Example sentences of "[pron] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we do , however , subject ourselves to prolonged exercise , such as jogging , marathon running or mountain climbing , we experience benefits over and above the merely improved function of our hearts and musculature — benefits at the emotional , mental or spiritual levels . |
| 2 | We visited the kitchen , were lectured to diet , closed our eyes and expressed ourselves to ethnic music and discussed who we were . |
| 3 | ‘ Especially as once we start , we can never confine ourselves to just kissing , ’ Luke quipped with harsh humour , and paused . |
| 4 | Before resigning ourselves to permanent depression and a feeling that special needs have slipped from the political agenda , it may be useful to look again at some of the implications for change for the better … |
| 5 | Well he does that on every questionnaire , but he still has got to get someone to double check it . |
| 6 | While most of us would admit to having hurt another person deliberately , we recoil in horror from the thought of subjecting someone to extreme pain for impersonal reasons . |
| 7 | With regard to B one development , er I wrote around those areas where which to other county councils , structure plan societies which monitored B one development and where B one development had taken place , which was largely in the southeast . |
| 8 | However , that part of evolution which to modern man appears to be extremely cruel , must not be condemned and relegated to the depository of ‘ evil ’ for evil has no meaning in respect of evolutionary processes . |
| 9 | Otherwise ( the point is surely an obvious one ) he would have limited himself to verbal argument . |
| 10 | Albert was the epitome of the wing-half of the 1920s because , not only was he a ferocious tackler and a prolific feeder of his forwards , but he could come upfield himself to great effect and possessed a smashing shot of his own , so that the ‘ Feebury specials ’ of the period generated a great deal of enthusiasm among Palace fans — and no little anxiety to opposing goalkeepers . |
| 11 | During the Second World War |
| 12 | We should regard Want , Disease , Ignorance and Squalor as common enemies of all of us , not as enemies with whom each individual may seek a separate peace , escaping himself to personal prosperity while leaving his fellows in their clutches . |
| 13 | In 1877 his father had heard the American evangelist D. L. Moody in London , and had sold his racehorses and devoted himself to personal evangelism . |
| 14 | He then moved to Sydney , where he confined himself to private practice , designing mainly houses . |
| 15 | Nor did Boswell the North Briton confine himself to political toadying to London , as he swung from compliments to conveyed slights : ‘ [ Mr Boyd ] entertained us with great civility . |
| 16 | Then he would be up and about , able to apply himself to unfinished business . |
| 17 | For the greater part of the 1830s and 1840s Nicholas I dedicated himself to international peace . |
| 18 | If only he would discipline himself to regular medication and give up smoking … ’ |
| 19 | At this momentous hour His Excellency the Governor of Burma is to dedicate himself to Almighty God for the task with which he has been entrusted . |
| 20 | He had begun to drink a lot during the day as he had learned to go to the fridge and help himself to prepared squash . |
| 21 | He then launched into one of his ruminative orations , reflecting on the evolution of our relations with India , hardly engaging with the Government at all , but indirectly committing himself to full support for the movement towards self-government . |
| 22 | Asks Laverne , subjecting the pond life he picks off himself to tight scrutiny . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , he was making friends of working men and trade unionists , and devoting himself to educational work . |
| 24 | Wattana first came in contact with the Davises and Jimmy Whites of the snooker world when he was 16 , the year that a Chester club owner , Harry Wau , was on holiday in Bangkok and introduced himself to local snooker officials . |
| 25 | Installed in a town house off the Rue St Honoré and accompanied everywhere in his armoured Mercedes by bodyguards armed with automatic weapons , he endeared himself to French society by throwing the kind of party that went out of style with Caligula while continuing to act as front man for the Syrian heroin cartel that underwrote his brother 's fanatical Alawist regime in Damascus . |
| 26 | It was completed a few months after its companion piece ( the G major Quartet Op. 106 and subsequently the composer devoted himself to programmatic tone poems and operas . |
| 27 | I wan na to take you to outer space outer space . |
| 28 | And if you do agree to them , but later have second thoughts , seek expert advice before doing anything which might expose you to legal action , or to the risk that the instalment payments will be stopped . |
| 29 | Although a breach of contract claim is based upon common law rights , remember that the Consolidation Act entitles you to minimum pay during your statutory notice period . |
| 30 | Thirty vouchers entitle you to half-price travel for a car and five people across the Irish Sea or the English Channel . |