Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A surgeon who immediately welcomed news of chloroform could reasonably claim always to have been aware of the pain although he had disciplined himself not to heed it . |
| 2 | Both countries committed themselves not to attack or invade the other , and to resolve disputes through a process of dialogue . |
| 3 | In The Hague with Sien he had given himself over to light , like a Myshkin who was all love , meek as a lamb , becoming the woman 's servant and in this roundabout fashion returning himself to infancy . |
| 4 | Recognizing the value of promises from the British government , the community has organized itself locally to block BP Coal 's operations . |
| 5 | As home secretary , he had psyched himself up to batter the police unions and the chief constables , but on penal policy he was pushed to find anything in the agenda of Tony Blair , his Labour counterpart , to quarrel with . |
| 6 | Dr Colin Patten , general manager of the Down-Lisburn Unit , said the hospital had geared itself up to deal with more patients . |
| 7 | Dr Colin Patten , general manager of the Down-Lisburn Unit , said the hospital had geared itself up to deal with more patients . |
| 8 | It is quite natural that the differing classes of local authorities have banded themselves together to watch their respective interests . |
| 9 | ‘ When I was 16 I would have died for a cream cake , but how I 've brainwashed myself not to want them . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ In which time Inspector Cotton , and his minion Sergeant Mack , have bestirred themselves sufficiently to write the case off as a killing during petty larceny ! |
| 11 | not so much in the earliest days , when US producers had not yet sufficiently geared themselves up to satisfy the demands of their market , so that British exports to the States were largely unproblematic . |
| 12 | Bambi , it seemed to me , had taught herself not to care for Sheridan so as not to be hurt by him . |
| 13 | Breeze had now recovered herself sufficiently to ask if she might ring up Susan , which she did — explaining where she was , but reserving the details till later . |
| 14 | She had been expecting changes and had steeled herself not to resent them . |
| 15 | But she had steeled herself not to believe a word that he said . |
| 16 | And they have adapted themselves here to become ordinary girls-next-door . |
| 17 | He lived the part of a blind man so much so that he tripped and fell after leaving the set and damaged the cornea of his eye because he had trained himself not to blink ! |
| 18 | An eminent psychologist has remarked that a man in a mood is almost as if in the grip of a small psychosis , and can find himself helpless in the face of it , unless he has trained himself not to identify with it too strongly . |
| 19 | She had trained herself not to look at men , a restraint that was n't difficult to practise in this case . |
| 20 | But on closer investigation it turns out that she has trained herself only to like healthy food . |
| 21 | that 's right and you know that if the staff has put theirselves out to make a decent crash in their environment they 're gon na go mad at the children if they muck it up , so therefore , you know , you 're gon na have that |
| 22 | To Comfort , they seemed as anxious as she to ignore the war and they had put themselves out to entertain her during her visit . |
| 23 | After they have put themselves out to help , the other person makes it clear that help was n't wanted . |
| 24 | To what I suppose would happen possibly about eighty percent of the time , where you 're working , you 've worked yourself off to do a superb drawing of a house all day , and er , the branch manager or whoever it may be , is walking round passing quotes , and walks off not really showing any general interest in this superb picture I 've just spent all my time doing . |
| 25 | Yet I have taught myself not to feel discontent . |
| 26 | This is where some fault or other has manifested itself sufficiently to affect the flight , though the critical event might have happened quite a long time before and been ‘ cooking up ’ until the divergence took place . |
| 27 | You 've no idea how many times I 've willed myself not to say that — and won . ’ |