Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government is fond of pointing out that output rose 20% between 1981 and 1991 , but it is setting the starting point in the trough of a recession to suit itself . |
| 2 | A fairly high level and we 've got a bit to go ourselves I think . |
| 3 | I was n't sleepy , so I decided to drive round London a bit to tire myself . ’ |
| 4 | I 've only to close my eyes and relax a bit to imagine myself back in Africa — except that the indefinable Eastern smell is missing . ’ |
| 5 | I felt a bit gutted myself when I looked at it . " |
| 6 | I get a bit frightened myself sometimes — we all do , as no doubt you realise ; but you help an awful lot to restore my courage . |
| 7 | With the light , it feels colder and I run down the road a bit to warm myself up . |
| 8 | Having gained the initial advantage , the company can then price at a level to give itself a profit but still deter rivals , who face higher costs from entering . |
| 9 | In away this is a decision to present oneself with a problem arid then to set about solving that problem . |
| 10 | That was exactly what Emily had felt each week asking for her housekeeping ; now she could work out a budget to suit herself . |
| 11 | He picked up an old ornament : a serpent winding itself around a globe ; an appropriate image . |
| 12 | One moment she was directing Maria in the making of knead cakes , the next she was taken with a sensation of wishing to bear down , no pains preceding it , and had a struggle to get herself to bed and to have Ferdinando and the midwife sent for . |
| 13 | Garland has argued that the reason why the early , biological positivists had the extraordinary ambition of arriving at a theory of the causes of crime where both the theory and the category of behaviour it was explaining had nothing to do with the criminal law , was that they were also engaged in a struggle to assert themselves as a ‘ new ’ profession of penal experts against the ‘ old ’ , legal profession . |
| 14 | After travelling around the continent to a constellation of cities linked by who her father knew , it was a relief to cross the Channel alone and to arrive at a place where it was not generally such a struggle to make herself understood . |
| 15 | The unions are still engaged in a struggle to establish themselves in the available ‘ space ’ , a struggle that has very largely been resolved in the case of the BR unions where it was in any case mainly confined to representation of the footplate grades . |
| 16 | Oxford Polytechnic , deriving from a further education institution with poor facilities , had a struggle to establish itself with the CNAA . |
| 17 | The very activity is also an expression of faith in the tradition , of a willingness to understand oneself and the world in its terms and to carry on the argument , which in the area with which we are concerned is inescapably a normative argument , within the general framework defining the tradition . |
| 18 | Because the relationship of the two lines within the couplet is not predetermined , the reader is more fully engaged in the process of interpretation , a more active participant in the construction of meaning , than when a text presents itself in more straightforward linear fashion . |
| 19 | Cynics — who adopt their attitude as a defence to protect themselves against their hopes being dashed — may ridicule you . |
| 20 | I have a fancy to show myself as far as Newport and Cardiff , while they lose themselves in the mountains of Maelienydd and Brecon . ’ |
| 21 | It would seem that a vicar exposed himself to a young lady of tender years on Devil 's Bridge sometime in the 1800s . |
| 22 | Seljalandsfoss is a ponytail of a waterfall throwing itself clear of the rim of its cliff to look like a 1950s American college girl shaking her head . |
| 23 | DIPLOMACY was plunged into darkness and officials were stranded in lifts after a snake coiled itself round power cables and blew all the fuses in a government conference centre in northern Tanzania . |
| 24 | DIPLOMATS were stranded in lifts when a snake coiled itself round power cables and blew the fuses at a conference in Tanzania . |
| 25 | In a letter to The Times , published on 9 May 1931 , a correspondent signing himself ‘ Old Brightonian ’ recalled an occasion when Woods was bowling in a school match and the wicket-keeper , standing some ten yards back from the wicket , was unable to stop a ball which flashed by him to the boundary but was able to field the stump which the ball had knocked out of the ground . |
| 26 | If you tend to forget back-up reasons in the surprise of hearing yourself make a proposal or suggestion , then use a link to remind yourself : ‘ And there are two reasons for this . ’ |
| 27 | " Look , " his mother had said , making him watch with her while a tide spent itself . |
| 28 | When I inquired after the baptism he said he had been mistaken , it had been yesterday , but that there would be another in a few days and , anyway , who needed a baptism to enjoy themselves ? |
| 29 | Strange said : " Athletes who are in the public eye have a responsibility to conduct themselves in a manner which can set a positive example . |
| 30 | You have a responsibility to familiarise yourself with the fire and bomb instructions and the procedures for reporting assaults . |