Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two explosions in quick succession made me throw myself to the ground . |
| 2 | I hauled myself to the top of the wall , looking back as I prepared to jump . |
| 3 | Soon my buttocks were pressing against the ceiling , then the back of my head , and I hauled myself to the edge of the rug to look for a way down before I was crushed . |
| 4 | Someone shouted : " Lie down ! " , and as I threw myself to the ground , I felt a bullet hit me . |
| 5 | In the course of the paper I addressed myself to the question : ‘ Why is it that people unhesitatingly talk of feeling hot as well as of feeling the heat of things ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ When I am in the car I am competing professionally and I commit myself to the job . |
| 7 | In this free and easy style , I accustomed myself to the rhythms of school life . |
| 8 | ‘ One day , if I write my memoirs — the only thing I shall write well , if ever I put myself to the task of doing it — you will find a place in them , and what a place ! |
| 9 | While I acclimatised myself to the changes over forty years , I went into my own world , back even further than that first hospital . |
| 10 | At 16 , I resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never really be thin ’ |
| 11 | A feeling of terror mounted in me , and I dragged myself to the telephone and rang Émile . |
| 12 | I gorged myself to the gills although Benjamin ordered me to be temperate with the wine . |
| 13 | Of course Scamp gets to claim about twenty grand on some dubious insurance policy and I resign myself to the fact that I 'll never get beyond Inspector . |
| 14 | In Chapters 5–8 I address myself to the topic of experiences from a phenomenological point of view . |
| 15 | A gay text is one which lends itself to the hypothesis of a gay reading regardless of where the author 's genitals were wont to keep house . |
| 16 | As has been noted earlier , TANU 's cadres felt that nation-building could be achieved only through the control of the centre — a view which extended itself to the press . |
| 17 | Therefore the features which recommend themselves to the attention in one text will not necessarily be important in another text by the same or a different author . |
| 18 | According to David Hume , Locke was not alone in thinking that visual perception involves something two-dimensional : ‘ It is commonly allowed by philosophers that all bodies which discover themselves to the eye appear as if painted on a plain surface . ’ |
| 19 | She flung herself to the floor and rolled to safety behind the half-opened door , the Beretta clenched tightly in her gloved hand . |
| 20 | This The Waste Land did , but when Eliot writes elsewhere that any modern poet who applied himself to the drama would be an extremely conscious poet , using the historical imagination , it is clear that around the time of The Waste Land he was also considering writing plays . |
| 21 | Why had she exposed herself to the danger of someone remarking on the likeness between her son and her escort , and making the obvious connection ? |
| 22 | Do you regard yourself to the left or to the right in politics ? |
| 23 | At no time had she addressed herself to the credibility or otherwise of anything in the report . |
| 24 | The Women 's Industrial Council ( a group of primarily middle class women who devoted themselves to the investigation of working women 's problems ) went so far as to suggest that such a form of provision was inappropriate for women and merely intensified the ‘ regrettable tendency to consider the work of a wife and mother in her home of no money value ’ . |
| 25 | Only after these days can she present herself to the priest for ritual atonement of her impurity : |
| 26 | By her coarseness she sought to make things easier for him — she committed herself to the relationship , to this way of life , which , God knew , was n't much fun for her . |
| 27 | She committed herself to the view that ‘ there was no such thing as society ’ , only individuals and families , an extraordinary reaction against the outlook of the past forty years . |
| 28 | ( f ) She proclaimed herself to the staff nurse to be an ex-Jehovah 's Witness and the notes were recorded accordingly . |
| 29 | As the superintendent cut her way through the herd of lunchtime drinkers , Dexter followed in her wake , like a driver who glues himself to the back of an ambulance careering through busy streets on an emergency call . |
| 30 | Once you had served a few years , you might come to detest the job , but you committed yourself to the future . |