Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pn reflx] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one point , the German countess emerged from the midst of the gentlemen and before I had had a chance to serve her , began helping herself to some port from my tray . |
| 2 | Ignoring the traditional possessiveness of the Home Office towards the content of the criminal law as well as its administration , the Law Commission declined to confine itself to civil law matters . |
| 3 | She did not even know what it meant to adapt oneself to another person 's requirements for the sake of self-interest . |
| 4 | They could n't read or write , but Topaz longed to know about the world in which she lived , learn about strange lands beyond the seas , and the even more puzzling ways of the gaujos who spent their whole time shut up in houses made of bricks or stone , as if they had condemned themselves to perpetual imprisonment . |
| 5 | I can look back with pride on recalling how well I had adapted myself to this trade , and all aspects involved . |
| 6 | After he had gone and after they had introduced themselves to each other , David Fairfax said reflectively , " I know that man . |
| 7 | Disproportionately she had longed , in the interminable wastes of adolescence , in the grey and monotonous steppes , and some of the longing had attached itself to this night , this one night of the year , when others ( she knew from school friends , from the radio , from novels ) , when others went to parties and celebrated whatever was about to be . |