Example sentences of "[pron] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | two weekends away I shall be up my to ears in it must n't plan anything for that weekend . |
| 2 | If we restrict ourselves to products with serious and substantial information content , our focus in the computer software sector is largely on educational markets . |
| 3 | We find it difficult to know how to obtain samples of families with recent baptisms , so we enlist the help of some local clergy who are interested , and we find that it seems simpler to restrict ourselves to baptism within the Anglican Church , since other baptisms in nonconformist churches and chapels suggest that the parents are of some definite religious following . |
| 4 | We can confine ourselves to models of the random coil , as this is usually believed to be most appropriate for synthetic polymers ; other models — rods , discs , spheres , spheroids — are also postulated , but need not concern us at this level . |
| 5 | For now we will restrict ourselves to data on decision making and publication times . |
| 6 | We pledge ourselves to God for His work at St Leonard 's |
| 7 | Oh no but if you look at the responsibility an E O has n't got for scale three , why are we flogging ourselves to death on scale four ? |
| 8 | Unfortunately , Randall left ambiguous the respective roles of Wilkins and Franklin , and this later led to dissension about the demarcation of the DNA research at King 's , but a letter of his to Franklin in 1950 makes it clear that on ‘ the experimental X-ray effort there would be for the moment only yourself and Gosling ’ . |
| 9 | She follows this with a beautifully breathy version of Cole Porter 's ‘ You Do Something To Me ’ ( from ‘ Red , Hot & Blue ’ ) and the Marilyn Monroe classic ‘ I Want To Be Loved By You ’ ( boo boo be doo ! ) and ( next week , fan mugs ! ) you get the chance to buy the second half of this two CD set including the title track ( again ) plus ‘ Someone To Watch Over Me ’ and — wait for it — ‘ My Heart Belongs To Daddy ’ . |
| 10 | We want to see Grand Met send someone to Darlington to a meeting which would include all the licensees affected by the rent rises and the new leases . ’ |
| 11 | Admitting someone to hospital for respite care permits review of their problems — medical or otherwise — and drug regimens . |
| 12 | There are also times when there may be no option but to admit someone to hospital for treatment when there is a serious risk that the person will harm him or herself or is becoming physically ill through inadequate nourishment and self-care . |
| 13 | Moreover , with so many potential members , it is easier for someone to free-ride without being noticed or subjected to any kind of social sanction by those who do join . |
| 14 | Once you have made your choice of slide type you are presented with an appropriate entry form in which to type in your data . |
| 15 | What was hiding a bit of evidence compared to clubbing somebody to death with a black cab ? |
| 16 | If a court has sentenced somebody to prison for an excessive length of time , there is already a sentencing council — the Court of Appeal , which can reduce the sentence . |
| 17 | It tells how the attractions of the women of Moab , a region to the east of the Dead Sea in which the Israelites were encamped , led the people to join in the worship of their gods , and how ‘ Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor ’ , the chief of the local deities ( 25.3 ) . |
| 18 | To keep himself busy , Mr Cottle helped himself to porridge from a steaming bowl . |
| 19 | In these commentaries — on Solomon 's rebuilding of the Temple , on Esras and Nehemiah , especially on Samuel — he constantly addressed himself to passages about kings . |
| 20 | DEFENDER David Lee yesterday committed himself to Chelsea until 1996 . |
| 21 | He is reported to have invited himself to lunch with the Mayor of Bodmin , but firstly asked his worship for a gallows to be erected for a hanging . |
| 22 | Her son , Steve , got up , gave himself breakfast , and took himself to school without reporting her absence . |
| 23 | Arnulf achieved his goal , thereby opening himself to charges of duplicity . |
| 24 | Hand restricted himself to University of London theses because of his ease of access to the original works , and he further restricted himself to a five year period . |
| 25 | John Newsom , who later became my friend , endeared himself to headmasters by asserting the principle that as much freedom as possible in the running of schools should be delegated to heads — even although , or perhaps because , he well knew that many of them were rogues . |
| 26 | ‘ If he committed himself to Britain by actually living here he might find a bit more warmth forthcoming from the British public . |
| 27 | As Ibn Fayoud 's guests took their seats for dinner , he introduced himself to Kelly with edgy formality . |
| 28 | It is possible that for all its lofty consequences , Nietzsche 's willingness to expose himself to Meistersinger in the first place arose out of nothing loftier than social contacts : the coincidence that a sister of Wagner 's living in Leipzig was friendly with Professor Ritschl and his wife , with whom Nietzsche was on excellent terms at the time . |
| 29 | Lupold was never acceptable to the pope ( to whom he remained the bishop of Worms who had transferred himself to Mainz without papal licence ) and when at the end of 1204 Philip saw hope of victory he made a bad move by sending Lupold to Italy . |
| 30 | Julian Bailey , despite failing to qualify his Lotus 102B at Phoenix , is understood to be prepared to commit himself to Lotus for the entire season — if Martin Donnelly is n't fit enough to race — backed by a personal investment of up to £75,000 , earned during two years with the Group C Nissan team . |