Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pn reflx] [verb] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | After lobster in Sligo , eaten late and washed down with Macon Villages , they took the southward route to Charlestown , on the landward side of Slieve Gamph , then on to Claremorris and Tuam , because Rory said he did n't trust himself to take the coastal roads , to get too near the sea . |
| 2 | The cap that happened to get overlooked returns the reader 's gaze blankly yet unavoidably , like the bill from a restaurant abroad which the conspirators find when they turn out the dead man 's pockets , and like the child 's clay whistle which one of them has provided himself with to give the agreed signal — for he has lost so many teeth that he ca n't trust himself to produce the sound naturally . |
| 3 | Ceauşescu could trust himself to play the liberal , but he could not be certain of Gorbachev 's real intentions . |
| 4 | Cassie , who by now was trembling so violently that she could not trust herself to lift the loaded tray , said lightly : ‘ Take the tray , will you , Jenny ? |
| 5 | Only then would ministers steel themselves to introduce the unpleasant but indispensable reform measures . |
| 6 | But we do pledge ourselves to undertake the task with energy and determination , confident that in the full-time life of our Parliament we can make a great advance in industrial prosperity . |
| 7 | Will the Hon. Gentleman pledge himself to renationalise the steel industry ? |
| 8 | That done , he can busy himself getting the Uruguay round 's warring parties back to the negotiating table . |
| 9 | Guillaume , it appears , did not exert himself to keep the promise and Modigliani repeatedly asked Zbo about them . |
| 10 | But he still could n't bring himself to touch the trigger . |
| 11 | In Yohei 's case , this collapses into a craven botch — hilariously acted by Ryo Amamiya — in which he more or less accidentally dispatches his wife but ca n't bring himself to take the plunge and throw himself into the river as promised . |
| 12 | It was as if he could n't bring himself to say the word ‘ marriage ’ . |
| 13 | He could not bring himself to say the words , so great was his terror of plague . |
| 14 | Though Musgrave did not bring himself to ask the soldier what he had seen , his impression was ‘ that Aimable had not been fattened up to the mark of the visitor 's large expectations ’ . |
| 15 | Leopold 's tragedy was that of a parent whose cherished child spurns his advice in adolescent rebellion ; but , unlike , for example , Alessandro Scarlatti , another musician father with a son more brilliant than himself , Leopold could never quite bring himself to untie the emotional leashes and allow his own ‘ young eagle whose wings are grown ’ to find his own way in the world . |
| 16 | The fourth book featured a scene in which a man planned to write a letter to his Father and Mother telling them of his new-found happiness , but he never could bring himself to write the letter . |
| 17 | Important as were his contacts with the Frankish rulers for his preaching in Hesse and Thuringia , he could scarcely bring himself to share the company of the fast-living Frankish bishops whom he met at court — Milo of Trier ‘ and others like him ’ , as he said dismissively — until his mentor , Bishop Daniel of Winchester , had to cite to him texts from Augustine and the Bible against separating oneself from sinners and in favour of dissimulation . |
| 18 | Lung cancer victim Roy could not bring himself to shake the hand of the former Prime Minister , who is said to earn £550,000 as a consultant for US tobacco giant Philip Morris . |
| 19 | At the last Arlott could not bring himself to sign the contract . |
| 20 | He had tried several times at a local shooting range but he could n't bring himself to pull the trigger . |
| 21 | When the flap of the tent was disturbed it began to shudder , but hunger was now so powerful a force in its life that it could not bring itself to leave the stench of the kill . |
| 22 | Overpoweringly jealous of the revolutionary claims of the Provincial Juntas , it could not bring itself to recognize the legality of their offspring . ’ |
| 23 | It was Lexy 's voice and imagined image that tormented her , though she could n't bring herself to pronounce the name . |
| 24 | But there was no way she could bring herself to like the other woman , even though she suspected that , had the circumstances been different , she would have warmed to her immediately . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm so pleased he got round , ’ remarked Miss Sanders , who was hobbling around with her left foot in a plastic bag after breaking her ankle in a schooling accident and could scarcely bring herself to watch the race . |
| 26 | Penny asked for help but could n't bring herself to explain the cause of her depression . |
| 27 | For a moment Louisa could not bring herself to answer the frail smile . |
| 28 | She could n't quite bring herself to say the word aloud , but Luke had none of her reservations . |
| 29 | Elizabeth said that ( like myself ) she could never bring herself to utter the words ‘ Natter and Noggin' ; and she never had any need to do so , for that establishment was no longer in existence when she visited Kyrenia eighteen years later — and she rather liked the place . |
| 30 | Betty Rizzo suggests that Leapor 's metaphor is a sign of her limitations as a poet ; she can not bring herself to write the simple word ‘ mayfly ’ [ Rizzo ] . |