Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Well now , Barney , ye may think yerself an old man but I do n't think of meself as such ! ’ he exclaimed testily .
2 ‘ You 've got all my money and I 've had no dinner meself for three days , ’ I said .
3 ‘ Just go and lose yerself for a week , son .
4 I do n't think we need worry ourselves about little Miss Harker . ’
5 The SS will advertise our willingness to inform ourselves about the needs of industry .
6 ‘ Know yourself became a form of self-examination , interrogating ourselves about our own nature .
7 So we busy ourselves about the house or go on holiday in much the same way as we do our jobs .
8 The separation also resolves the problem of remorse when we tax ourselves about an unphilosophical action we may have taken .
9 Now is the time for us all to inform ourselves about the problem to make sure that we all have a part in the making of that decision ’ .
10 Match-wise , Botha admitted : ‘ We have to do something ourselves about the number of penalties we are conceding .
11 In the light of that brutality I do n't think we need concern ourselves about gentility , spurious or otherwise .
12 We should be asking ourselves about the character of individuals which are being produced by the family forms that we have today and about law 's part in creating the domestic group .
13 One day when the terrible moment comes and it is bound to come when we shall be talking of the Serb national catastrophe , when we shall be questioning ourselves about who was responsible for it and how it came about that we are the last nation in Europe to be surrounded by such enemies and such hatred , then many of the great brains of the Academy will find themselves in the dock if they live to see the day .
14 I love the English countryside , though I think we all sometimes deceive ourselves about its idyllic past .
15 ( One occasionally encounters a burst of inanity of Nobel proportions , as in this : " Our capacity for deceiving ourselves about the operation of the brain is almost limitless , mainly because what we can report is only a minute fraction of what goes on in our head .
16 One common reply to the first two sceptical arguments is to say that we have no reason to worry ourselves about them .
17 Derek and I will organize ourselves about the transcription machine and
18 And that 's all right ; but let's not deceive ourselves about the artifice involved .
19 Already we were beginning to talk among ourselves about the feasibility of a Hungarian-type reform to replace the central planning mechanism which Stalin had created in the 1930s .
20 We just thought the T-shirts were funny , and we had them done because we were absolutely shitting ourselves about playing . ’
21 We just thought the T-shirts were funny , and we had them done because we were absolutely shitting ourselves about playing . ’
22 I do n't think we need to worry ourselves about people being offended .
23 Well , we 've talked ourselves about the consequences about of that role on the catering operation which is available .
24 Not much else is needed to prompt a visit than a map and some route descriptions , so thus it was that we found ourselves between the Vénéon and the Etançons on the campsite at La Bérade in August .
25 We saw this ourselves during the filming of a television sequence on the laying behaviour of the cuckoo .
26 ‘ For you know , we are obliged to try to amuse ourselves during the hunt . ’
27 We actor kings , you know , We Shers and Simon Callows , write our books About ourselves for one good single reason .
28 Whether it 's to reward ourselves for an achievement , or to lift our spirits , many women find little can compete with the rustle of tissue paper and the thrill of slipping into a pristine new outfit .
29 THERE WERE eight of us who had voluntarily submitted ourselves for treatment at the clinic : two lawyers , two Italian businessmen , two bankers , a fashion designer and me .
30 But we may have to prepare ourselves for his absence .
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