Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It causes no pollution , either in terms of fuel consumption or noise , yet finding yourself suddenly cowering in the shadow of a huge coloured parachute at the top of a hill where you imagined yourself to be alone , bursts the illusionary balloon of solitude and remote wilderness for me . |
| 2 | The larvae then migrate through the tissue of the mouth ( cheeks , tongue , and pharynx ) to the stomach , where they attach themselves to the stomach lining . |
| 3 | It was a wise statesman who once said , ‘ Men must choose to be governed by God or they condemn themselves to be ruled by tyrants . ’ |
| 4 | I caught up with Dr Mawhinney at Deacon 's School , a local comprehensive , where he subjected himself to 45 minutes of questioning from 60 youngsters as part of an in-school mock election . |
| 5 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 6 | I seem to remember that I unburdened myself to you , a while back . ’ |
| 7 | I was so superior that I considered myself to be virtually beyond criticism . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe not , but if I were you , Miss Williams , I 'd make sure that I confined myself to facts in future , and the most pressing one of all is the fact that someone in this town is annoyed with you ! ’ |
| 9 | In the case of Letitia , who had married an Irish baronet , Sir Thomas Wyse , her refusal to accept the Emperor 's decision that she confine herself to being Lady Wyse , dropping all imperial pretensions by calling herself Bonaparte Wyse , led to her being expelled from France . |
| 10 | He was amused to observe that she forced herself to be a blank when she picked up the bowl of pus and blood . |
| 11 | But there ( at H.S. 's ) the food is so beautiful that she applies herself to it . |
| 12 | To acknowledge it — as the cards insisted that she must — a portion of herself , was to recognize features which were paltry and despicable ; it forced the reluctant awareness that she was , in part at least , a smaller person than she believed herself to be . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't find it particularly surprising that you allowed yourself to be seduced by her . |
| 14 | The point is , that you need yourself to be surrounded by other supportive adults for your own erm sanity and well being and that 's why I think erm you need an , a whole extended situation and you need to change the way people feel about , about children so that , children have more access to adults in general , and adults have more access to children in general . |
| 15 | Allowing for the fact that one knows oneself to be above suspicion — has any action or attitude of one 's own been such as to inspire suspicion in others ? |
| 16 | If there are difficulties in claiming that ahi sā is the right way in all circumstances and that the way of violence can never lead to Truth , there are similar difficulties in assuming that no violation of moral duty is involved in the practice of satyāgraha , or that it is only through the practice of satyāgraha that we show ourselves to be informed by the spirit of Truth and non-violence . |
| 17 | There are still areas where we tend to look at the other as ‘ the resident expert ’ , or at least more expert than we consider ourself to be . |
| 18 | It is evident from the comments made by the nouveaux romanciers that they considered themselves to be developing and integrating the formal experiments of writers drawn from a carefully selected modernist canon , suggesting that they judged modernism to have been incomplete in the French novel before their arrival . |
| 19 | It is not that such people are necessarily ‘ inadequate ’ , but that they feel themselves to be inadequate . |
| 20 | Although he endeared himself to Arsenal 's North bank and played impressively enough on the outskirts of the box to sustain his reputation for skilful adventure , he rarely found the net at Highbury and began to look like over-paid hype to the footballing public . |
| 21 | C's attraction is that it lends itself to structured programming more readily than assembly language programming and it is within a C language shall that the assembly language modules should be inserted . |
| 22 | One reason why chalcedony has been so highly esteemed is that it lends itself to a variety of decorative treatments . |
| 23 | Israel 's uniqueness stems from the fact that it considers itself to be in a perpetual state of war with its Arab neighbours which , together with the Nazi barbarities of the last war , is somehow supposed to make the rest of the world feel permanently sorry for Israel and give it the right to carry out any intelligence operations it likes . |
| 24 | On Oct. 25 the two main opposition groups , the DCR and the NSF , expressed their support for a DNSF minority government on condition that it committed itself to " the evolution of Romania towards democracy … and the pursuit of economic reform " . |
| 25 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 26 | The relative speed with which emancipation came about after he ascended the throne gives the impression that he addressed himself to it with enthusiasm , but even in Russian politics six years was a long time . |
| 27 | I believe that he committed himself to assuring that he would never be party to such a thing again if he could prevent it . |
| 28 | His dedication to the task of reforming Japan meant that he committed himself to policies of fundamental reform and governmental intervention through the office of Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers , Japan ( SCAP ) , which he would have condemned in other contexts . |
| 29 | His , though , is a concern with modern city life rather than with the truly rural , and it is in the sheer acreage of glass in the walls of the towering skyscraper blocks that he devotes himself to a series of studies on the diagonal . |
| 30 | Later he became less abusive and rather pathetically said that he kept himself to himself , that the girl was not roaming the streets getting into trouble like the girls who went to school , that company now would be cruel and shameful to an old man who had provided her with a home , protected her and looked after her in every way . |