Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We urgently need a promotional video — one of the most effective tools to communicate with a wide audience — which we can show to groups and visitors within RBG ; send out on loan to groups , schools and other organisations , and use as a vehicle to promote ourselves to potential sponsors and supporters . |
| 2 | What we have done to ourselves is to destroy the adventure of life by rooting ourselves to one spot in the physical sense , and demoralising ourselves by forcing the mind to spend its time on nuts and bolts and the rest of our shoddy interests , when it is thirsting for the trackless regions of the nomads . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , species are real things , with real discontinuities between them — at least if we confine ourselves to sexual organisms living in the same place at the same time . |
| 4 | We are n't reasonable enough to accommodate ourselves to such a shift in moral attitudes . |
| 5 | I booked half-board and every night in the ‘ EL PATIO ANDALUZ ’ , we helped ourselves to delicious hot or cold food , washed down with free wine or soft drinks . |
| 6 | Of course we knew we were going to marry , we promised ourselves to each other when she was only sixteen . |
| 7 | The social and political implications of Gandhi 's quest for Truth will also be dealt with in later chapters and for the moment we shall confine ourselves to such questions as how he goes about acquiring glimpses of absolute Truth and how he knows that it is absolute Truth he has actually caught a glimpse of . |
| 8 | The advantages and disadvantages of objectives can be examined from several viewpoints but we will confine ourselves to three : the practical , ethical and educational . |
| 9 | ‘ Especially as once we start , we can never confine ourselves to just kissing , ’ Luke quipped with harsh humour , and paused . |
| 10 | It had taken him a long time to adjust himself to this , but now it no longer irritated him , and he felt only pity for his wife . |
| 11 | Acads ' back play could have been more direct , but at least they contributed two cracking tries in the first half , the first by Simon Burns , with help from Ford Swanson , who then helped himself to five points as he finished of a Rowen Shepherd break . |
| 12 | Gesner waved for some coffee and helped himself to one of Stefan 's rolls . |
| 13 | ( And rather shocked that he helped himself to two of Helmut 's silk scarves . |
| 14 | DERYCK FOX helped himself to 13 points with a try , four goals and a drop goal to take the man of the match award and send Widnes crashing out of the Regal Trophy . |
| 15 | The Vicar then took the text for his sermon from the second lesson , ‘ God loveth a cheerful giver ’ , and was so carried away by his own rhetoric that he absent-mindedly helped himself to most of the grapes hanging down from the top of the pulpit . |
| 16 | DERYCK FOX , Northern 's £140,000 club record buy , helped himself to 19 points as brilliant Bradford shattered Saints ' unbeaten championship record . |
| 17 | He helped himself to some more wine . |
| 18 | He helped himself to some more lamb tikka masala . |
| 19 | He left the sentence hanging as he helped himself to more rum . |
| 20 | He helped himself to another brandy and waved the bottle before Herr Nordern 's eyes . |
| 21 | The Brigadier seemed to be thinking furiously as he helped himself to another glass of port . |
| 22 | Today when the four younger boys left for school , Jack helped himself to another cup of tea . |
| 23 | Death helped himself to another six cookies . |
| 24 | Noone epitomised this threat more than Ronan Carolan who helped himself to ten of Cavan 's points — a generous haul by any standards . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , Frano Botica helped himself to 24 points , two tries and eight goals , as Wigan beat French champions , Carcassonne 52–0 — and then admitted his job was on the line . |
| 26 | He manifests himself to each of us uniquely . ’ |
| 27 | He had already committed himself to more work than he could handle because he was inexperienced at making deals and having to turn down work . |
| 28 | But once he 's , once he 's resigned himself to that , he 's then got ta look at that operation next door and he must be losing money hand over fist for the amount of space it is . |
| 29 | Expo fever , Ruth had put it down to as Steve had been bowled over by the exquisite beauty of an air stewardess and , forgetting that the idea of being here was to make European contacts for their agency , had resigned himself to some enjoyable flirting . |
| 30 | Thus , the chronic 20 cigarette a day smoker exposes himself to regular falls in gastric secretion associated with each cigarette smoked . |