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 . |