Example sentences of "[conj] attach [pn reflx] to the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Eutrophication also spawns epidemics of epiphytes , microalgae that attach themselves to the leaves and stems of underwater plants and further obstruct light . |
| 2 | Even those currents that attached themselves to the drift of labourism , and with which they often had an uneasy relationship , were pathologically infected by the same bourgeois traditions . |
| 3 | It was established that individual pathetic character once and forever by tying one end of his pocket handkerchief to a hook on , in the wall and attaching himself to the other to the performance , to , to the performance of this feat however the pocket handkerchief inside had been all he , he only cried bitterly all day and when the longest nights came on he spread his little hand before his eyes to shut out the darkness and crouching in the corner tried to sleep , everyone drawing himself closer and closer to the wall |
| 4 | It has managed to fall flat on its ‘ face ’ after climbing to the very top of the glass and attaching itself to the underside of the small glass shelf that runs along the top , which , by the way , made it almost impossible to feed . |
| 5 | The vampiros , which have wingspans of more than three feet , swoop into their thatch huts late at night and attach themselves to the sleeping miners ' heads , necks and feet . |
| 6 | With a detergent in action millions of tadpole-like components , led by their hydrophobic tails , seek out and attach themselves to the surface of dirt at any interface and congregate there in order to avoid the water . |
| 7 | This messenger RNA ( mRNA ) leaves the nucleus , enters the cytoplasm and attaches itself to the ribosome . |
| 8 | The crew swam out from under the canoe and attached themselves to the upturned hull . |
| 9 | Rattus rattus moved all over Europe and Asia , hitching rides on camel trains and on waggons and particularly on ships , and the fleas deserted the marmots and attached themselves to the rats , and the bacilli went with them . |