Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mourou , 42 , and his co-signatories apparently intended to disassociate themselves from the pro-Iraqi position of exiled Nahda president Rashid Ghannouchi . |
| 2 | We would obviously like to see ourselves as the organ of a revolutionary party , however embryonic it may be . ’ |
| 3 | I wince every time I watch a two-stroke apparently trying to tear itself from the mountings . |
| 4 | She did not want to find herself in a hierarchical situation in relation to others at work , thereby creating false barriers and reinforcing the capitalist class structure . |
| 5 | A Punjabi speaking volunteer was suggested to sit in , but this was not acceptable as the family did not want to commit themselves to a regular time for the volunteer to call . |
| 6 | The tone of the article was that Charman was getting out because he did not want to commit himself to the group on a full-time basis . |
| 7 | After certain difficulties with the manager of the Old Vic , who did not want to commit himself to the play on the basis of the bare outline which had been shown to him , Browne approached the theatrical impresario , Henry Sherek , and asked him if he would care to produce the play — with Browne as director — at Edinburgh . |
| 8 | He may not be able to call upon the driver who took over the car to support his defence and to help him discharge the balance of probabilities in his favour , because that driver would not want to expose himself to the criminal charges of aggravated car theft . |
| 9 | ‘ On the rare occasion he bothers to leave that damn hotel — sorry , but you know what I mean — he just wants to drink himself into a stupor . |
| 10 | Clearly , we would not need to concern ourselves with the meaning of analogue information if all sources of text , numerics , sounds and images were digital . |
| 11 | I have to say though , that when we the Council advise other charities on the investment powers that they should take when they 're established and when they draft their Memorandum of Association , erm , we advise them to take wider powers er , than these , and we advise them that they should not seek to constrain themselves by the Trustee Investment Act nineteen sixty-one , as our own flexibility is constrained . |
| 12 | I just tried to defend myself from the blows . ’ |
| 13 | She had not looked deliberately , not wanting to tempt herself with the sight of him . |
| 14 | Cooperators can not expect to protect themselves against the threatened attack of the opposing forces without carefully preparing a united plan of campaign , in the same way that the Labour Party has mobilised its battalions … |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not going to turn myself into a performing monkey , ’ warns Howard . |
| 16 | You 're not , you do n't trust them , you 're not going to put yourself on the line are you , suppose . |
| 17 | and that I think really have more of an influence , cos they 're not going to change themselves into an individual |
| 18 | Existing customers are a worse risk because if they know redundancy is in the offing they are more likely to take out redundancy protection while new borrowers are not going to commit themselves to a mortgage if they are worried about losing their jobs . ’ |
| 19 | With the best will in the world a bassoon can not begin to express itself in the same terms as a viola da gamba and when two of the three melodic parts are conceived for strings a precious dimension is lost by substituting woodwind . |
| 20 | Through the haze , Bolton Castle was just beginning to show itself across the dale , square and massive . |
| 21 | I shall not have to concern myself with the interview of [ W ] but I shall concern myself with the interviews of [ the co-accused ] . ’ |
| 22 | The government did not have to concern itself with the balance of payments ( which was always expected to be favourable or self-adjusting ) , free trade meant that there was no need for elaborate connections with industry , the level of employment had to be left to the supply and demand for labour , and all that the government should do was elementary regulation in the interests of those sections of the community unable to defend themselves . |
| 23 | They do not have to protect themselves from the monster . |
| 24 | Drinking off the last of the wine and moving on to the coffee he finally managed to confront himself with the question of why he had been so slow to begin . |
| 25 | prohibits the application of nationality requirements even where the persons concerned do not intend to establish themselves in the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | a person in a fiduciary position … is not … entitled to make a profit ; he is not allowed to put himself in a position where his interest and duty conflict . |
| 27 | They know that you are not trying to portray yourself as a know-all , that you have accepted being ‘ only human ’ . |
| 28 | The man who wept during England 's World Cup semi-final with Germany two years ago , now can not bear to watch himself in the white shirt of his country . |
| 29 | And I suppose you have not chosen to flaunt yourself as an heiress in society . |
| 30 | Yet it is a testimony to the strength of party during this period that the Court , despite the resources of patronage at its disposal , largely failed to establish itself as an independent interest . |