Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pn reflx] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | My brother prior has himself testified to her powers of grace , and says plainly that no man has been found to own that he carried the reliquary . |
| 2 | The novelist has himself referred to the self-generating quality of these works : he seems to provide the reader with a metaphor of the construction of narrative . |
| 3 | Michael Caine stars as cat burglar Henry Clarke , a master jewel thief who has himself committed to a sanatorium for alcoholics to gain the confidence of a multi-millionaire . |
| 4 | The fair has itself moved to Spring Bank Holiday Monday , and though there are still large crowds , there are not the thousands for whom this was one of the highlights of the year . |
| 5 | But in addition , the strategy LDDC chose to adopt has itself contributed to the problems they now face : |
| 6 | She only has herself to talk to and all she is able to say is ‘ I would that I were dead . ’ |
| 7 | Note the lack of direct empirical support and the abstract character of the argument ; Shils himself admits to his approach being ‘ tentative and provisional … an attempt to elucidate things … of great importance but which are very obscure ’ . |
| 8 | The Angel of the Lord : Without diminishing his deity , he accommodates himself to speak to man : Genesis 16:7f. ; Judges 13:16f. , etc . |
| 9 | In this vision — a kind of ‘ flash-forward ’ in fantasy — Jesus sees himself married to the Magdalene ( for whom he has lusted all through the book ) and fathering a family upon her . |
| 10 | Another member of the quintet , one Lyamshin , a post-office clerk , gets himself asked to parties where ‘ he would give imitations of a pig , a thunder storm , a confinement , with the first cry of the baby , etc. , etc. ; that was what he was invited for ’ ; and later we hear of him ‘ mimicking , when requested , various types of jews , a deaf peasant woman making her confession , or the birth of a child … ’ . |
| 11 | A very young man has shot himself and ‘ we ’ ride off in an inquisitive Gadarene ‘ cavalcade ’ ( ‘ our ladies had never seen a suicide ’ ) to view the corpse ; ‘ everything 's so boring ’ — recall Marya Lebyadkin 's words — ‘ one ca n't afford to be squeamish about one 's amusements so long as they are fun ’ ; and Lyamshin , the man who gets himself asked to parties to mimic women in labour , new-born babies , and peasants in the confessional , steals a bunch of grapes from the room of death . |
| 12 | At the age of 30 , he finds himself consigned to the sidelines without even the consolation of a drop down the soccer ladder . |
| 13 | At the age of 30 , he finds himself consigned to the sidelines without even the consolation of a drop down the soccer ladder . |
| 14 | It will deflect attention from the language itself : acting as an authentic user , the learner denies himself access to the necessary data for learning . |
| 15 | ‘ I know , I understand : one lays oneself open to this sort of thing with animals . |
| 16 | Psychology recognizes the importance of representing women and men equally in samples , and declares itself committed to achieving a better understanding of how sex and gender affect subjects . |
| 17 | What he leaves himself amounts to a prize-giving for English composition with the sea as the subject . |
| 18 | Under the new covenant Yahweh makes himself present to his people as Spirit ( which seems to be the meaning of ‘ Now the Lord is the Spirit ’ 2 Cor 3:17 ) ; d such his presence IS constant , unwithdrawn and steady The divine presence , concentrated in Christ , and universalised through his death and resurrection , becomes available to transform his people . |
| 19 | Keith makes himself go to work . |
| 20 | Must not theology , if it were to be possible at all , be established from the other side , by God himself — by the God who makes himself known to us in Jesus Christ rather than the God whom we choose to recognise in him , a God who comes from beyond ourselves to judge , redeem and save ? |