Example sentences of "reconcile himself to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke would have said that politically he stood way to the left of his mother and way , way to the left of his father , but somehow he could not reconcile himself to the thought of his mother stocking shelves in Pricewell 's . |
| 2 | The likelihood is that he saw the decisive disadvantages of Curzon but could not quite reconcile himself to the thought of the very junior Baldwin , who had so recently ‘ bounced ’ and damaged him over the debt settlement , being in 10 Downing Street . |
| 3 | is to be found in an obiter dictum of Dixon C.J. in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 , 117 , which was to the effect that he not been able completely to reconcile himself to the view that , if the weight of a de facto governmental authority manifested in a money demand , the money belonged to the Crown unless the payment was made under compulsion . |
| 4 | If occasionally he still dreamed of Madeleine , of holding her in his arms , kissing her , he had reconciled himself to the belief that marriage between them could only have ended in disaster . |
| 5 | Lothar then joined the rebels : his great expectations affirmed in 817 , he had never reconciled himself to the role of mere " emperor in waiting " , ousted meanwhile from the Frankish heartlands and " sent to Italy " . |
| 6 | Churchill indeed was so overcome with the romance of it all that he briefly reconciled himself to the departure of the British from his beloved India . |