Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christians , especially , should be cautious about allowing themselves to be influenced by people who do not have the same life goals . |
| 2 | The remaining two men received sentences of nine months ( suspended for two years ) for allowing themselves to be carried in a stolen vehicle . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the other lawyer was growing impatient with Bartocci for allowing himself to be imposed upon in this way by his pushy and unscrupulous colleague instead of attending to his utterly reasonable request for bail or a visitor 's pass or access to official files . |
| 4 | KIM WILDE : For allowing herself to be subjected to year after year of pathetic changes of image which only serve to make her look uncomfortable , especially the latest one , with the expensive Marilyn Monroe dress , loads of cleavage and sub-Belinda Carlisle rock balladeering . |
| 5 | Annoyed at herself for allowing herself to be suckered into that , Paige said nothing . |
| 6 | It is not worth driving yourself to the major airports in the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | To explain the-timidity of these people , we need look no further than the example of Arthur Jensen , who , after devoting himself to the study of educationally significant individual differences , is declared by the press to be an advocate of segregated schooling for ‘ poor and black children ’ . |
| 8 | After satisfying herself to that end , she rose presently to give them a chance to be together , and to allow Bishop Jon to awaken without embarrassment . |
| 9 | They were arrested after chaining themselves to cranes which were loading logs on to barges in the port of Kuala Baram . |
| 10 | And this , after spending themselves to the last ounce , only within the last three weeks , and being greeted everywhere with roaring crowds and cheering streets and the appearance of universal applause and approbation . |
| 11 | In 1862 the regime was hesitant about addressing itself to the broad governmental and social implications of the emancipation of the serfs , but new developments in the military and fiscal spheres signalled that its enthusiasm for reform was returning . |
| 12 | By the end of the 1850s the state had an additional reason for addressing itself to the fate of priests . |
| 13 | Francoise has a weakness though — an insatiable appetite for pushing herself to the limits of sporting endeavour in the most stunning natural locations . |
| 14 | Very few men took clerical orders in the hope of devoting themselves to pastoral work at parish or diocesan level . |
| 15 | Police surveillance made communication between different groups difficult , while separate circles and indeed individuals were acutely suspicious of submitting themselves to any centralized underground authority even in the interests of ‘ the cause ’ . |
| 16 | You do n't study these subjects at college : they are the incidental , unintended , beneficial result of submitting yourself to " the college experience " . |
| 17 | In mediaeval times ditches were dug around these woods to prevent deer from entering them and also to hinder those who ma have inclined towards helping themselves to underwood . |
| 18 | Once a girl sort of posted herself to me . |
| 19 | Just as the sociolinguist prizes spontaneous , unmonitored speech , the professional photographer of human subjects prizes unposed photographs ; but most people are very chary of allowing themselves to be photographed . |
| 20 | But instead of allowing himself to be weaned off the drug , he went ‘ cold turkey ’ . |
| 21 | Doreen continued to hover about them , still chatting with forced brightness , but , instead of allowing herself to be drawn into their banter , Lucy made a start on preparing to leave . |
| 22 | In Kingsley 's social novels particularly , the diseases of the poor have a way of transmitting themselves to the other nation by way of their omissions — neglected ponds or the products of tailors ’ sweat-shops . |
| 23 | Beware of over-committing yourself to the foot sweep . |
| 24 | On the other side , men of letters have so few opportunities of applying themselves to the general practice that the rules they lay down , however plausible they may seem in the closet , would often ruin the honest gardener who should venture to follow them . |
| 25 | People who are on intimate terms are incapable of expressing themselves to each other , ’ said the thin , melancholy Feiffer . |
| 26 | But the Lord has made it easier for you by giving us the lesson taught so simply and sublimely by our parents — the joy of love , that is of understanding and being understood , of giving and receiving , of sacrificing oneself to be recreated , of pouring out the treasures of one 's own heart only to find them multiplied endlessly . |
| 27 | Because Mrs like erm sort of assumes herself to be really fashionable by the things that like up with the fashions or anything and then Mr self important stories of the War . |
| 28 | He lived for his profession , so much so that , instead of limiting himself to examining the remains of bomb-blast victims , he attended the courses and lectures available only to a very few on bomb-making and disarming offered at Fort Halstead . |
| 29 | Yet the quicker they become local the greater the risk of degrading themselves to the styles and practices of their local rivals , losing the differences that account for their superiority . |
| 30 | Part of Lewis 's discovery of himself as a writer was the discovery of a means of presenting himself to the reader . |