Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pn reflx] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd treated herself to the new dress , from the boutique recommended by Anneliese . |
| 2 | You 'd given yourself to the highest bidder — ’ |
| 3 | The tempo of a summer 's day had adjusted itself to the measured progress of the tournament through the placid dunes and sandhills . |
| 4 | I was a war baby and a shame to my birth-dead mother who had given herself to the last-time-leave blandishments of my faceless father . |
| 5 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |
| 6 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |