Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not allow himself to fall in love with a girl so obviously a part of the world of wealth and consequence which he had abandoned . |
| 2 | For the rest , his exceptionally loyal publisher , James Laughlin of New Direc - tions , exerts himself to keep in print as much as possible . |
| 3 | For a moment Trent allowed himself to believe in rescue . |
| 4 | There was a terrible urge within her to just run away and hide , curl up into a tiny ball and forget that she had made such a stupid , stupid mistake by allowing herself to fall in love with someone as ruthless and cold as Luke Denner . |
| 5 | It was empty , as empty as her head had been in Seville when she had allowed herself to fall in love so easily . |
| 6 | She could not bring herself to believe in Evil with a capital E , as personified in a spirit-being called Satan or the Devil . |
| 7 | But can she allow herself to get in touch with that needy infant inside her adult self , or does she always have to be the carer , the non-greedy adult , leaving Bob Halton to express all the emotional greed for them both ? |
| 8 | She lay rigid , not allowing herself to move in case she should disturb the others . |
| 9 | Normal grasses , clovers , and arable crops require brown earth soils ; heathers , rushes , and coniferous trees have adapted themselves to thrive in podzol conditions . |
| 10 | If so , they might persuade the queue members to bind themselves to wait in line , and to punish transgressors . |
| 11 | According to representatives at the conference from China , developing countries can often do a lot themselves to advance in space technology . |
| 12 | … I wish that men would give themselves to meditate in silence on what we have by the Sacrament , and less to discuss the manner how . ’ |
| 13 | For another ten years not a soul had dared enter it , until the snake-hunters steeled themselves to descend in pursuit of a python which had consumed a child in the dry season of 1969 . |
| 14 | Under the pressure of the age-discrimination lobby , people have half-learned the lesson , but they can not bring themselves to believe in aptitude , rather than age . |