Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gusto with which he designed these posters shows how whole-heartedly he gave himself to the task in hand . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 3 | The more people travel the more they expose themselves to the risk of an accident . |
| 4 | There he brought himself to the notice of George Clifford , the wealthy Amsterdam banker and horticulturist ( see p. 50 ) , who had engaged young Linnaeus as his personal physician and as recorder of his garden plants . |
| 5 | He had fixed his star on the great Shakespearian roles — that , in his professional life , was what he lived by , that was how he tested himself to the limit . |
| 6 | That 's why they broadcast themselves to the wind . |
| 7 | Jordan had turned to Saudi Arabia for its oil supplies when it committed itself to the UN embargo on trade with Iraq and Kuwait [ see p. 37639 ] . |
| 8 | Steele escaped only weeks ago from Edinburgh prison and turned up in London where he glued himself to the railings at Buckingham Palace to protest his innocence before being re-arrested. escape , Steele telephoned the Daily Record newspaper . |