Example sentences of "[prep] order [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isambard was taking it for granted , it seemed , that a boy of fifteen could easily be seduced into giving his confidence , or at least some incautious fringes of it , to companions not so far from his own age and under orders to ingratiate themselves with him . |
| 2 | In order to support herself , her daughter Eliza , and her son Orlando , she took up numerous , often very short-lived pursuits , including the superintendence of schools , translating , colouring prints , working in her brother 's shop in Penzance , running William Godwin 's Juvenile Library , and working as a governess for families in London and Lee Mount , Cork . |
| 3 | Now in order to move yourself forward you might need to go to excess , you might need at least to tolerate excesses . |
| 4 | Far from being an academic abstraction , the notion of discourse type is something we all use every day in order to orient ourselves towards the communication in which we are involved . |
| 5 | With all the hauteur of a Southern lady , the phrasing of her refusal was admirable : ‘ To hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is , to me , inhuman , indecent and dishonourable . |
| 6 | ‘ This is the Government that has been in touch with the SNP in order to save themselves , but has not been in touch with the Dutch government in order to save Albion , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Off balance , she had to release her grip in order to save herself , and before she knew what he was about he had tossed the pitchfork into the next stall , and kicked her feet out from under her . |
| 8 | In order to reassure himself , he might question the stranger as myself . |
| 9 | In order to reassure himself , he might question the stranger about things from my own past , recalling occasions which only I could possibly remember and comparing his answers with those that I would be likely to give . |
| 10 | It is as though we had to talk in order to reassure ourselves that we were living . |
| 11 | Most librarians prefer to divide orders amongst a number of booksellers in order to give themselves greater flexibility and a degree of control over the standards of service , and also to make use of the specializations of different dealers . |
| 12 | He only glances up at the television occasionally , as he is intent on finishing these as quickly as possible in order to give himself ti me to write a letter home to his wife . |
| 13 | Richard Baxter 's view that it was advantageous for a pastor to be celibate in order to give himself fully to the work of the ministry was well known . |
| 14 | At least he had grown beyond the need to despise people in order to give himself stature . |
| 15 | In any case , he was eager to start work upon another play and was trying to extricate himself from various official duties in order to give himself room for composition : he resigned from the board of the Christian News Letter , for example , on the grounds of lack of time . |
| 16 | Thus we have the paradox that in order to give oneself over to believing in the fiction , one 's ‘ non-belief ’ has to be secured . |
| 17 | identified themselves with the dying god , in order to dedicate themselves to the goddess . |
| 18 | His first book appeared in New York in 1920 , The Story of Doctor Dolittle , an account of the gently eccentric John Dolittle who gives up his medical practice in order to devote himself to treating animals , learning all their various languages with the help of Polynesia , his sage and authoritative parrot . |
| 19 | Hocazade soon gave up the kadilik in order to devote himself more fully to but remained as muderris in Iznik until the death of Mehmed II ( 886/1481 ) . |
| 20 | Clause 8 provides the necessary precautionary provision to prevent the buyer claiming that he has the right to intellectual property arising out of any development work which the seller has had to effect in order to put himself in a position to supply the goods under the contract . |
| 21 | In order to ingratiate himself with the populace , he rebuilt the Temple of Jerusalem on a hitherto unprecedented scale . |
| 22 | All gods made their boast in him , in order to magnify themselves with his beauty , for he is so divine … |
| 23 | It seems most likely , however , that it was a word like ‘ Teddy Boy ’ or ‘ Mod ’ or ‘ Skinhead ’ which , coming out of the popular culture of working-class London , had been adopted by youths in some localities in order to describe themselves and what they took for their common identity . |
| 24 | The middle-class children 's toy is never intended for mere amusement or pleasure ; its prime interest is its educational value , the child must absorb the toy as a challenge , something from which it will learn in order to improve itself . |
| 25 | That 's to say that men embody themselves in partial versions of themselves , and then , in order to realize themselves more fully , they have to overcome by many kinds of struggle this previous realization . |
| 26 | Tony himself suggested attending at different times each week in order to familiarize himself with different subject areas of the curriculum . |
| 27 | Spectacular rises in corn prices encouraged landlords to evict in order to farm themselves , a process which led to the creation of despoblados ; middling tenants refused to sublet and a wave of rent rises seems to have started in the 1760's . |
| 28 | He remained in detention during the rebellion but stated in a letter published in the press that he had been responsible for it , a claim which was interpreted more as a dramatic personal gesture than a statement of fact ; earlier reports stated that the rebellion had been such a surprise to him that he had requested a pistol in order to shoot himself . |
| 29 | He must have stopped in order to relieve himself and , hearing her sobs in the silence of the wood , decided to investigate . |
| 30 | To the ancient moralists the Allazon was the man who laid claim to possessions and to achievements which did not belong to him in order to exalt himself more . |