Example sentences of "that [pron] be [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am already aware that I am beginning myself to use the acceptable university jargon that saturates the material that is presented within these diploma courses . |
| 2 | The fact that I am conning myself , and know it , does not , strange to say , seem to render the technique ineffective . |
| 3 | The thought pleases me but what they think is irrelevant really ; it 's Marcus that I 'm saving myself for . |
| 4 | ‘ I tell yer , Joe old cock , my bleedin' trouble is that I 'm misunderstood meself , I been sufferin' misunderstandin' all me life . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not sure that I 'm making myself clear , ’ said the alchemist . |
| 6 | He had no idea that I was prostituting myself in the cause of Jean-Claude 's success . |
| 7 | He said that I was killing myself , getting injured and mashing myself up for nothing . |
| 8 | I would dip blanket after blanket in boiling water , wring them out almost without realising that I was scalding myself , take off the old strips of saturated cloth , wrap the new ones round each leg and tuck them into the corners of affected muscles , but half the time not really knowing what I was doing . |
| 9 | ‘ Maybe she does not want him to think that she is surrendering herself too easily , ’ he suggested . |
| 10 | She twisted over on to her side , and glared fiercely at him , knowing that this was what she should n't do , that she was humiliating herself , that her face was red and puffy and ugly . |
| 11 | One client referred for counselling eventually admitted that she was starving herself as a way of preventing conception ; she did not want another child , but her husband had pressurised her to become pregnant . |
| 12 | But not too many of those who reckoned she should be pitting herself alongside the professionals recognised that she was putting herself through a far tougher ordeal by playing in a junior championship where she had everything to lose , nothing to gain . |
| 13 | Her decision was extremely painful , for Beatrice believed ( as it happened incorrectly ) that she was committing herself to a celibate life for ever : |
| 14 | She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life . |
| 15 | What does matter is that you 're wearing yourself to a shadow to make a bare livelihood — and my hands are tied , ’ he said violently , looking down at them as though he longed to tear off the invisible fetters . |
| 16 | In other words a good mirror signal manoeuvre routine , however you apply it but in a particular order , which gives a discipline , so that you 're keeping yourselves out of the problems that other people may give you if you allow them to . |
| 17 | Erm , but as I say it 's a good thing that you 're doing yourselves . |
| 18 | Not simply because it shows that you are enjoying yourself at that moment but because it actually contributes to your physical and mental health . |
| 19 | Except to know by your absence that you are enjoying yourself as you should be . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But I suppose that you are consoling yourself after the fashion of a fool who lives in the slums . |
| 21 | Above all remember that you are selling yourself , so present yourself in a confident fashion but without boasting . |
| 22 | ( This is n't to say that twisting an ankle always means that you are immobilising yourself . |
| 23 | Throwing yourself at men , men of gross natures , is a still-greater act of self-abuse , and I can not warn you too strongly that you are placing yourself in the very gravest danger . |
| 24 | However , the probabilities are that you are fooling yourself . |
| 25 | I , I really feel two pound fifty is low for the quality of , of play that they 're seeing I mean other amateur groups not that we 're comparing ourselves , but they certainly charge more than us and quite honestly the end product on some of them is not up to our end product . |
| 26 | Naturally I hope not , and the probability is that we 're exercising ourselves over nothing . |
| 27 | It is entirely clear from the documents in front of us in the treaty that we are enabling ourselves to have the option to opt in . |
| 28 | We should be careful not to look only at our friends and colleagues whose style may have been affected by the same paddle strokes that we are studying ourselves . |
| 29 | We must constantly compare the copy with the reality shown to us by experienced paddlers and not simply look hard at a wide selection of paddlers and not simply look at our own friends and colleagues who may have been influenced by the same paddle strokes that we are studying ourselves . |
| 30 | Our terms of reference made it clear that we were to concern ourselves with the English curriculum for all pupils , whatever their mother tongue . |