Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pn reflx] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rex drew himself to the business in hand . |
| 2 | Following through in a single smooth action , Manville threw himself to the ground and rolled out of the doorway on to the sidewalk . |
| 3 | Concern 's chief executive , Aengus Finucane , in Somalia on a visit , said : ‘ Wendy Murphy , a nurse who was with Valerie , said Valerie threw herself to the floor of the car when the shooting started . |
| 4 | The CNAA committed itself to the Diploma . |
| 5 | Jackson lowered himself to the ground . |
| 6 | On 19 December 1960 a new Cuban — Soviet agreement was announced , by which the USSR committed itself to the purchase of 2.7 m.t . |
| 7 | Returning to the main cavern at a dead run , Ace threw herself to the side as a cluster of boxes not far off exploded with a sharp blast , hurling several of the defenders into he oily waters . |
| 8 | Jesus compared himself to the bridegroom . |
| 9 | ‘ Love — ’ Fosdyke adjusted himself to the change of subject . |
| 10 | Gabriel took himself to the top of a steep grass slope and , lying full length in the grass , rolled from top to bottom , over and over and over , until he was soaking wet and extremely dizzy . |
| 11 | Jocelyn Toynbee restricted herself to the comment that they ( the cucullati ) were ‘ a comic element like the clowns ’ . |
| 12 | For almost twenty years Stutchbury devoted himself to the museum . |
| 13 | Protesting , Geoffrey moved to one side as Bridget lowered herself to the ground . |
| 14 | Bodie flung himself to the window-sill , leaning hard up against the plate glass and searching to right and left of the playground . |
| 15 | Pogodin addressed himself to the spectre of peasant unrest in April and May 1855 and called upon the government to allow freedom of expression . |
| 16 | From that moment on , Maltwood gave herself to the search , moving to the area , and eventually finding the signs of the zodiac , arranged in a circle . |