Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she lives on her own and poor health has robbed her of a normal social life , it is to be expected that her loneliness may have created such a build-up of unexpressed thoughts , feelings and opinions that she may need to talk herself to a standstill before she is ready to converse with you , and interest herself in anything you have to say . |
| 2 | All right , I 'll put a sling on that arm , and if the pain gets worse you must promise to take yourself to the hospital . ’ |
| 3 | It is a consideration which I should have applied myself to the assessment of general damages to favour this plaintiff . |
| 4 | Although I know that in these matters there is almost no limit to what people will do , I am horrified that Victoria should have subjected herself to an Aids test and — as I have heard happens — the offers of emotional counselling and financial advice . |
| 5 | It must have transmitted itself to the patients , for even they gave up after their initial attempts at jollity , and by mid-morning a definite air of gloom seemed to have settled over the place . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not sure that I 'd care to expose myself to the distortions you wreak upon your subject 's features . ’ |
| 7 | The team may have resigned itself to a fixtureless season but there is some small consolation . |
| 8 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
| 9 | Labour , on the other hand , wants to abolish A-levels and return schools which would prefer to govern themselves to the control of local bureaucrats . |
| 10 | And on occasion some groups would choose to submit themselves to the Russians as the lesser of two evils when called upon to supply tribute to a third party with whom they were not on good terms . |
| 11 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
| 12 | She would have given herself to a man for whom she was nothing but another short-term conquest , and in a year , or six months , or however long it took him to tire of her , she would have found herself alone again . |
| 13 | If , however , C.N.L. were to fail , they would have exposed themselves to the additional financial perils involved in advancing an insupportable plea of justification . |
| 14 | I would have flogged myself to the death up to the end . |
| 15 | Although the use of robots has been widely discussed and implemented in large-scale , large volume industries , their use in small manufacturing processes have common characteristics which would seem to lend themselves to the application of robotic techniques . |
| 16 | If the husband is purchasing a house for himself with the proceeds of sale of his interest in the matrimonial home , then , as he will have to commit himself to a contract in respect of his purchase , it is suggested that there should be a contract relating to the sale of his interest in the matrimonial home so that he is fully safeguarded . |