Example sentences of "[pron] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | two weekends away I shall be up my to ears in it must n't plan anything for that weekend . |
| 2 | The mathematicians guarantee that all will be well provided we restrict ourselves to operators which satisfy the condition which they call being hermitean . |
| 3 | If we restrict ourselves to products with serious and substantial information content , our focus in the computer software sector is largely on educational markets . |
| 4 | We committed ourselves to arms control , disarmament and non-proliferation and to the conclusion of a chemical weapons convention this year . |
| 5 | To follow Jesus means to open ourselves to others . |
| 6 | Are we prepared to discipline ourselves to restrictions and regulations that we feel we ought to impose for our own good ? |
| 7 | ‘ I think , ’ Tuppe pulled a converted shirt tail from his trouser pocket and dabbed his mouth with it , ‘ that we had best finish up here and apply ourselves to adventures elsewhere . ’ |
| 8 | We can confine ourselves to models of the random coil , as this is usually believed to be most appropriate for synthetic polymers ; other models — rods , discs , spheres , spheroids — are also postulated , but need not concern us at this level . |
| 9 | The way in which we present ourselves to outsiders conveys information about the organisation , its aims , the professionalism of our staff , and the methods by which we operate . |
| 10 | If we confine ourselves to explanations couched in the vocabulary of physics or neurochemistry , then we are going to lose , or fail to formulate , a vitally important set of generalizations about human behaviour , and science will never be able to explain or predict behaviour in a satisfactory way . |
| 11 | ‘ Showing ourselves to humans ! |
| 12 | In this room there was an enormous human bomb in front of them which was liable to explode and blow someone to bits any moment . |
| 13 | The point was that Jenkins was a nonconformist , a rebel even ; an ‘ unqualified ’ coach who would disdain the Welsh Rugby Union coaching certificate , which to others is a glittering prize , as a scrap of paper . |
| 14 | In these commentaries — on Solomon 's rebuilding of the Temple , on Esras and Nehemiah , especially on Samuel — he constantly addressed himself to passages about kings . |
| 15 | Gerard confined himself to documentaries and it was while making a 90-minute update on South Africa , Back On The Frontier , for ITV in 1986 , that he became fired up to press ahead again single-mindedly with the feature . |
| 16 | He started keeping Fred and himself to timetables , so that she knew where she was , and cut out eating with Fred after the show or seeing him in the daytime at weekends . |
| 17 | If it is true that he saw the Church in the form of a pyramid , as many people did , with authority flowing down from himself to cardinals , bishops and then to priests , then a Council had no place in any such scheme of things : it only confused the pattern of authority . |
| 18 | Arnulf achieved his goal , thereby opening himself to charges of duplicity . |
| 19 | Okoye has endeared himself to team-mates and fans not only through his play on the field but through his incredibly modest behaviour off it . |
| 20 | There was even a time , John said later , when his one ambition was to devote himself to horses , but his father was not especially enthusiastic about that idea . |
| 21 | John Newsom , who later became my friend , endeared himself to headmasters by asserting the principle that as much freedom as possible in the running of schools should be delegated to heads — even although , or perhaps because , he well knew that many of them were rogues . |
| 22 | Again ( where Pound 's addressing himself to Americans is especially evident ) : |
| 23 | If the accused helps himself to services , for example , by sneaking into a cinema when no one is looking , there is no obtaining by deception . |
| 24 | After twenty-five years as one of Cologne 's premier dealers , Zwirner will close his gallery in December of this year in order to work as a private dealer and to devote himself to projects of personal interest . |
| 25 | We insist on an area of personal moral sovereignty within which each of us may prefer the interests of family and friends and devote himself to projects that are selfish , however grand . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Bill was completely subversive and that , I suppose , is why he liked climbing and why he endeared himself to climbers . |
| 28 | She also failed to notice the board had hired a teacher with convictions for exposing himself to schoolgirls , or ask why a probationary principal was still in place despite pleading guilty to a $21,000 welfare scam . |
| 29 | He spends his money and himself too quickly , runs up massive bills , gives , gives , gives , takes , takes , takes , fast forwards himself to extremes of bliss , extremes of abjection , invests unwisely in the single love-object , the addiction or the fetish . |
| 30 | Harris did all the preliminary research and visited the secular buildings , Pevsner confined himself to churches and medieval domestic buildings . |