Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 2 | We need the discipline of opening ourselves up to compassion . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nu was no longer concerned with politics ; he devoted himself entirely to Buddhism . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When Molly Gibson in Wives and Daughters ( 1866 ) has been to visit the Towers , her father declares that he had expected to find her so ‘ polite and ceremonious ’ that he read a few chapters of Sir Charles Grandison in order to bring himself up to concert pitch . |
| 10 | Then he appeared to shake himself back to normality . |
| 11 | Hauling himself back to bed he lay awake for some time , before falling asleep . |
| 12 | Ages seemed to pass although it was only moments , until a pollen-laden grass flower tickled his nose and he sneezed himself back to life again . |
| 13 | WHILE Nick Faldo was stirring himself back to life again in the Freeport-McMoran Classic with a second round of 69 , Sandy Lyle was left contemplating what he felt was likely to be another missed cut in his final preparation for next week 's Masters . |
| 14 | Within days Charlie had lost all the profit he had made in the past year and suddenly found himself back to square one . |
| 15 | True , it seemed a curious way of implanting poison but — He pulled himself back to sanity . |
| 16 | He quickly brought himself back to earth before she gave him another dizzy spell . |
| 17 | His foot slipped and he grasped at a piece of jutting tile and dragged himself back to safety . |
| 18 | Her neighbour , after helping himself well to leg of mutton as the vast dish had at last come round to him , said ( confirming her ) , ‘ Our guest of honour is a real femme du monde . ’ |
| 19 | During the past year , he decided to devote himself completely to healing and , almost as if in response , phenomena more powerful than anything before have started to happen . |
| 20 | It was partly because he got a weird buzz out of scaring himself half to death , and partly because he felt it was a kind of exorcism , to convince him he had control over his fears — and the horrors that were waiting for him round the corner of sleep . |
| 21 | While the empire was being gradually reduced to a fraction of its former size , the court gave itself over to pleasure and sensuality . |
| 22 | Councillor Rosie was appalled that the paper was American , outlining aspects of child abuse , what to look for , and how to confirm suspicions ; it was also nearly ten years old , written by an ‘ expert ’ who had been discredited in his own country , and certainly did n't signify that the council was keeping itself up to date on matters of such importance . |
| 23 | It is incredible that the Labour party , which has reformed itself and brought itself up to date in so many other policies , is going back to an old policy on local government finance . |
| 24 | ‘ a museum to the depression , failing to hype itself back to prosperity in the fashion of Glasgow and Newcastle … stuck in the past , in a timewarp of Beatlemania and class solidarity . ’ |
| 25 | Longing now to jump back on board , Mungo watched as the mighty engine woke from its doze and heaved itself back to wakefulness with huge , slow piston strokes . |
| 26 | They reject them as calumnies which are confuted by conscious experience , and adroitly overlook the faint indications through which the unconscious is apt to betray itself even to consciousness . |
| 27 | ‘ IBM is tying itself strongly to Unix , ’ said director of the new division Jean-Louis Descharreaux . |
| 28 | Ivory also lends itself readily to ornamentation . |
| 29 | Nature study is another subject which lends itself readily to drawing and painting . |
| 30 | The dairy-type conformation does not lend itself readily to beef production and though steers will fatten they grow rather slowly . |