Example sentences of "[pron] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we have attempted in our previous books on further education succinctly to summarize the chief characteristics of the polytechnics , we intend therefore to restrict ourselves to a discussion of the ways in which they have developed in the three years since the first edition of this book was written . |
| 2 | We have helped ourselves to a buffet , had a few drinks , watched television and played games , as though we were a large family . |
| 3 | When at 10.45am we had resigned ourselves to a day of swimming and sunbathing a farmer pulled up and asked , in German , if we were waiting for him . |
| 4 | We retraced our steps and treated ourselves to a rucksack sledge down the corrie , taking great care not to end up with an ice-axe up the bum . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you suggesting we deliberately show ourselves to a human ? ’ |
| 6 | We shall help ourselves to a roof of bones , hung with shining wires ! |
| 7 | I told him that we had already committed ourselves to a cut of one half in our sub-strategic nuclear weapons and to smaller conventional forces . |
| 8 | We treated ourselves to a reindeer steak , then went for a last walk over the bridge towards the polar Cathedral . |
| 9 | Such is the importance of education and training that we have committed ourselves to a programme of investment of £1.7 billion . |
| 10 | So there is none of the relief of a true unburdening , and the discussion of problems that characterises the homecoming of someone to a companion who is close in age as well as relationship . |
| 11 | They would look for food by sending someone to a relative in a nearby village with a farm , usually entailing a trek of several days through deep snow . |
| 12 | In those circumstances , a magistrate can sentence someone to a maximum of three months in prison . |
| 13 | Attempting to beat someone to a pulp would be described in these terms . |
| 14 | It 's called the Hotel Leisure and Conference Centre , it 's actually based at Chorley or Charley if you come from that neck of the woods and er everybody that goes will be able to use the lagoon swimming pool er or challenge someone to a game of squash on one of our six courts . |
| 15 | Securicor have joined the cowboys on the contract guarding and really I mean you must be getting sick of us getting up every time about security guards , but it 's an important problem and you must know that a lot of you must work at places where you 've got guards on the gate and we all should take a bit of interest in going to see these guards , find out that they 're working for two pound or two pound forty an hour , they 're working as many hours a week as they 'll actually work with no overtime rate , no night rate , no benefits worth having and I mean really I wish you 'd go to your companies and try and arrange site allowances , cos that 's the only way we 'll get any improvements , but when we talk about resolving grievances , we just took in Yorkshire region someone to a tribunal for constructive dismissal . |
| 16 | But then , in the early '70s , Bristol was very raffish : the port connection made it a terribly druggy city , which to a student seemed very exciting at the time . ’ |
| 17 | NOW we have sent the Calibans grimacing and snarling back to their caves for a further spell , perhaps nice Mr Major will address himself to a problem with which we did not like to trouble him during the election . |
| 18 | But Evans merely grinned and helped himself to a stool from under a neighbouring table . |
| 19 | He 'll want things to go on just as before , while he helps himself to a share of the takings . |
| 20 | He strolled towards the table and helped himself to a biscuit off Ari 's plate . |
| 21 | Jake smiled , quite unperturbed by her sarcasm , and helped himself to a shortbread biscuit . |
| 22 | Otley made me some hot milk and honey and helped himself to a cheese and pickle sandwich and a mug of strong coffee . |
| 23 | He began to cry in earnest , abandoning himself to a storm of weeping , sobbing against his folded arms . |
| 24 | He was a very strong , patient , virile bloke who went on living with an awful woman because he had committed himself to a marriage . |
| 25 | Outside , in another crush of party faithful , Mr Major restricted himself to a standabout . |
| 26 | Despite the shock that he must have felt as he drove to what he expected to be his hangar on the morning after , he has shown himself to a man of warm priorities : ‘ People and their problems are more important than airplanes , ’ he has commented . |
| 27 | Angus Wilson 's Hemlock and After ( 1952 ) , John Wain 's Hurry On Down ( 1953 ) , Kingsley Amis 's Lucky Jim ( 1954 ) , Iris Murdoch 's Under the Net ( 1954 ) , John Braine 's Room at the Top ( 1957 ) , Alan Sillitoe 's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1958 ) , and David Storey 's This Sporting Life ( 1960 ) are all first novels in which a lone male protagonist tries to find a means of accommodating himself to a society whose main institutions he views with suspicion . |
| 28 | Anchoring himself to a piton , he cut the climbing rope and started to unravel its strands , working with the nearly frozen fingers of one hand . |
| 29 | He would have to dredge up an interest in his least favourite pupils and submit himself to a barrage of child-obsessed monologues from people he barely remembered from the year before . |
| 30 | Cornelius announced himself to a desk clerk who wore a badge saying , ‘ Hello my name is Danny ’ . |