Example sentences of "[pron] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 One , it 's eleven ninety nine , nineteen carat gold , erm , something ring , size one to T , no I to T .
2 Fain would I to Lucinda 's Ear impart
3 I to Joe I said
4 But yet I was suspended , right , for a long time and she after she came back all she had is a little scratch there but they took 'er to 'ospital just to make it seem serious and she come back in school the next day .
5 you know for my to school and I like to say something about you know who oh it 's true
6 two weekends away I shall be up my to ears in it must n't plan anything for that weekend .
7 The mathematicians guarantee that all will be well provided we restrict ourselves to operators which satisfy the condition which they call being hermitean .
8 If we restrict ourselves to products with serious and substantial information content , our focus in the computer software sector is largely on educational markets .
9 We committed ourselves to arms control , disarmament and non-proliferation and to the conclusion of a chemical weapons convention this year .
10 Sharing our experiences allowed parts of ourselves to surface which were both painful and joyous .
11 ‘ That 's all very well , ’ Sophie said unhappily , ‘ but we do n't want to confine ourselves to household pets , do we , Joanna ? ’
12 To follow Jesus means to open ourselves to others .
13 Help ourselves to misery and death ! "
14 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 .
15 Until we talk ourselves to bed .
16 Are we prepared to discipline ourselves to restrictions and regulations that we feel we ought to impose for our own good ?
17 ‘ I think , ’ Tuppe pulled a converted shirt tail from his trouser pocket and dabbed his mouth with it , ‘ that we had best finish up here and apply ourselves to adventures elsewhere . ’
18 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 .
19 The way in which we present ourselves to outsiders conveys information about the organisation , its aims , the professionalism of our staff , and the methods by which we operate .
20 For now we will restrict ourselves to data on decision making and publication times .
21 If we confine ourselves to explanations couched in the vocabulary of physics or neurochemistry , then we are going to lose , or fail to formulate , a vitally important set of generalizations about human behaviour , and science will never be able to explain or predict behaviour in a satisfactory way .
22 ‘ As you can see , now that we have stopped exposing ourselves to Tramen-exhalation we have developed heads and can talk to each other for the first time .
23 Confining ourselves to Vienna and the last few weeks alone , it seems he may also have been responsible for a couple of recent murders of prostitutes in the Altstadt .
24 ‘ Showing ourselves to humans !
25 Now , shall we confine ourselves to business ?
26 We are not confining ourselves to small-animal work .
27 One is a problem of content : it is appropriate for feminists to celebrate their diverse sexual choices ( lesbianism or spinsterhood , for instance ) but not , perhaps , to reduce ourselves to body parts ( I would have problems referring to myself approvingly as a cunt , or even as a slut , since I would rather challenge the necessity for a linguistic category of ‘ unchaste ’ women than embrace it with joy ) .
28 Father said " We 'll restrict ourselves to speech and writing .
29 Our faith turns away from the search for personal security , which we all instinctively seek when we feel threatened , and leads us to abandon ourselves to God alone .
30 Our lives become richer and more free as we give ourselves to God and to of hers .
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