Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And because we 'd found self-esteem , we had the courage to go and sell ourselves successfully to employers . |
| 2 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 3 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 4 | ‘ For Gawd 's sake , let's get ourselves back to Whitechapel where we belong , ’ said Sal . |
| 5 | That should change this year , for in the first innings of Lincolnshire 's match against Norfolk , Love put himself on to bowl his offbreaks and took 6 for 18 . |
| 6 | Instinctively , Jack flung himself on to Steve , but he simply pushed him away . |
| 7 | He forced himself on to hands and knees , obeying like a dog , without question . |
| 8 | Edward , however , was still reluctant to commit himself wholeheartedly to Balliol 's cause . |
| 9 | ‘ You and Miss Smith can go now , McGee , ’ said Wheeler curtly , addressing himself only to McGee . |
| 10 | A practising engineer until the age of forty , Albert Ayme did not throw away his slide-rule and set-square when he decided to devote himself entirely to painting . |
| 11 | Nu was no longer concerned with politics ; he devoted himself entirely to Buddhism . |
| 12 | From the time of the Russian counter-offensive in mid-November 1942 , the Wehrmacht reports — seen and amended by Hitler himself — were largely silent about Stalingrad , and Goebbels , probably not fully informed of the true situation , confined himself largely to warnings about the severity of the struggle and the need to avoid the impression that a decisive stroke was imminent . |
| 13 | A real detective superintendent investigating a murder will confine himself largely to facts and only at the height of questioning someone he is almost certain is his quarry is he likely to go into motivation as a way , as often as not , of bring about a final confession . |
| 14 | But he thought it a reasonable request to ask for a route and he took himself away to Tara 's great map room to procure maps for them . |
| 15 | Like many of the heroes of his novels — notably Moira , recently reissued in English by Quartet Books — he is someone who gave himself over to pleasure in his youth , travelling endlessly in search of new sensations , both enslaved to sensuality and contemptuous of it — in his own words , ‘ crucified by sex ’ . |
| 16 | He was deserted by Desiderius and retreated to St Bertrand de Comminges , where he was eventually deserted by his other leading followers ; finally he was tricked into handing himself over to Guntram 's generals and was killed . |
| 17 | A punch would be delivered and Ricky , thinking this had ended the row would take himself off to bed only to find the next minute that Minton was emptying a bottle of water over him . |
| 18 | Aware that the situation was getting out of hand and unable to cope any more with their triangular relationship , Norman took himself off to Cornwall . |
| 19 | At other times he craved solitude and took himself off to Balmoral to fish , paint and stalk deer . |
| 20 | And yet he had n't directly experienced the fighting in the city ; at the first sign of trouble his mother had packed Senga and himself off to England . |
| 21 | As soon as he was of age he took himself off to London to work as a merchant 's clerk . |
| 22 | Take himself off to Yzordderrex and set up business with Peccable ; marry Hoi-Polloi despite her crossed eyes ; have a litter of kids and retire to the Hills of the Conscious Cloud , in the Third , and raise parrots . |
| 23 | So , when a couple named Holt decided to bring their marriage to an end , Mr Holt took himself off to Reno and filed a divorce suit . |
| 24 | This qualification can be taken as either a post-graduate or a post-experience course and is equally relevant to a young graduate starting a career in management or to an older man with some experience of management , who wishes to bring himself up to date with the latest practice . |
| 25 | It is scarcely possible that the most incisive speaker and planner should have had to drive himself up to Newcastle for a meeting the other day — and in a car without a telephone . |
| 26 | He gave himself up to police later that night and said he had drunk two cans of lager . |
| 27 | He later gave himself up to police . |
| 28 | A four-hour siege has ended peacefully after an armed man gave himself up to police . |
| 29 | The next day he gave himself up to police . |
| 30 | They saw a news item about the deaths on television and advised Gore to give himself up to police . |