Example sentences of "[verb] resign [pn reflx] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was actually satisfied with that , if only because I 'd resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never be thin , ’ she admits . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't do it grudgingly , I 'd resigned myself to the fact that football was his burning passion . |
| 3 | The team may have resigned itself to a fixtureless season but there is some small consolation . |
| 4 | By now I had covered a fair expanse of this wood , and I had resigned myself to the fact that this would be the earliest I would get , regardless of what was in the ground . |
| 5 | About three weeks later , Jenny had resigned herself to the fact that she would stay . |
| 6 | When at 10.45am we had resigned ourselves to a day of swimming and sunbathing a farmer pulled up and asked , in German , if we were waiting for him . |
| 7 | Both UDF and RPR have resigned themselves to a two year ‘ cohabitation ’ under the Socialist presidency of Francois Mitterrand . |
| 8 | The trend indicates that as the date for reauthorisation approaches , liberals have resigned themselves to the fact the NEA chairmanship is not a rostrum for ethics , but a political post . |
| 9 | But in Russia the masses refused to do so , refused to resign themselves to an indefinite period of subjection to capitalist exploitation . |