Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [to-vb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After encouraging ourselves to trust God , we prayed , and she sat up , cured . |
| 2 | JC : Peter , in fact could never ever bring himself to hit Ellen , blind or otherwise . |
| 3 | New Zealand captain Martin Crowe : backed himself to hit Phil Tufnell for a matchsaving four — and lost |
| 4 | The plaintiff 's declaration alleged that he was owner of the Queen 's Theatre , that he had contracted with Johanna Wagner , a famous operatic singer , to perform exclusively in the theatre for a certain time and that the defendant , owner of a rival theatre , wishing himself to obtain Miss Wagner 's services ‘ knowing the premises and maliciously intending to injure the plaintiff … enticed and persuaded [ her ] to refuse to perform . ’ |
| 5 | He forced himself to meet Mick 's eyes . |
| 6 | Freddie clears his throat , and forces himself to look Howard in the eye . |
| 7 | He tells himself to leave Isabella , once and for all . |
| 8 | Hermione Lee pinpoints what I feel about this novel — that although its subject is depression and waiting for death , it does not feel gloomy because of its own formal delight , its interest in language , including the contrasted languages of the sophisticated ‘ writer ’ , the Professor , a historian of the European exploration of America , and Tom Outland , the indigenous traveller , discovering the primeval inhabitants , but teaching himself to read Virgil , and thus exploring in the other direction . |
| 9 | ‘ Did she tell you how your father sacrificed himself to save Frank ? ’ |
| 10 | No wonder that Abraham can not bring himself to name Isaac , or even refer to him as his son . |
| 11 | Still worse , Joye took it on himself to revise Tyndale 's New Testament without authorisation in an edition which was full of unscholarly amendments . |
| 12 | That a Queen should rebel against the King her husband was something so unbelievable that Henry had not been able to bring himself to take Count Raymond 's warning sufficiently seriously . |
| 13 | At death a series of rites enabled the pharaoh himself to become Osiris and thereby safe from the depredations of time . |
| 14 | The restoration programme undertaken in the town itself to celebrate Lorenzo the Magnificent has included work on the Palazzo Medici Riccardi . |
| 15 | In the context used for training , contextual cues will be able to establish an A2 ) ( secondary activation ) representation of the CS thereby limiting the ability of the stimulus itself to evoke Al ( primary activation ) . |
| 16 | For its part , Bolivia , in return for the Peruvian sea outlet , committed itself to help Peru gain access to the Atlantic through the Bolivian town of Puerto Suárez and on through Brazil , offering Peru the same facilities as it had been offered in Ilo . |
| 17 | The knowledge that someone , somewhere in Government circles , had known that what he 'd seen and experienced had really happened , should have been enough in itself to send Jimmy into a righteous rage . |
| 18 | Each year , the Labour Party at its annual conference had pledged itself to boycott South Africa as a protest against apartheid . |
| 19 | She braced herself to see Matthew the following day , but she did n't . |
| 20 | Having driven herself to meet Travis to obviate Naylor Massingham knowing that she had n't heeded his ‘ … in your interests not to see him again' warning , Leith discovered that she need not have bothered . |
| 21 | Lindsey shunted the thought quickly aside , appalled to feel the faint colour rising in her cheeks as she forced herself to meet Niall 's questioning gaze . |
| 22 | Whatever its actual effect , the English wanted at least to make sure that they would not be out of pocket over expansion in America , and the fear that they would lose money was expressed by the economist Charles Davenant when he wrote in 1698 : ‘ it can not reasonably be admitted that the mother country should impoverish herself to enrich the children nor that Britain should weaken herself to strengthen America . ’ |
| 23 | Anna allowed herself to believe Vronsky 's attention to her displeased her but before she even encouraged him she realised that sadly this ‘ persecution ’ was the sole interest of her life . |
| 24 | Britain pledged herself to keep BAOR , comprising four divisions , and RAF ( Germany ) on the Continent in order to assuage French fears of German rearmament , which the extended Treaty now authorized . |
| 25 | She had instructed herself to forget Harriet . |
| 26 | Above all , how could she have allowed herself to love Luke Scott ? |
| 27 | But the hope of it had been worth steeling herself to ask Edwin for that loan . |
| 28 | ‘ Because people — ’ she could n't bring herself to say Antoinette 's name ‘ — are going to be hurt , and you know it . ’ |
| 29 | Christina forced herself to compliment Rachael Mottely on her heavily pleated canary-yellow dress . |
| 30 | She did n't know what it was , but once on the phone she could n't bring herself to tell Anne all the miserable details . |