Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the first visit he was in such low spirits he could not bring himself to meet even the faithful Cottle ; during the second , in early April , optimism and humour had sufficiently returned for him to relish a meeting with one especially talkative woman on his homeward walk . |
| 2 | Not allowing himself to glance down the passage in the direction of Madeleine 's bedroom , Harry descended the big staircase and went out of the house . |
| 3 | With his latest southern signings , Harry Kenny and Ray Duffy , arriving after the deadline for Europe , Walker could be forced into a comeback himself to make up the numbers . |
| 4 | While wrinkles may be beginning to appear on Sun 's ONC — and the market waits on a fully-configured commercial DCE package — NobleNet is positioning itself to mop up the interim business , targeting developers with mixed proprietary and open architectures and non-communicating RPC 's . |
| 5 | ‘ Pool could n't make a copy of itself to send down the cable : it did n't have anything like enough data storage space . |
| 6 | Civilisation , which is wholly controlled by man himself , should never have been allowed to develop without the unquestioning acceptance of the inexorable power of the evolutionary process itself to lay down the basic pattern of human behaviour . |
| 7 | She could not bring herself to fall down the house stairs . |
| 8 | And would be more so when she could steel herself to pinch out the little chin and make it weak . |
| 9 | She and Jim talked together secretly about leaving the house and going off to somewhere ‘ more committed ’ , but Phoebe could not bring herself to give up the only home she knew of , could not bring herself to choose absolutely Jim 's commitments over the women 's commitments . |
| 10 | Moving on automatic pilot , she forced herself to tidy up the make-up room , washing sponges and organising the cosmetics she 'd need the following evening when the play had its first-night performance . |
| 11 | With an effort Lisa forced herself to swallow back the feeling and kept her voice devoid of emotion as she countered , ‘ If it 's so appealing then why do you feel the need to suppress it ? ’ |
| 12 | Robyn forced herself to think through the fog , to recall what had happened the night before . |
| 13 | Ever since I ran away from Thornfield , Mr Rochester had remained in my thoughts , and now , as I stood at my cottage door that first evening , looking at the quiet fields , I allowed myself to imagine again the life I could have had with him in his little white house in the south of France . |
| 14 | They wrapped old sacks round themselves to keep out the cold . |
| 15 | What impressed them most was that ActionAid works with the people themselves to decide how the money should be used to help the whole community . |