Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finding ourselves too tired to be creative at the end of the day , we switched our lives around and put the ‘ thinking ’ hours first . |
| 2 | Always the man of action type rather than the deep thinker , he is a captain who leads by example ; if he showed himself rather insensitive to the needs of his bowlers , he showed his batsmen just what to do . |
| 3 | Carvajal was also very active in the bullion trade by that time , importing as much as £100,000 per annum during the early 1650s , and thus made himself so indispensable to the parliamentary side that , when he was denounced as a recusant in 1645 , a number of City merchants petitioned Parliament to have the charge dropped , and the House of Lords soon put an end to the prosecution . |
| 4 | How could she love someone who considered himself so superior to her ? |
| 5 | Identifying and challenging core irrational beliefs in this way becomes a lifelong self-help strategy for the client , who gradually finds himself decreasingly prone to dysfunctional and automatic irrational thinking as RET itself becomes a way of life . |
| 6 | And he has laid himself wide open to the kind of criticism that will cloak him in a dark shroud of misery . |
| 7 | It was a resolve he had fulfilled for as long as he could , relishing settling his mind on sacred thoughts and holy themes in an effort to make himself spiritually equal to the demands of his calling . |
| 8 | He was instinctively sceptical of the Italian guerra celere ; wary of finding himself politically beholden to Italy in return for military aid ; opposed to the occupation of Valencia — the seat of the Republican government — by anyone other than Spaniards ; and desirous of prolonging the war . |
| 9 | It also gives the information that Rolle was " accustomed to show himself very familiar to recluses , and to those who needed spiritual consolation " and it must have been during this period of his life that he met his disciple Margaret de Kirkeby . |
| 10 | It had not escaped the Brownies ' sharp eyes that Mr. Gordon turned up near the close of each Pack Meeting and made himself very charming to Brown Owl . |
| 11 | Public opinion , in an age which increasingly liked to think itself morally superior to its predecessors , was sometimes less willing than in the past to tolerate activities of this kind . |
| 12 | There the officer class , which consisted at the regimental level largely of provincial nobles with a well-developed military tradition , showed itself increasingly hostile to the purchase of commissions by rich bourgeois , even if recently ennobled , and to the invasion of the army by the power of money . |
| 13 | This squeezing in of lymphocytes and blood vessels is itself very destructive to the normal architecture of the tissues , and in rheumatoid arthritis even erodes the bone until the joint is completely destroyed , causing crippling deformities . |
| 14 | ‘ In me larder , ’ said Mrs Beavis , showing herself beamingly happy to be able to oblige . |
| 15 | She was fully stretched preparing her classes , on a whole new range of subjects , marking her essays , researching Domestic Angels and Unfortunate Females , and making herself generally indispensable to the Department . |
| 16 | A freckle-faced brunette with a lush figure pressed herself very close to him , and placed one arm around his narrow waist . |
| 17 | But I think that what we 're dealing with in developing countries is not so much erm an unwillingness to make themselves less vulnerable to disasters but much more erm they do n't have the resources . |
| 18 | Q. You found yourself somewhat surprised to be in this sort of environment ? |
| 19 | Their partial preservation has been aided by the presence of siliceous crusts which are themselves highly resistant to weathering and erosion ( see Section 6.5 ) . |
| 20 | I vowed then , as I have vowed many times before and since , that I would never again make myself so vulnerable to the team , that I would get them off my back and out of my life if it was the last thing I did . |
| 21 | ‘ The Klans are toning down the rhetoric to make themselves more palatable to Americans . |
| 22 | But I consider myself perfectly competent to be able to go to court , make applications for remand , make pleas of mitigation where there 's a guilty plea and also conduct a case in such a way as to be able to pass it over to someone else in the practice . |
| 23 | With somebody like Mr Scargill , I think you 've got to make yourself as available to the media as you can . |
| 24 | They won 7–3 at Revenue ‘ B ’ and forced a draw at second placed I.O.F. who are themselves almost certain to be promoted . |
| 25 | Party leaders should be free to devise programmes designed to appeal to the electorate as a whole , and they should only have to hold themselves vaguely accountable to the people through the direct mechanism of regular general elections . |
| 26 | Any church which wishes consistently to plant new congregations must , it seems , take seriously the need to train new leaders who can make themselves fully available to this work . |
| 27 | The domain assumptions of a discipline provide a context for research but are themselves relatively unresponsive to the conclusions of the research . |
| 28 | Old Ralf likes me , and I 've made myself very serviceable to him , and behaved myself circumspectly here . |
| 29 | You must sit facing the set , with the lights down or shaded , and if you are a normal viewer you will find yourself very reluctant to be disturbed during a programme that you enjoy . ’ |