cried so hard that he rained himself empty . |
| 21 | He will also learn to clarify his ends ; originally he saw no further than immediate goals , the satisfaction of hunger and relief from nausea ; later he conceptualizes the nourishing of the body by food and the danger to health of over-eating , and it is towards or away from these that he finds himself spontaneously pulled . |
| 22 | It is very unlikely that Francis had been summoned to Rome : much more likely that he brought himself there seeing the opportunity of such a gathering . |
| 23 | So when you 're planning your retirement , make sure that you give yourself a reasonable standard of living in terms of income . |
| 24 | That 's right trying to find work these days can be demanding and extremely frustrating so you want to make sure that you give yourself the best chance of getting a job and one way to help is to do a good application form and know how to handle yourself in an interview . |
| 25 | When you 're preparing for the interview make sure that you test yourself and have good answers to basic questions like : |
| 26 | ‘ Maybe not , but if I were you , Miss Williams , I 'd make sure that I confined myself to facts in future , and the most pressing one of all is the fact that someone in this town is annoyed with you ! ’ |
| 27 | If he is an experienced gardener , you have to make sure that he sets himself achievable targets , and does not become over-ambitious . |
| 28 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was in 1978 that he overreached himself with a little plan to sell illicit diamonds bought by his askaris from a diamond dealer in Lesotho . |