Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pn reflx] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father said " We 'll restrict ourselves to speech and writing . |
| 2 | Now , shall we confine ourselves to business ? |
| 3 | Discussion in this chapter will confine itself to evaluation within an established institution . |
| 4 | He suggested , as I describe earlier , that the NHS should confine itself to health care , and local authorities should be responsible for social care . |
| 5 | They did not confine themselves to church attendance nor to their concern for church buildings , but endeavoured to follow Christian principles in their everyday lives . |
| 6 | Left alone , the place would rapidly choke itself to death , it seemed . |
| 7 | On her return , she told Jack she must see his leader , so he sent one of the lads with the message , and the answer came back that Ariel could present herself to Kit . |
| 8 | I think — I will give myself to G.P. |
| 9 | When I was with him I was in a more or less permanent state of sexual excitement , and I could bring myself to orgasm just by looking at him , without the aid of hands . |
| 10 | So do bear those things in mind , because part of today and yesterday has been saying to you , how you can present yourselves to radio and T V in such a way that you 're not only experts in your specific subjects , but you are sufficiently expert in the techniques that go to make up good radio , that people will say , ‘ Let's have so-and-so back again . |
| 11 | Acute , function-related pain is primarily sensory or peripheral , and may lend itself to treatment with analgesics directed to the involved organ . |
| 12 | Information on employees may exist on a company 's mini or mainframe computer but is stored in a form not usually usable or accessible by the personnel department , and mainframe information does not lend itself to interrogation on a real time basis . |
| 13 | In terms of the the A nineteen also I think scores reasonably highly on this criterion , the A nineteen south cos again I I would have thought that it does lend itself to assimilation of a new settlement . |
| 14 | This morphology does not lend itself to analysis after conventional staining since only a few of the autosomes show distinguishing features in the form of secondary constrictions ( Figure 3a ) and , of the sex chromosomes , only the Y of some strains can be recognized by virtue of occasionally visible unique features ( Figure 3a ) . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , because of their omission from citation , the role of such ephemeral , non-rigorous , or incomplete data in the communication process in geology does not lend itself to citation analysis . |
| 16 | We are invited by the story-teller to believe that the part-random , part-intended day-to-day course of life would lend itself to discipline , with a beginning , a middle and an end . |
| 17 | It does not immediately lend itself to action on the part of the adviser . |
| 18 | But Sheila 's situation does not lend itself to action . |
| 19 | THE NINETEENTH century could never reconcile itself to Cosi fan tutte , that most consistently inspired of great operas . |
| 20 | A resident of the rainforests of the Indonesian islands of Sulawesi , Buru Taliabu and Mangole , the babirusa may be the only animal in the world that given time , can gore itself to death . |
| 21 | And then I thought I would write and suggest that she should suggest herself to tea one day and not only did she have the effrontery to do so but she brought her husband . |
| 22 | The possibility that I might starve myself to death was never raised : instead I was scolded for looking like a scarecrow , and my mother told me that she was ashamed to be seen with me . |
| 23 | Well you can take yourself to hospital . |
| 24 | Whereas the , the heaters that were installed went on thermostatically controlled and er when you went in the morning , the place was nice and warm and you could apply yourself to work right away . |
| 25 | Although Marx and Engels did not systematically apply themselves to crime and its treatment , they too showed some ambivalence in their attitudes to the status of crime under capitalism . |
| 26 | Just after the war , I taught in a grammar school , and one day the French assistante said to me , ’ This school will clap itself to death . ’ |
| 27 | I begin to believe that the House will clap itself to death one day . |
| 28 | I see no reason why people should drink themselves to death . |
| 29 | I do n't pass myself to tape recorder |
| 30 | On Christmas morning , Murphy brought the carriage round to the front door long before Alexandra could send him a message to say she would drive herself to church . |