Example sentences of "[pron] to the " 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 | She was , he said , ‘ a great journalist ’ — ‘ We must recommit ourselves to the important mission to which Lernoux was devoted . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Our instincts tell us to beware of abandoning ourselves to the care of someone else . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ We have to help ourselves by never stretching ourselves to the limit when taking out a mortgage or borrowing money . ‘ |
| 11 | It conjectures that God/dess , the Source , the Universe , the Force , the Light — or whatever term you wish to use — just might prefer us to enjoy life to the full , to open ourselves to the joy and abundance of the universe ; that All That Is is perhaps a loving force , and does not want us to endure sorrow , poverty and hardship . |
| 12 | At this point the poet ‘ takes off ’ and in a moment of vision tells us that Man 's ‘ greatness ’ is derived from early childhood experiences — provided that we have contributed something from ourselves to the bare impressions . |
| 13 | We need to retain the choice to present ourselves to the world as ‘ not-beautiful ’ , to prevent suffocation and keep up a satisfactory interaction with people and tasks that we encounter . |
| 14 | I was angry as hell at the time and disappointed , too , for this was a strongly Labour-controlled council , but looking back now I realize that this was the best thing that could have happened to the group , for now we could present ourselves to the people of Rotherham as a genuine minority with a grievance . |
| 15 | Even if we confine ourselves to the more usual outlets for creative expression — in the arts and sciences — there is similar ambiguity . |
| 16 | With sufficient sharpening of the attention we may , confining ourselves to the quality of the feelings alone , entirely abstract from their locality , and yet notice the difference quite as markedly . ’ |
| 17 | In the meantime , let us address ourselves to the problem of those poor souls on the fo'c's'le . |
| 18 | Let us for the time being not take a stand on this issue but address ourselves to the whole phenomenon in its strong sense . |
| 19 | There was certainly no implication in classical criminology , as there was to be in positivist , that we can ignore the content and operation of legal rules in addressing ourselves to the question of the causes and treatment of crime . |
| 20 | The survey of Rutland not only covers a complete , if miniature , county , but also records the status of virtually every inhabitant in all but three townships ; although the subsidy rolls contribute useful supplementary material we will , for the present purpose , restrict ourselves to the muster book . |
| 21 | We rededicate and commit ourselves to the highest standards in communication as we endeavour to work for a more just , viable and sustainable society now , and in the future . |
| 22 | Therefore , we pledge ourselves to the following : |
| 23 | This definition suggests that public law in a broad sense ( not confining ourselves to the law of judicial review ) concerns the activities of governmental bodies , by which we mean the legislature , the departments of central government and the very large number of bodies and agencies which can be described as offshoots of these departments ( these are often called ‘ fringe bodies ’ ) , courts and tribunals , local government , and , perhaps , the police . |
| 24 | It is perhaps in part a matter of date which makes Dornford Yates 's novels seem high-flown and absurd to us where we can accommodate ourselves to the formalities of Anthony Hope 's Ruritania . |
| 25 | Perhaps now we can take Mill 's insight on board without opening ourselves to the charge of arbitrariness . |
| 26 | No longer were we ‘ engagé volontaires ’ , who could be treated as nothings — we had proved ourselves to the instructors on our course , and henceforth they would treat us as legionnaires and expect us to behave as such . |
| 27 | Their memory and remembrance — rediscovered and kept alive in historical reconstruction and actualized in ritual celebration — encourage us in historical solidarity with them to commit ourselves to the continuing struggle against patriarchy in society and church . |
| 28 | But even if we are able to accommodate ourselves to the fact that our parents were not altogether " good " from the child 's viewpoint , we may still retain the ideal in our minds . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And kill them , you say , and help ourselves to the great burrow ? |