Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] themselves to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very few men took clerical orders in the hope of devoting themselves to pastoral work at parish or diocesan level . |
| 2 | Police surveillance made communication between different groups difficult , while separate circles and indeed individuals were acutely suspicious of submitting themselves to any centralized underground authority even in the interests of ‘ the cause ’ . |
| 3 | People who are on intimate terms are incapable of expressing themselves to each other , ’ said the thin , melancholy Feiffer . |
| 4 | When times are hard financially , many people feel very anxious at the thought of committing themselves to another baby . |
| 5 | The current study shows that Hand is likely to have retrieved the vast majority of derived papers , and it is suggested that studies in other subject fields would be statistically safe in limiting themselves to similar time periods . |
| 6 | The current study shows that Hand is likely to have retrieved the vast majority of derived papers , and it is suggested that studies in other subject fields would be statistically safe in limiting themselves to similar time periods . |
| 7 | Their task of containing their adversaries , without committing themselves to outright attack , had been well and truly done . ’ |
| 8 | The best way of doing this was by attaching themselves to one of their country 's missions abroad , serving in it in a junior and normally unpaid capacity and thus acquiring experience of diplomatic methods and routines as well as of a foreign country . |