Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pn reflx] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor does it seem to be the case that the notorious reluctance of the Masai to accommodate themselves to the modern world was to any significant extent the result of administrative protection from it . |
| 2 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 3 | Child labour recommended themselves to the early factory masters not only because it was cheap but also because it avoided dependence on adult labour whose traditional work habits were too deeply ingrained . |
| 4 | I called for the last time at the first house in the village and pressed the buzzer , but on getting no reply resigned myself to the long walk down the mountain . |
| 5 | Hilton addressed himself to the practical situation of his friend who felt himself torn by the demands of the active life impinging on his desire to pursue contemplation , and helps by showing that these two terms , so often used as opposites to refer to a manner of living , either as a professed religious or as a man of affairs , take their fundamental meaning from different inner conditions . |
| 6 | I tried to look straight ahead until I reached the top , then I entered our attic room and stood there as my eyes accustomed themselves to the dim light . |
| 7 | It was decided in Att. -Gen. for Northern Ireland v. Gallagher that the House need not in all circumstances confine itself to the certified question . |
| 8 | The old man swayed gently on his haunches , then , as the boy threw himself to the left , moved effortlessly across , fending off the child with his palms , using the least force possible to achieve his end . |
| 9 | Hideki 's mother was educated and emancipated , but on marriage subjugated herself to the traditional Japanese wife 's domesticated role . |
| 10 | In 1877 Anglicans founded the Guild of St Matthew , the first organization inside the Church of England to address itself to the social implications of Christianity since the 1850s . |
| 11 | His new work attaches itself to the ready-made tradition , taking the theme of laziness into ‘ a la recherche du temps perdu ’ . |
| 12 | But if Mr Major is at heart opposed to greater union , Britain 's policy is likely to be affected by the institutional pressures of Whitehall , which has over the years committed itself to the pro-European line . |
| 13 | Joe returned the warm plates of food to the table , and Dolly helped herself to the mint sauce . |
| 14 | It took a moment to accustom herself to the dim light inside , but as she entered a slight noise made her turn . |
| 15 | Richard Baxter 1615–1691 ) during fourteen years of pastoral ministry at Kidderminster gave himself to the pastoral care of some 800 families . |
| 16 | Immediately , problems present themselves to the fertile legal mind , and the final part of this paper will concentrate on exploring the implications of this submission . |
| 17 | We 've struggled against a background of the Charter Review in the BBC to match ourselves to the changing needs of the audience . |
| 18 | He stripped off his shirt and capered from outstretched dagger to outstretched dagger , displaying himself like the leper healed by Jesus showing himself to the High Priests . |
| 19 | Haim Maccoby addressed himself to the historical Jesus in Revolution in Judea , as did Geza Vermes in such works as Jesus the Jew . |
| 20 | The General could see that the garrison were having trouble adjusting themselves to the new state of things and so , to give them time , he called for iced sherry and soda to be served . |
| 21 | I was happy in my Office ; it was exacting but I could carry it easily in the House of Lords ; and I had no wish to re-submit myself to the rough and tumble of electioneering and the House of Commons … |
| 22 | However , neither of these procedures recommended themselves to the early survey researchers , such as Bowley ; his procedure was to compromise between administrative convenience and representativeness by using more than one stage of sampling . |
| 23 | What they may not have realised is that that message conveyed itself to the American public ! |
| 24 | However , most churches in today 's world , with its high population density , complex relationship networks and mobility will need to take a more sophisticated approach to alert themselves to the significant trends . |
| 25 | The fact , however , that Britain linked herself to the German economy through the ERM meant that , far from conducting the opposite policies to Germany 's — which it would have been in her real interest to do — she had to follow suit . |
| 26 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 27 | The tRNA attaches itself to the appropriate amino acid . |
| 28 | In his farewell remarks at Speech Day , the Headmaster confined himself to the past 25 years , comparing 1937 — when there were six Old Stopfordians at Oxford and two at Cambridge — with the present , when there were 22 and 15 respectively . |
| 29 | She hardly dared to draw the curtains to show herself to the other girls , though she had warned them of the horrid sight in store for them . |
| 30 | According to West European diplomats in Managua , President Daniel Ortega is running out of time in his attempts to present himself to the Nicaraguan electorate on February 25 as the ‘ peace maker ’ who ended the contra war . |