Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [pn reflx] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are all men of the world ’ — he excluded the Archdeacon from eye contact and addressed himself exclusively to the Dean — ‘ so of course we know , do we not , that problems of that sort for young clergy bring with them all kinds of undesirable connections . |
| 2 | I grabbed my dressing gown and propelled myself downstairs to the kitchen . |
| 3 | And if her head warned her that he only wanted her for sex , her heart ignored the warning and opened itself joyfully to his tender passion . |
| 4 | This ascetic direction of Christianity exalted the celibate , both male and female , who abstained from both sex and reproduction and devoted themselves entirely to the coming new age that will transcend the corruptible world of birth and death . |
| 5 | And it was probably because of his desire to ‘ touch ’ space that he began to abandon landscape painting and to devote himself increasingly to still life , in which the depth was naturally more restricted and could be more easily controlled . |