Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As mothers and doctors we benefit from being able to continue our medical careers while devoting ourselves to our families ; our patients have access to female doctors sympathetic to the experience of raising a young family ; and our practice is enriched by our contributions on the broadest range of issues from the clinical to the practical . |
| 2 | What we have done to ourselves is to destroy the adventure of life by rooting ourselves to one spot in the physical sense , and demoralising ourselves by forcing the mind to spend its time on nuts and bolts and the rest of our shoddy interests , when it is thirsting for the trackless regions of the nomads . |
| 3 | Then we took turns at the dressing table , plastering our faces with lotions , creams , lipstick and eye shadow , and helping ourselves to my mother 's " Arpège " . |
| 4 | By allowing ourselves to be forced to carry these cards for the convenience of the state , we will be acknowledging that we are at the disposition of the state and its computers . |
| 5 | Consequently , rather than allowing ourselves to be drawn into a metaphysical wild-goose chase we should concentrate instead on exploring the structural features of the minimal conceptual apparatus upon which any significant choice of ontological objects must depend . |
| 6 | But are we allowing ourselves to be carried away by false vanity ? |
| 7 | Perhaps now we can take Mill 's insight on board without opening ourselves to the charge of arbitrariness . |
| 8 | In The Hague with Sien he had given himself over to light , like a Myshkin who was all love , meek as a lamb , becoming the woman 's servant and in this roundabout fashion returning himself to infancy . |
| 9 | In choosing a kasabat kadilik , then , a student was in effect shutting himself off from the high offices of state and , provided that he intended to stay within the learned profession , dooming himself to a lifetime of service in the kasabat kadiliks unless he could somehow get back into the medrese stream . |
| 10 | Anchoring himself to a piton , he cut the climbing rope and started to unravel its strands , working with the nearly frozen fingers of one hand . |
| 11 | We end up with the Shakespeare we knew savaged and refashioned in the Laureate 's own image with ‘ an almost pathological psychic alienation from the culture within which his plays triumphed ’ : the Blackamoor , the naked , essential man , hovelled with swine , revealing himself to Lear and to Timon in their extremity . |
| 12 | He beamed at her , revealing himself to be more drunk than Lydia had first supposed . |
| 13 | JH : When launching , say , into Beethoven 's Op. 2 No. 3 C major Sonata ( for example ) , do you still find yourself thinking very much of ‘ Beethoven the young lion ’ announcing himself to the world ? |
| 14 | Arnulf achieved his goal , thereby opening himself to charges of duplicity . |
| 15 | If not it seems to me possible that Summerchild could be opening himself to proceedings under the Official Secrets Act . |
| 16 | But apart from his rugby chores , McBride will be stretching his maternal instincts to the limit — He 's gearing himself to be a father for the first time in October . |
| 17 | Being able to look back , by means of regression , and discover that their condition has a logical and rational cause , takes away that feeling of stupidity and prevents the patient condemning himself to a lifetime of inevitable failure . |
| 18 | As well as giving him moral ascendancy over the rest of the company , driving himself to exhaustion might also cloud critical judgement , so that comments would be made on the effort that had gone into the show rather than on its quality . ) |
| 19 | As a youth , he was never an avid record collector and he had no real interest in applying himself to mastering an instrument . |
| 20 | He struggled to match the already competent Dave Fielding , but was soon applying himself to pecuniary areas . |
| 21 | This study has illustrated the ways in which the social sciences created ‘ new knowledges ’ as they revolutionized themselves , and none more so than psychology which obtained its influential position by applying itself to a number of ‘ practices ’ involving problems of the ‘ abnormal functioning ’ of either individuals or institutions . |
| 22 | We saw in the first Test the damage of which Gary Freeman , working behind dominant forwards , is capable ; in the second Test , behind a pack tackling itself to a standstill , Shaun Edwards dictated . |
| 23 | More likely , they said , was that China would continue to modernise its economy , so that by 1997 the situation would be more one of China 's adjusting to Hong Kong , than of Hong Kong 's trimming itself to China . |
| 24 | Film Fun laughing itself to death in the coal fire . |
| 25 | It is extraordinary that such a large animal can move through close cover without revealing itself to its prey . |
| 26 | For years the house had been civilised and orderly ; she and her husband downstairs , with the garden , Mrs Jackson , a widow , keeping herself to herself , in the flat above . |
| 27 | She used her feet , dancing away and flying back , anchoring herself to the broken lamp-post as she launched four rapid kicks to the Daughter 's torso . |
| 28 | One source said : ‘ It would come as no surprise to find her driving herself to the church . |
| 29 | Topaz blushed with pleasure at the unexpected praise , but she still went on driving herself to , and beyond , her limits . |
| 30 | After satisfying herself to that end , she rose presently to give them a chance to be together , and to allow Bishop Jon to awaken without embarrassment . |