Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I devote myself to the modest task of first abstracting from the actual economic policy of the State , which is the resultant of the struggle between two systems of economy , and the corresponding classes , so as to investigate in its pure form the movement towards the optimum of primitive socialist accumulation , to discover the operation of the conflicting tendencies , as far as possible in their pure state , and then try to understand why the resultant in real life proceeds along one particular line and not another . |
| 2 | The expression " New Deal " was first used by Roosevelt in his speech accepting the Democratic Party nomination as its presidential candidate in July 1932 , when he said " I pledge you , I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people . " |
| 3 | I accustomed myself to the mephitic stench . |
| 4 | Later , in my cabin , I treated myself to a long , languorous Omnipure sauna before turning at last to the task of choosing my outfit for the meeting with the Emissary . |
| 5 | Occasionally I treated myself to a half hour browse in a bookshop . |
| 6 | I knew nobody and had no idea of what to expect when I presented myself to the new teacher in my new black overall and white collar . |
| 7 | ‘ I introduced myself to a senior police officer as an international terrorist who would like to be taken to the England dressing room . |
| 8 | In that sense , their political attractiveness is not likely to be as great as that of present policies which emphasize training , selecting and matching , and which address themselves to the individual qualities and characteristics of the teachers themselves . |
| 9 | If it 's a private job , then it 's only common courtesy to have a word with the owners of the house and ask if they mind you helping yourself to an old door , or whatever . |
| 10 | In terms of laws governing dress , the nude bather on a public beach , the ‘ streaker ’ at a sporting event and the ‘ flasher ’ who exposes himself to an unsuspecting individual are subject to official punishments of varying severity . |
| 11 | Barely managing to hold her breath for the extra few seconds , she hauled herself to the other side of the object first , before surfacing . |
| 12 | Police are hunting a man who exposed himself to a young schoolgirl beneath the viaduct in North Road , Durham City on Thursday afternoon . |
| 13 | She treated herself to a short cackle . |
| 14 | And Des Esseintes , the aristocrat recluse in Huysmans Against Nature , who dedicates himself to the diligent pursuit of ever more rarefied and unnatural means of stimulating the senses . |
| 15 | The rush-hour would be at its height , with long tail-backs at the busiest junctions ; she resigned herself to a tedious journey home . |
| 16 | She confined herself to the upper part of the house , severing all contact with her husband and the other members of the household . |
| 17 | A courtesan was a woman of gifts who attached herself to a great man , and expected to be displayed as a badge of his wealth . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | But even if we restrict ourselves to the ideational or cognitive function of language ( see p 31ff ) it is necessary to distinguish three levels of organization in language . |
| 20 | Individually these are small matters but collectively they are important in the way we present ourselves to the outside world , or in modern jargon the way we market the profession . |
| 21 | At another level this also happens when we commit ourselves to a particular religion or ideology . |
| 22 | " We have no aggressive intentions and we commit ourselves to the peaceful resolution of all disputes . |
| 23 | every night , we submitted ourselves to a rigorous curfew . |
| 24 | Therefore , we pledge ourselves to the following : |
| 25 | We treated ourselves to a sweet as well . |
| 26 | We limit ourselves to a single question : has this treatment been proved to be safe and effective ? |
| 27 | How can they compare themselves to a former professional player who has played in front of ten or twenty thousand people ? ’ |
| 28 | They affiliated themselves to the mendicant orders such as the Franciscans and Dominicans for their religious authentication , and engaged themselves , like their mendicant counterparts , in active participation of their faith , managing numerous charitable enterprises and conducting their own daily evening devotional services . |
| 29 | By way of illustration , let us take an example from the development of Newton 's theory that we have considered several times before , and consider the situation that confronted Leverrier and Adams when they addressed themselves to the troublesome orbit of the planet Uranus . |
| 30 | They resigned themselves to the Roman presence in their country , made their peace with the Roman authorities . |