Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His Mum helped herself to peas and poured him lemonade . |
| 5 | The gang helped themselves to a video , leather jacket , private letters plus bits and pieces to the tune of £1,000 before fleeing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Thames will have a 15 per cent stake in the unnamed channel , with BBCE limiting itself to 20 per cent . |
| 17 | The hills , lakes and coast lend themselves to a variety of outdoor pursuits such as fell walking , mountaineering , pony-trekking , fishing , sailing , canoeing and swimming . |
| 18 | But the priest allowed himself to be seated and to have a glass of wine poured for him . |
| 19 | Heartened by the sight of Weir standing beside Reagan on the South Lawn , the administration allowed itself to be drawn further into the Israeli-Iranian manoeuvres . |
| 20 | He was in the courtyard , unfastening a pair of skis , his jet-black ski-suit moulding itself to his body in a way that drew her glance whether she liked it or not . |
| 21 | Apparently the offer from the department to submit itself to cross-examination came about because of a gaff in communications between the department and counsel instructed on its behalf by the Treasury Solicitor . |
| 22 | This parasite attaches itself to the mouths of fishes , sea-squirts , etc. 65 . |
| 23 | This chapter confines itself to the intangibles . |
| 24 | Her mother 's voice was fainter and , for the first time , Hari felt the fear communicate itself to her . |
| 25 | On the other hand , a court of equity addresses itself to the amount of costs that the mortgagee should be allowed as a condition of redemption . |
| 26 | During the second number , he draped himself in the Union Jack , presumably in an attempt to endear himself to the bulldog breed . |
| 27 | The new complex lends itself to mechanised materials handling … whilst the cost of construction has been high , rental costs have been eliminated . |
| 28 | The distortion of perception extended itself to areas other than my body . |
| 29 | And , on the other side , one outcome of the Truce of Orléans was that Charles took the abbacy of Ferrières away from Odo and gave it to a member of the community whose chief recommendation ( with still more pull than his fine scholarship ) was a readiness to commit himself to Charles . |
| 30 | Less easy to understand is the apparent willingness of the judiciary to lend themselves to this manoeuvring . |