"earn yourself" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to encourage or motivate someone to do or achieve something. For example: "Put in the extra effort and earn yourself a raise."
And you'd probably earn yourself some social points!
You have to be pretty formidable to earn yourself a nickname in this world, and anything that adds to her opponents' fear is fine by her.
"You can easily earn yourself a higher station with God almighty," a Canadian insurrectionist, Andre Poulin, exhorted in a video used by Isis for online recruitment, "by sacrificing just a small bit of this worldly life".
Add a dash of Photoshop expertise, and you can earn yourself £1,000 (about $1,500) a week, according to a former vendor, a privately educated British schoolboy, who used to sell fake cards at £25 a time to his classmates.The trade is even more profitable in America.
Its release crashed websites and has provided a sudden boost for its independent publishing house, Lake Press.It seems it is one thing to make a roomful of adults laugh out loud, or to earn yourself a prime-time light entertainment slot on television: but the real prize is to make a child want to read your next story.
Probably all you'll earn yourself is trouble.
This is where you use the internet to link up with people who need to borrow, cutting out the banks and earning yourself a higher rate of interest.
Stagger with it from cupboard to work surface and you've earned yourself the right to a cup of a tea and an iced bun before you've even started.
As for how to bank more sleep without skipping gym time, consider simply "going to bed 20 to 30 minutes earlier than usual on work days," Dr. Zee said, and "waking up 15 minutes later in the morning," earning yourself an additional 600 to 800 minutes of sleep per month.
If you had seduced ninety girls with ninety poets, one a week in a course of three academic years, and remembered them all at the end — the poets, I mean — and synthesized your reading into some kind of aesthetic overview, then you would have earned yourself a degree in English literature.
You connect your credit card to The Spring, pay with it at local restaurants, and automatically trigger donations to needy neighborhood causes while also earning yourself cash back.
