Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We end up with the Shakespeare we knew savaged and refashioned in the Laureate 's own image with ‘ an almost pathological psychic alienation from the culture within which his plays triumphed ’ : the Blackamoor , the naked , essential man , hovelled with swine , revealing himself to Lear and to Timon in their extremity . |
| 3 | Arnulf achieved his goal , thereby opening himself to charges of duplicity . |
| 4 | If not it seems to me possible that Summerchild could be opening himself to proceedings under the Official Secrets Act . |
| 5 | As well as giving him moral ascendancy over the rest of the company , driving himself to exhaustion might also cloud critical judgement , so that comments would be made on the effort that had gone into the show rather than on its quality . ) |
| 6 | More likely , they said , was that China would continue to modernise its economy , so that by 1997 the situation would be more one of China 's adjusting to Hong Kong , than of Hong Kong 's trimming itself to China . |
| 7 | Film Fun laughing itself to death in the coal fire . |
| 8 | Rose shut herself into her office , grimly applying herself to routine . |
| 9 | Here is the reality of the European idea' : a Community whose finest administrative minds devote themselves to deciding whether a carrot is a vegetable or a fruit , whose political leaders discuss not so much ambitious as fantastic plans for military integration — and which can not in practice prevent Europeans tearing themselves to pieces and destroying part of what it is not exaggerated to call our European heritage . ’ |
| 10 | These arise from a household 's obligation to devote many unpaid hours of work to caring for its dependent members , and from the fact that some households have only one fit person of working age who has to choose between doing this , or going out to earn a living , or driving themselves to exhaustion trying to do both . |
| 11 | They later intervened on his behalf when he was investigated for criminal fraud , thereby opening themselves to allegations of having accepted bribes . |
| 12 | I 'm gon na have to start explaining myself to people a bit more actually |
| 13 | But you did n't have to keep explaining yourself to May . |
| 14 | Now would you rather answer my questions , or try explaining yourself to Marshal Davout at headquarters ? ’ |
| 15 | However , although at this stage the inner reaches of PCF life , the practical realities of daily party cultural work , were slowly revealing themselves to Nizan , his intellectual and ideological development was still very much dominated by sectarian rhetoric and abstract , idealised images of a better future destined to arise from the overthrow of capitalism . |
| 16 | His attendance at the Royal Society dwindled after the early 1670s , and he evidently divided his time between London and Deepdene , devoting himself to horticultural , alchemical , and other pursuits . |
| 17 | He , after all , was a member of an unbeaten Edinburgh Academy XV as a 15-year-old before devoting himself to athletics en route to becoming an international sprinter . |
| 18 | Attaching himself to Sien was like fastening himself to something that was eternal , that never changed , for all its mad fits and perversity . |
| 19 | When the Reeve likens himself to an " " open-ers " " he associates himself with Nicholas in the tale just passed , and can thus be attributed with the same wry self-reflection as the Miller shows in attaching himself to John the carpenter . |
| 20 | Dr. Stevie was helping himself to bacon and eggs from the sideboard . |
| 21 | ‘ Maybe , ’ he agreed , helping himself to coffee , the look he sent her slightly wary . |
| 22 | Wandering into the wardroom , she found Jim Lewis helping himself to coffee and Jill already seated , glancing through a magazine . |
| 23 | It might be very unwise to accost him , to ask him just what he thought he was doing — trespassing and helping himself to food . |
| 24 | ‘ Ye 've two fine lads there , Barney , ’ Malachi said , addressing himself to Bull O'Malley . |
| 25 | The memory caused another burst of general laughter ; then Percy , addressing himself to Peggy , explained , ‘ We were giving this concert in this old people 's home . |
| 26 | ‘ Rather foolish of the IRB , would n't you say , ’ Carew went on calmly , addressing himself to Regan and plainly ignoring Harrison , ‘ entrusting their funds to a man who was imprisoned for embezzlement . ’ |
| 27 | Again ( where Pound 's addressing himself to Americans is especially evident ) : |
| 28 | Up the Empire ! ’ to a group of communist students from the UK gathered at the bar of his hotel , promises to do something about the ‘ blooming awful ’ state of Soviet plumbing and ends up making a deal with Stalin with the insouciance of George Formby addressing himself to Hitler . |
| 29 | Addressing herself to Jos , but winking at Mungo , Alice said : ‘ Well , just you mind you behave yourself now . ’ |
| 30 | Dionne went for the outlaw type , or so she said , then mothered and civilised them until they were unrecognisable , and when her dream of civilised and raunchy equality went out the slammed door , there she was alone again , smoking a little more than usual , drinking a little more than necessary and swearing herself to celibacy until the next sulky brow slouched into view and stole her hopeful heart away . |