Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pn reflx] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 2 | However , at this moment I am addressing myself to the question of motive . |
| 3 | Property speculators in particular are addressing themselves to the question of what is to be done with the vast stretches of land once occupied by watch towers , border guards , dogs and rabbits . |
| 4 | However , an increasing number of countries are committing themselves to the goal of immunising 80% of their children by 1990 under the World Health Organization 's Extended Programme on Immunisation ( EPI ) . |
| 5 | ‘ What I 'm not prepared to do is commit myself to the club beyond that , until such time as a final plan , which I understand from the chairman was agreed in principle by all directors on Saturday night , has been formally ratified by all board members . |
| 6 | How much easier and publicly commendable it is to devote yourself to the parish , however demanding , than to a wife having a nervous breakdown at home . ’ |
| 7 | Mind you , she was starving herself to the point of endangering her life and had to be hospitalized , but er oh no , her hormon her hormon well her hormonal changes went into reverse , they absolutely did . |
| 8 | The way to Lavondyss was a short climb away , and all she needed was to resign herself to the journey , to abandon Scathach . |
| 9 | To be seriously concerned with this field was to expose oneself to the possibility of ridicule when it turned out that one had been deceived by a clever confidence trickster ; at best it led to controversy , to results which were suggestive rather than conclusive , and away from those straightforward and answerable questions which since Galileo 's time had been the essence of scientific research . |
| 10 | He was taking himself to the limit and then pushing on from there . |