Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | My enthusiasm transmitted itself to Malc and he left at the end of visiting time a happier man . |
| 2 | Nor does it seem to be the case that the notorious reluctance of the Masai to accommodate themselves to the modern world was to any significant extent the result of administrative protection from it . |
| 3 | People within enterprises who are designated to engage in environmental scanning ( and similar ) activities do not of course restrict themselves to that part of the total external information resource that happens to be publicly available at a specific point in time . |
| 4 | Whether you decide on a honeymoon at home or you 're planning a trip abroad it 's a wonderful excuse to treat yourself to a couple of new outfits for the beach and it 's essential to look after yourself and protect against the sun 's more harmful rays . |
| 5 | His Mum helped herself to peas and poured him lemonade . |
| 6 | Yet there is also a less determinate area , in which artists devoted themselves to religious art not only , and sometimes not primarily , because this was the willed commission of their Immediate patron , but because they could identify themselves with the religious purpose of which the immediate social organization was the available manifest form . |
| 7 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 8 | Moreover , these groups found themselves to be in a catch 22 — no win — situation so far as their own political action was concerned . |
| 9 | The gang helped themselves to a video , leather jacket , private letters plus bits and pieces to the tune of £1,000 before fleeing . |
| 10 | The story begins on a May morning in 1991 , when Brian Mattison awoke early to see a heron helping himself to a fish breakfast . |
| 11 | Child labour recommended themselves to the early factory masters not only because it was cheap but also because it avoided dependence on adult labour whose traditional work habits were too deeply ingrained . |
| 12 | The Association applied itself to ways of resolving the continuing tension between the utilitarian needs of business and industry and the reinvigoration of a cultural leadership , its avowed objective being to reconcile practical utility , enlightened patriotism , and the " human ideal " in education . |
| 13 | In the 1629 session he told the Commons that ‘ religion offers itself to your first consideration at this time ’ , and reproached the Speaker for undue readiness to obey the king 's orders . |
| 14 | Ymor 's ravens were notoriously loyal to their master , to the extent that Withel 's one attempt to promote himself to the rank of greatest thief in Ankh-Morpork had cost their master 's right hand man his left eye . |
| 15 | There was one vital breakthrough for the nationalist consciousness , though there still remains some doubt as to how deep this was for the Fianna Fáil party : all the parties committed themselves to the recognition of the protestant — loyalist group as having legitimate aspirations and affirmed the need for the recognition of ‘ two sets of legitimate rights ’ coexisting in the island as a whole : ‘ Constitutional nationalists are determined to secure justice for all traditions … |
| 16 | In theory , the EMS is a means by which the currencies of the EC are maintained at a stable exchange rate with one another ; in practice , it means all the weaker currencies aligning themselves to the strongest , the Deutsche Mark . |
| 17 | A significant minority of our survey subjects referred themselves to the GP , drugs counsellor , and so on . |
| 18 | The Webbs devoted themselves to pressing these ideas upon leading politicians and civil servants . |
| 19 | I called for the last time at the first house in the village and pressed the buzzer , but on getting no reply resigned myself to the long walk down the mountain . |
| 20 | Rex drew himself to the business in hand . |
| 21 | Labour committed itself to immediate acceptance of the Maastricht social charter , with implications for low pay and for women , and to meeting the UN 's target for aid as a percentage of GNP within five years . |
| 22 | While John the Divine describes himself to the seven churches in Asia as your partner in patiently enduring the suffering that comes to those who belong to his Kingdom ’ ( Rev. 1:9 ) . |
| 23 | The Bank has declared its intention to restrict itself to reafforestation projects , bringing degraded land back into production , developing secondary forests and financing the policing of ancient forests . |
| 24 | Under the terms of an agreement , signed on July 14 , the two parties committed themselves to a temporary truce from July 19 to be followed by a complete ceasefire on July 31 . |
| 25 | So powerful did the Association feel itself to be that it declined to amalgamate into a nationally representative Shipping Federation which came into being in September 1890 , though it allowed its individual members to join if they wished and developed a working arrangement with it.Indeed the separatism of the Mersey shipowners lasted until 1967 when they eventually merged into a British Shipping Federation , though not under the title " Employers ' Labour Association " . |
| 26 | The King 's Bench Prison was for gentlemen debtors , for ‘ men born to property and a high station in life who by their folly and crime reduced themselves to wretchedness and loaded themselves with disgrace ’ — though James Grant 's description in Pictures of Popular People could not be said to fit poor Benjamin Haydon . |
| 27 | We would like to se the political parties commiting themselves to an overhaul of the sentencing process to make it more rational and civilised . |
| 28 | Thames will have a 15 per cent stake in the unnamed channel , with BBCE limiting itself to 20 per cent . |
| 29 | With an expression of furtive apprehension , Hyacinth allowed herself to be helped to her feet and settled , squatting , on the pot . |
| 30 | Cotton allowed himself to be mollified . |