Example sentences of "[pron] gave [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home … |
| 2 | I gave myself to him completely , both as a human being and as an artist . |
| 3 | In a ghost town , silent and deserted as the Marie Celeste , I gave myself a history lesson . |
| 4 | I gave myself a minute or two to get my nerves under control and ventured outside the cloud , briefly at first then more confidently when it was apparent that the danger had passed . |
| 5 | I gave myself away to everybody : fat , high , low , ugly , perfumed and badly-smelling . ’ |
| 6 | So I gave myself the day off . ’ |
| 7 | I gave myself a pat on the back though and carried on through Cross Rift into Selenite Passage where the rock sparkles with the glassy selenite running through the walls . |
| 8 | I was out for four and a half months , then I gave myself up because I was carrying my daughter , Sasha . |
| 9 | No answer from me — if there was an Umpire , he would know what was in my heart — instead I gave myself orders , pumping myself up with little pecks of the head : Concentrate . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So I gave myself just half an hour to get to the theatre and prepare for curtain up — and phoned home at each interval . |
| 12 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
| 13 | The question slipped out before I gave myself time to consider the wisdom of it . |
| 14 | I had already acquired the address from the ‘ yellow pages ’ and estimated that it was a ten mile drive , thus I gave myself half an hour to account for delays . |
| 15 | ‘ I gave myself away ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I gave myself two years to win promotion when I arrived at Ayresome Park last summer . |
| 17 | I gave myself ones for like erm like ability like I know I 'm good at it but effort was like three , you know , I 'm below a but they , they 're stupid because it was either above average or below average and what 's just average , it was okay , I 've been really okay . |
| 18 | Jesus , who gave himself for you |
| 19 | Like many of the heroes of his novels — notably Moira , recently reissued in English by Quartet Books — he is someone who gave himself over to pleasure in his youth , travelling endlessly in search of new sensations , both enslaved to sensuality and contemptuous of it — in his own words , ‘ crucified by sex ’ . |
| 20 | Hercegovina achieved a degree of autonomy under Stevan Vukšić , who gave himself the title Duke ( 'Herceg' ) of St Sava ( 1448 ) in honour of the Serbian royal saint of the thirteenth century . |
| 21 | Almighty God , our heavenly Father , infinite in wisdom , love and power : have compassion on those for whom we pray ; and help us to use all suffering in the cause of your kingdom , through him who gave himself for us on the cross , Jesus Christ , Your Son and our Lord , |
| 22 | Markus Wolf , the former head of East German intelligence from 1958 to 1987 who gave himself up in 1991 [ see p. 38447 ] , was charged on Sept. 24 with treason , espionage and corruption . |
| 23 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 24 | Jorge Luis Ochoa , joint leader of the Medellín drug cartel , surrendered to the authorities on Jan. 15 in response to government assurances in September and October including a guarantee that drug traffickers who gave themselves up would not be extradited to the United States [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ] . |
| 25 | The measures would come into force on the expiry of the two-month amnesty to suspected activists who gave themselves up [ see p. 39168 ] . |
| 26 | ‘ You gave yourself that impression , ’ he commented , without bothering to look at her . |
| 27 | But it 's so chancy that way uh and I do n't think either if you gave y'self the role or y'know , the title , say , of school counsellor or whatever that you … it would work . |
| 28 | She could feel the great flight of the dragon and sensed that she was high in air and travelling fast towards the sunset ; she could feel the great muscles of the dragon 's wings send ripplings down the stomach walls and she gave herself over to death . |
| 29 | Now , as from the times of childhood , she rode Fenna , seated in the deep hollow of the meeting place of scaled neck , veined wing and rising battlement of spine ; a throne protected from the great gale of his flight , as safe as the rocky cradle secures the foetal child , leaning back towards the bumpy spine as she had leant before , she gave herself over to their journey . |
| 30 | It was no less astonishing that she should find room on her emaciated body to engrave in it , by her discipline , the wounds of the son of God … she gave herself such blows that her blood sprinkled the wails … and as she practised this penance daily every night she reopened her bleeding wounds by making new ones … |