Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the terrorists were intent on ensuring that ordinary people would have nowhere to go to enjoy themselves . |
| 2 | So the only way in which he can have any rights at all to Ricky apart from you agreeing , is to go to court himself , erm and I 'm inclined just to say lets see what he does . |
| 3 | It must be further borne in mind that , right to the end , the vast majority of the Cossacks were to continue to see themselves , regardless of their own individual status or background , as a collective entity . |
| 4 | Not easy for her to deny me , I 'd assumed she meant , not easy to continue denying herself . |
| 5 | A vital element in that success was the MIT members were empowered with the responsibility and authority to drive changve themselves . |
| 6 | In looking at her tender and respectful image of a woman friend , forced to write to support herself and her widowed mother ‘ Portrait of Cornelia Knight ’ ( 1793 ) we see something more direct , less cluttered , and less rhetorical than the ‘ Portrait of Mary , 3rd Duchess of Richmond in a Turkish Dress ’ ( 1775 ) . |
| 7 | I 've got to try to curb myself because ‘ I do n't want to be banned from a sport I love . |
| 8 | He was there as chairman of the World of Work Committee of the Bishops ' Conference of England and Wales to tell the many thousands who were resent despite pouring rain that human dignity ‘ demands that all who can must be able to work to support themselves and their families ’ . |
| 9 | He decided to try to provide himself with a little more scope for an escape bid . |
| 10 | Dana would fall asleep immediately he put his head on the pillow , and after a while I had to try to extract myself from his embrace . |
| 11 | But even before it came to public notice earlier this year , poor Mr Engholm was having to struggle to impose himself on a fractious party . |
| 12 | When he read DELIGHTED TO MEET MAGGIE STOP LOVE STOP LUKE he had to struggle to contain himself . |
| 13 | Athenix Corporation , the start-up X terminals company , has hit a brick wall , forcing it to try to sell itself off or auction its supposedly breakthrough Multi-X technology . |
| 14 | So , together with his engraving , etching and aquatinting materials and his pigments for colours which he always mixed carefully himself , it was in the summer of 1800 that he decided to go north ( to the Lakes ) to begin once again and to try to rid himself of all he had learnt over the last decade and ‘ to adhere as faithfully as possible to nature . |
| 15 | Holly straightened himself , shrugged at his shoulders to try to rid himself of the weariness , gazed back at the man 's face . |
| 16 | Her family remained supportive , despite the emotional load : they remained hopeful that Rose would one day regain the motivation to try to help herself , and therefore the people around her . |
| 17 | It is clear that a certain possessiveness took over in his mother , always deeply caring and attentive , from which Leonard had to struggle to free himself . |
| 18 | Her eyes were rolling with terror as she began to struggle to free herself from the tenacious , sucking mud — struggles that only served to hasten the process and cause her to sink at an even greater rate . |
| 19 | The same tendency to compromise showed itself in a facet of internal policy much closer to home , one whose violent impact threatened life and property on the British mainland herself . |
| 20 | But as time had gone on he had found it necessary to try to calm himself . |
| 21 | I 'm not sure why I 'm bothering to try to justify myself . |
| 22 | The Messiah has done for us what we could never do in putting us in the right with God ; and the gift of his Spirit releases us from the need to try to justify ourselves . |
| 23 | When you do n't get the best ball of the day and you still get out , the tendency can be to try to satisfy yourself by claiming good intentions — if the attitude is that ‘ there are no excuses : then you accept responsibility and responsibility is always judged in the context of what , to repeat myself , you can call ‘ appropriate cricket . ’ |
| 24 | This personage reflected , somewhat grimly , that the first thing he should have to teach his little charge would be to appear to address himself to his mother when he spoke to her — especially not to make her such an Improper answer as that ( 6 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ I fell on the bed to try to protect myself , ’ she said . |
| 26 | In order to try to distance themselves from this operation they employed a freelance , just as they tap telephones illegally or burgle property by using freelances . |
| 27 | He had to struggle to convince himself that Cutter 's heroic stature was not a tiny bit reduced by this peculiar name . |
| 28 | In practice , of course , such com- prehensiveness becomes impossible , and this provides fertile ground for opportunism or for sellers to try to over-protect themselves against risk which drives up prices . |
| 29 | The most important of these is that there seems to be no evidence that people assumed automatic responsibility for their relatives — including parents — who were old , sick , or in some other circumstance where they were unable to work to maintain themselves . |
| 30 | First the marshals would n't even let Hunt get back into the car to try to get himself going again ; then , on the long walk back to the pits , Hunt , head hung , had to face the most vituperative barrage of noise and insult I have ever heard . |