Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pn reflx] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether you decide on a honeymoon at home or you 're planning a trip abroad it 's a wonderful excuse to treat yourself to a couple of new outfits for the beach and it 's essential to look after yourself and protect against the sun 's more harmful rays . |
| 2 | The gang helped themselves to a video , leather jacket , private letters plus bits and pieces to the tune of £1,000 before fleeing . |
| 3 | The story begins on a May morning in 1991 , when Brian Mattison awoke early to see a heron helping himself to a fish breakfast . |
| 4 | Under the terms of an agreement , signed on July 14 , the two parties committed themselves to a temporary truce from July 19 to be followed by a complete ceasefire on July 31 . |
| 5 | The hills , lakes and coast lend themselves to a variety of outdoor pursuits such as fell walking , mountaineering , pony-trekking , fishing , sailing , canoeing and swimming . |
| 6 | Within years their cotton plants were decimated by a tiny bug and the Sutherlands resigned themselves to a meagre living from farming . |
| 7 | Go on Richard help yourself to a drink . |
| 8 | Then it seemed that the Lebanese civil war was one of those historical tragedies in which opposing communities fought themselves to a standstill only to be reconciled by a central government and foreign economic assistance . |
| 9 | Cornelius announced himself to a desk clerk who wore a badge saying , ‘ Hello my name is Danny ’ . |
| 10 | He prefers the charcoal drawing to the full garish canvas , and this is why , I think , the songs work so well , because , as we listen , individual responses suggest themselves to a line , or a turn of phrase , which by inference , creates a greater sense of empathy and involvement for the listener . |
| 11 | He never earned a degree , but an allowance from his mother gave him the financial independence to devote himself to a career as writer . |
| 12 | Each city , town or village lends itself to a collage in some odd way . |
| 13 | The word consultant lends itself to a very wide interpretation and many food service operators , and particularly hotel operators , believe they are all capable of being food service consultants . |
| 14 | One day , during a recreation period , Lexandro betook himself to a scriptory to study — only to discover that both of his ‘ brothers ’ were already ensconced there , although at data consoles some distance apart . |
| 15 | I was content to be on my own , glad that I should have no need to accommodate myself to a fellow-countryman , that any decisions in the days ahead would be entirely mine . |
| 16 | Through this attempt the Restoration lent itself to a repetition of the earlier struggle between King and Commons . |
| 17 | Morris helped himself to a couple of lungfuls of cigarette smoke . |
| 18 | The agreement followed a NATO meeting in London on July 5-6 when member countries redefined the organization 's strategies and goals , and NATO committed itself to a limitation of the size of Germany 's armed forces [ see pp. 37599-600 ] . |
| 19 | Most of today 's great tournament fighters on the world circuits limit themselves to a few techniques that work best for them . |
| 20 | With a pink carpet and green walls , the room lends itself to a Christmas colour theme of red and green . |
| 21 | He seemed to think it evidence of a malignant fate that he had had the misfortune to link himself to a succession of mad women . |
| 22 | Councillors had an understandable reluctance to commit themselves to a political course which would deprive them of access to patronage , and it was for this reason that it was necessary for politicians to provide demonstrations of power . |
| 23 | The British Prime Minister , John Major , has spoken out against the US 's refusal to commit itself to a declaration concerning targets and schedules aimed at controlling emissions of greenhouse gasses . |
| 24 | It would seem that a vicar exposed himself to a young lady of tender years on Devil 's Bridge sometime in the 1800s . |
| 25 | The vast majority of cross-national case studies confine themselves to a narrow range of countries : United States , Japan , Scandinavia , France , West Germany , Italy and the United Kingdom ; and to a lesser extent , Canada and the smaller northern and central European countries ( notably Holland and Austria ) . |
| 26 | In September 1990 the respondent appeared with his new employer at the wholesale locksmith 's , and during the sales assistant 's brief absence the respondent helped himself to a key-cutting machine from stock . |
| 27 | Vitor helped himself to a slice of gammon . |
| 28 | Had separatism confined itself to a political context , then however violent the discussion , its impact and effects would not have been a fraction of what they are . |
| 29 | For Spender , it makes no sense for reformists to restrict themselves to a small set of targets like generic pronouns and man . |
| 30 | In June 1991 all EC members except the UK committed themselves to a minimum standard VAT rate of 15 per cent from January 1993 [ see p. 38297 ] . |