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

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1 Er I to the campaign which is taking place .
2 I to the school after I was fourteen just for a wee while .
3 On the first Monday , everyone from MY to the physiotherapists and even the dentist came to see .
4 We treated ourselves to a reindeer steak , then went for a last walk over the bridge towards the polar Cathedral .
5 committed ourselves to a public right of access to information about the environment , including water supply , air quality , dumping at sea and radioactive substances ;
6 We retraced our steps and treated ourselves to a rucksack sledge down the corrie , taking great care not to end up with an ice-axe up the bum .
7 At another level this also happens when we commit ourselves to a particular religion or ideology .
8 As with any other area of living , we need to commit ourselves to a Christian world-view and not be tempted to borrow from secular philosophy .
9 We have helped ourselves to a buffet , had a few drinks , watched television and played games , as though we were a large family .
10 ‘ Are you suggesting we deliberately show ourselves to a human ? ’
11 This is partly because , for reasons to be discussed later , we shall be confining ourselves to a certain class of creative person , viz authors : it would therefore be presumptuous of us to extrapolate from our conclusions to other forms of originality .
12 This is probably acceptable so long as we restrict ourselves to a single group , like mammals , but there is some dissent when people seek to extrapolate mechanisms from non-vertebrate species , like molluscs , to the mammalian brain ( e.g. Hawkins and Kandel 1984 ) .
13 By asserting it , however , we are also committing ourselves to a general conditional proposition of a standard kind .
14 We shall help ourselves to a roof of bones , hung with shining wires !
15 every night , we submitted ourselves to a rigorous curfew .
16 We anxiously resigned ourselves to a long wait , and as the weeks passed we gradually got to know the handful of long-term foreign residents in the town , all of them eccentric survivors from days of former glory .
17 We limit ourselves to a single question : has this treatment been proved to be safe and effective ?
18 As we have attempted in our previous books on further education succinctly to summarize the chief characteristics of the polytechnics , we intend therefore to restrict ourselves to a discussion of the ways in which they have developed in the three years since the first edition of this book was written .
19 We treated ourselves to a sweet as well .
20 Of course , he did say that not committing ourselves to a single currency was the point of agreement that ’ all sensible people ’ would have .
21 Such is the importance of education and training that we have committed ourselves to a programme of investment of £1.7 billion .
22 I told him that we had already committed ourselves to a cut of one half in our sub-strategic nuclear weapons and to smaller conventional forces .
23 When at 10.45am we had resigned ourselves to a day of swimming and sunbathing a farmer pulled up and asked , in German , if we were waiting for him .
24 Is it that she , she 's , she 's , she 's wondering what will happen to her family or children if they go abroad , or is she thinking that each country in the Community , perhaps having some special erm excellence of its own , ought to be shedding this example among the others so that we all raise ourselves to a common , higher level ?
25 She was , he said , ‘ a great journalist ’ — ‘ We must recommit ourselves to the important mission to which Lernoux was devoted . ’
26 There , in the only cinema , we had a sadistic manager who delighted in not letting the kids into ‘ A ’ films unless we could con a grown-up into buying the tickets and going in with us , after which we would split up and go our separate ways , ourselves to the front row if possible , otherwise as near to the screen as we could get .
27 Our instincts tell us to beware of abandoning ourselves to the care of someone else .
28 When we talked about flukes and snails we accustomed ourselves to the idea that a parasite 's genes could have phenotypic effects on the host 's body , in exactly the same way as any animal 's genes have phenotypic effects on its ‘ own ’ body .
29 After a while we decided to round off the day by taking ourselves to the cinema , and ended up by catching the 11pm liberty wagon back to camp .
30 We would brave the icy blast , stagger down the hill and stuff ourselves to the gills with scrambled or poached eggs on buttery toast , or light-as-air omelettes , followed by giant sized mugs of good , strong tea and thick slices of bread and farm butter , all priced to suit the hard-up airman 's pocket .
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