Example sentences of "give [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've often speculated since on what would have happened if we 'd just given ourselves up at this point . |
| 2 | The solution is not to stop training , racing and getting up in the morning , but to make a few subtle adaptations , like allowing ourselves rest days we should have given ourselves years ago . |
| 3 | In fact this has been a bit over ambitious , very pleased with ourselves were n't we , perhaps we have n't given ourselves enough ? |
| 4 | We have enforced questionable criteria , appealed to divine authority and given ourselves the right to make our own interpretation of it . |
| 5 | if we 've given ourselves a budget of four thousand pounds and we 've ear |
| 6 | ‘ We 've given ourselves a chance to finish in the top three , a tremendous achievement for a team that was tipped for relegation at the start of the season . |
| 7 | The fright we 've given ourselves in recent months will have done us some good if it helps us adjust society back in the direction of common purposes and co-operative disciplines . |
| 8 | And truly it was no longer , as I had once thought , a matter of a star courting success by adopting the affectations of a prima donna , but of a man who has given himself up to a trance . |
| 9 | He could of course have taken the easy option and given himself up , or laid up along the coast somewhere until the advancing Eighth Army caught up with him . |
| 10 | And her father 's answer to the question given himself had been : those tests at the secretarial college were making his daughter nervy ; and the quicker they were over the better . |
| 11 | At last he saw that , if he was ever to eliminate his old habits , then he must refuse to do anything at all until he had given himself the directions . |
| 12 | In the political parlance of 1992 , I suppose it might be said that Mr Platt has given himself a double whammy . |
| 13 | He had given himself up when he saw his photofit picture on BBC 's Crimewatch . |
| 14 | In The Hague with Sien he had given himself over to light , like a Myshkin who was all love , meek as a lamb , becoming the woman 's servant and in this roundabout fashion returning himself to infancy . |
| 15 | ‘ He has given himself a hard race , ’ said Josh Gifford , but if he recovers quickly the seven-year-old will go for the H and T Walker Chase at Ascot next weekend . |
| 16 | I thought of the Thursday Red had given himself off . |
| 17 | ‘ Should be , should n't there ? ’ said Joe , who 'd put his new jersey on and given himself an expensive look . |
| 18 | The Word was made flesh in Jesus Christ ; God has given himself to be understood in our terms and on our level ; and even in these terms and on that level it is the reality of God that is given for us to understand . |
| 19 | If Roberts had not given himself up , the offence would have remained undetected . |
| 20 | Having started the design ball rolling and given himself some idea of cast requirements , Barry moved on to his foremost task that of constructing the camera script . |
| 21 | Joseph Usher , Tace 's hero , had hidden himself in a chamber of the mine but had been driven out by hunger and thirst and , having given himself up , been taken away to trial and execution . |
| 22 | The closeness she felt was more than the joining of their bodies ; it was all-encompassing , and shared , for in taking her he had also given himself . |
| 23 | On the same day Schalck-Golodkowski ( who had given himself up to the West Berlin authorities on Dec. 7 — see p. 37107 ) was released in West Berlin because there were reportedly insufficient grounds on which to open legal proceedings against him . |
| 24 | The attack also came only hours after Juan David Ochoa , 42 , a leading Medellín cartel leader , had given himself up to the authorities ; his two younger brothers were already in custody after accepting a government offer of reduced sentences and no extradition in return for their surrender and confession [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 37914 ] . |
| 25 | Official accounts of the trial noted that although he had been involved in plotting the occupation of Tiananmen Square , he had given himself up to the police and had shown " repentance " . |
| 26 | Han Dongfang , leader of the workers ' organization during the Tiananmen Square protests , who was held without trial for two years until released on bail for medical treatment in April , was exempted from prosecution on the grounds that he had given himself up , the agency said . |
| 27 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 28 | But last night police in Gloucester were told that Gooding , who 's thirty four had given himself to police in Greater Manchester . |
| 29 | An escaped prisoner who faces charges of disposing of the body of a Swindon man , has given himself up . |
| 30 | A civil servant by day he has given himself a mission : to show the rest of the world just what can be done in a glider . |