Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] [pn reflx] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Art History as a subject was not yet available at Cambridge : she would attach herself to the Courtauld Institute . |
| 2 | She would confine herself to the final phase of Marie 's life . |
| 3 | He placed the course in what was , to our minds , a very reasonable perspective , saying that we were here to teach our particular specialities , but obviously there would have to be give and take , in that we would adapt ourselves to the students ' needs , and they would adapt themselves in turn to the sort of thing which we felt capable of teaching . |
| 4 | And they would force themselves to the front all the time . |
| 5 | Richard , he said , was deeply offended that anyone should think he would lower himself to the depths of duping the editor of Music Week . |
| 6 | When he was engaged in writing The Cocktail Party , he was asked how long he would devote himself to the theatre rather than to poetry ; he replied , " Until I can convince people that I know how to write a popular play " . |
| 7 | He screamed that he would give himself to the Devil if he caught the girl before she reached home . |
| 8 | Again , three or four times a week he would push himself to the limit , galloping across the countryside with the hounds , risking life and limb in another of the most physically exacting sports known to man . |