Example sentences of "to [noun] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no need to change this law , and as far as I am aware no need for Mr. Byran to distress himself upon the umpires ' behalf . |
| 2 | During his stay , he set to work himself on the principle divide et impera . |
| 3 | Mr Devi Lal , for example , who had been lobbying hard for the home ministry to add to his deputy premiership , had to content himself with the agriculture ministry . |
| 4 | Lord Elphinstone had to content himself with the duke 's assurance that he ‘ would mention to those who mannage my affairs my being honoured with a letter from your Lordship & recommend unanimity upon this occasion … which I hope will be an inducement to the commissioners of supply to settle without varience ’ . |
| 5 | He had to content himself with the fact that it was mostly a one-way affair . |
| 6 | Now he has to content himself with the fact that the only replica of a Captain Cook ship he has been involved in was one built for the new shopping centre in Middlesbrough eight years ago . |
| 7 | In the world of education and in the year of the Woods Hole conference , Britain had to content itself with the Crowther Report , which , even at the time of its publication and even more plainly in retrospect , reads more like an epitaph than a prophecy . |
| 8 | I have not changed my decision to disburden myself of the task . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , some spark of remaining pride had driven her to array herself in a sprig muslin gown she had bought with the peach , topped by a pretty chipstraw bonnet that at least provided a little place to hide her face under its poking brim . |
| 10 | GEC is refurbishing 10 clean rooms at a cost of £7m , as the company bids to catapult itself to the forefront of GaAs wafer technology alongside US and Japanese rivals . |
| 11 | That the Assembly could depose and fine them at no notice , as happened to Pericles himself towards the end of his life , shows that the Assembly was theoretically and actually master . |
| 12 | Then also talking to children themselves about the death of others is a subject that adults shy away from very strongly . |
| 13 | I imagine him sliding over to Madonna herself with the words : ‘ I see , right , you and Bobby Gillespie , right , remaking ‘ Like A Virgin ’ , totally naked with a 36-piece orchestra , right . ’ |
| 14 | What the company will contribute or take from OMG is unclear , even to Sybase itself at the moment ; it says it is keeping an eye on developments . |
| 15 | She is beyond time , and yet she is giving birth to time itself At the moment of birth , her baby is the very youngest member of the human race , its star of hope and its future . |