Example sentences of "and [verb] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're an idiot if you submit an article or a piece of any kind to a magazine , to a newspaper , without actually having looked at it , and studied it , and asked yourselves the question , ‘ What sort of house style is it ? |
| 2 | The notorious Dr Crippen , he pointed out , in fact murdered his assertive wife only because he was too vain simply to run away from her and make himself a target for scorn . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't you know it 's an offence to lie down on the King 's highway and make yourself a danger to passing traffic ? ’ |
| 4 | Go and make yourself a first . |
| 5 | you sell them it and make yourself a |
| 6 | Of course I 'm coming back , go and get your slippers on and make yourself a couple of bits of toast |
| 7 | And when Mrs Amabel Dallam remembered to pay her for all those wedding chemises she might just take a few shillings to a certain bazaar in Leeds where she 'd heard good dress-lengths were to be had at bargain prices and make herself a new dress for Christmas . |
| 8 | I am not dying , no , I have suffered a terrible nightmare , but I am here , in my room , and the night must be far gone , it must be almost morning , I shall go downstairs and make myself a first pot of tea . |
| 9 | I woke feeling unwell and I decided to go downstairs and make myself a cup of tea . |
| 10 | Thought well I had this fire on so , I gets up to go through and make myself a l you know a drink before going to bed and I put my 'jamas on and dressing gown . |
| 11 | If you do n't mind , I will go and make myself an omelette . |
| 12 | When , a few hours later , Harriet got up to go downstairs and make herself a cup of tea , she was surprised to find Liza 's bedroom door open . |
| 13 | One morning I strolled home from the supermarket at the end of the road and made myself a cup of coffee . |
| 14 | Then she moved quietly into the kitchen and made herself a mug of tea . |
| 15 | She let herself into the house , and made herself a cup of tea . |
| 16 | Wendy ran after her child but her spiked heels slowed her , so she gave up and came back home and made herself a cup of coffee and read the stories in the back of her magazine . |
| 17 | She tried the back door and found it open , and going in she turned on some lights and made herself a cup of coffee . |
| 18 | ‘ Should be , should n't there ? ’ said Joe , who 'd put his new jersey on and given himself an expensive look . |
| 19 | We have enforced questionable criteria , appealed to divine authority and given ourselves the right to make our own interpretation of it . |
| 20 | She had learned as a girl and given herself a week 's holiday for a thirtieth birthday present . |
| 21 | Why do you stay in Sècheron and deny yourself the pleasures of Geneva ? ’ |
| 22 | The children are going to have them at home anyway , so if the teachers deny themselves this extra resource , and deny themselves the experience which the children can bring , I think they 're cutting themselves off from a tremendous source of encouragement and motivation . |
| 23 | I do n't think he meant me harm , but somehow I hit the corner of the wardrobe and got myself a black eye and one or two other bruises … ’ |
| 24 | ‘ And got myself a bump on the back of the head for my pains . ’ |
| 25 | I went to take Wendy 's laundry round Tuesday night I forget why I was , I do n't know , well I did n't call but I just drove on and got myself a says Jim you 're early tonight , quarter past ten . |
| 26 | Right , that 's it , that 'll do , I wo n't go any further and I can get the other things in well we had er , we had an aluminium friend , a double glazed enormous window over our landing and it was , the aluminium was so cold and it was conden there was so much condensation that we had a new window P V C put in , but I tried to sell this other window , cos it was beautiful you see , nothing wrong with it except you know , but nobody wanted it and I kept it and I had it for about two years standing outside and then I thought I can use that and I cut , it was a three section , three lots of glass all in one , cut down , divide it into two and one , and got myself a plant house under the erm |
| 27 | So he went and got himself a commission before conscription became law . |
| 28 | Peter left school and got himself a sales job but he was discovered stealing from a customer . |
| 29 | Mitch offered , and got himself a glare . |
| 30 | He put the phone down and went and got himself a malt whisky , a squat , powerful-looking man with white hair who wore steel-rimmed spectacles . |