Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would have given herself to a man for whom she was nothing but another short-term conquest , and in a year , or six months , or however long it took him to tire of her , she would have found herself alone again . |
| 2 | Without it , she could not have given herself to him so completely . |
| 3 | If , however , C.N.L. were to fail , they would have exposed themselves to the additional financial perils involved in advancing an insupportable plea of justification . |
| 4 | Otherwise ( the point is surely an obvious one ) he would have limited himself to verbal argument . |
| 5 | This may be a simple oversight on the part of the authors of the pamphlet , or it may reflect the thought that since those who attend these colleges would have committed themselves to staying at them until they were 18 ( and such a commitment would be a condition of entry ) , there would be no need for them to take a ‘ school-leaving ’ examination at 16+ . |
| 6 | He must have supposed himself to be using a language absolutely purged of metaphor when he wrote at the grand climax of the Discourse on method |
| 7 | The name Tolkien , he once remarked in a letter , is based on the German word for foolhardy : which is what , when he finally had his huge romance published , he must have supposed himself to be . |
| 8 | ' I do n't think he would have trusted himself to be married , ’ the actor remembered for me . |
| 9 | The team may have resigned itself to a fixtureless season but there is some small consolation . |
| 10 | It seemed to Harriet that Liza must have unburdened herself to Dr Forman rather than her own mother and somehow this increased her sense of resentment . |
| 11 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
| 12 | Theoretically , the Council should have been a cross-section of the people socially ( as we have seen it was geographically ) : its members were appointed by lot , they served only for a year at a time , so that the Councillors should not have felt themselves to be a cohesive hereditary body like the old Areopagus or the ( semi-hereditary ) Roman Senate , and they could not serve more than twice in their lives . |
| 13 | The same scenario must have presented itself to Randy , Mitch and Noel . |
| 14 | It must have transmitted itself to the patients , for even they gave up after their initial attempts at jollity , and by mid-morning a definite air of gloom seemed to have settled over the place . |
| 15 | I would n't have lent myself to any schemes like that . |
| 16 | It is a consideration which I should have applied myself to the assessment of general damages to favour this plaintiff . |
| 17 | keith richardson says that Gloucester made basic errors and could have helped themselves to nineteen points … you ca n't afford to make such errors against a team like Bath and in the end things went badly wrong |
| 18 | You could have cut yourself to ribbons . ’ |
| 19 | He must have worried himself to death just because he was afraid to tell me . ’ |
| 20 | Although I know that in these matters there is almost no limit to what people will do , I am horrified that Victoria should have subjected herself to an Aids test and — as I have heard happens — the offers of emotional counselling and financial advice . |
| 21 | How could they have allowed themselves to be consumed ? |
| 22 | He could perhaps have submitted himself to some army medical board , but whether they would have enthused over the application of a 48-year-old epileptic syphilitic with no military experience except that acquired while shooting wild-life in the desert |
| 23 | The same legend may have attached itself to tree clumps as well . |
| 24 | I would have flogged myself to the death up to the end . |
| 25 | You should have dedicated yourself to bringing up your child … . ’ |