Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this account , Lévi-Strauss uses the ‘ hero 's journey ’ to self-analysis in the field as a means of achieving or engendering knowledge ( see also Caplan 1988 ) ; emphasizing that it is the journey to self-awareness itself , and not the arrival , which is the most important aspect of the rite de passage . |
| 2 | Otherwise , you will require bridging finance to tide yourself over . |
| 3 | If the recession lasts much longer , and with present cuts in Government funding , the board will not have enough money to invest to tide itself over this period in which young people face such difficulties . |
| 4 | The Communists claimed that the ILP Member , John McGovern , had weakened the demonstration by trying to present its demands to Parliament himself , rather than allowing the leaders of the NUWM to do so . |
| 5 | The result was a slow leakage of power , to individual ministers and the new and still half-formed institution of the Cabinet rather than to Parliament itself . |
| 6 | Todorov goes on to suggest that these properties of literary discourse are specific to literature itself , and invokes the Russian Formalist concept of ‘ literariness ’ . |
| 7 | Whilst he 's no stranger to discrimination himself , he says the club is entitled to run the event in its own way . |
| 8 | Feeling somewhat naked in the bitter winter 's chill , he had decided to pitch up to his shirt maker in Jermyn Street , his hatter in St James 's and his tailor in Savile Row to deck himself out in a manner which Solomon in all his glory would have found intimidating . |
| 9 | He preferred life at court to the hardships of campaigning ; he liked to deck himself in strings of precious stones and belts studded with priceless gems ; he wore clothes of the finest silk and from each ear lobe he hung a single pearl of remarkable size . |
| 10 | ‘ But it just goes to show , ’ Ruth said , ‘ that they were right when they said emigrants should n't wait to leave until they were too far gone in poverty , but should go while they still have enough to provision themselves . ’ |
| 11 | As will be demonstrated with respect to Orientalism itself , Said can not get out of the Hegelian problematic that he articulates , and indeed tends himself to repeat the very processes that he criticizes . |
| 12 | Sometimes he would have liked to unburden himself to somebody , but his officers and men had their own problems . |
| 13 | It was that failure of implementation that seems to have prompted Leon Panetta , Mr Clinton 's budget chief , to unburden himself of melancholy thoughts on April 26th . |
| 14 | The laibon now begins to unburden himself . |
| 15 | I was sufficiently intimate with Tony for him to unburden himself . |
| 16 | Jules had tactfully made himself scarce on the pretext of work to be done at the new salon and now , two days after his visit to Maythorpe House , Harry was at last able to unburden himself . |
| 17 | Also , it seemed to Bénezet , in some excitement , and in haste to unburden himself to someone about whatever was on his mind . |
| 18 | I was yards away down the other end of the table , yearning to hear WHAT ON EARTH he was saying and suffering pangs of guilt that I spent so little time encouraging him to unburden himself to me . |
| 19 | ‘ No , Brand was persuaded to unburden himself . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's the need to unburden yourself to someone who will listen , ’ Lucy said . |
| 21 | Further good news is that more and more survivors are regularly meeting together , often to unburden themselves , sometimes to experience at least the psychological satisfaction of knowing that they 're not alone . |
| 22 | The moment teachers feel safe enough to tell the truth ( which is often anywhere but in their own staffrooms ) , they rush to unburden themselves of feelings and symptoms such as those which I have described , and are surprised and relieved that other people are feeling the same way . |
| 23 | Now it was time to relax , to unburden themselves , and where better than here where symmetry and disorder , artistry and chance , met in such perfect balance ? |
| 24 | The awful truth of Penny 's childhood and young womanhood is that the abuse never ended — and someone with the right counselling skills has to help her to unburden herself . |
| 25 | Once , after a particularly sharp contraction , she had a sudden wish to unburden herself to her mother , to tell her that her grandchild had nothing to do with John Carrow , but that its father bore a striking resemblance to Tom Tremayne . |
| 26 | He appreciated how that quality was still apparent tonight ; although now , in the half-light , he thought he could detect something else : relief , perhaps , at being able to unburden herself at last . |
| 27 | Jane is convinced that this refusal to unburden herself to friends led to increased frustrations for her mother . |
| 28 | It may not be ready to unburden itself before NT ships . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , but you see , ’ said Caspar , feeling his way cautiously now , ‘ you see , Inchbad would like to talk to Flame himself . |
| 30 | Hodge and the top circles of the occupation ironically were moving firmly against trusteeship as a result of developing opposition throughout south Korea to trusteeship itself and , more importantly , because of their belief that trusteeship would assist communism . |