Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pn reflx] to an " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would like to se the political parties commiting themselves to an overhaul of the sentencing process to make it more rational and civilised . |
| 2 | When the Reeve likens himself to an " " open-ers " " he associates himself with Nicholas in the tale just passed , and can thus be attributed with the same wry self-reflection as the Miller shows in attaching himself to John the carpenter . |
| 3 | Various possibilities present themselves to an active lad . |
| 4 | Giger was asked to produce designs not only for the full-grown monster , especially its head , but also for the two earlier stages , the ‘ face-hugger ’ ( the piece that comes out of the egg to attach itself to an animal/human and force an embryo down their throat ) and the ‘ chest-burster ’ ( the small creature that has grown enough within the host to burst out to an independent existence , killing the host in the process ) . |
| 5 | Four activists chained themselves to an oil drilling rig being towed to the Barents Sea in early August , and several days later others steered a boat into the 500-metre safety zone around the rig . |
| 6 | Gusev likened himself to an industrious spider , sitting at the heart of a complicated web , pulling a thread here , tightening one there , until finally he began to see a pattern . |
| 7 | The builder , by breaking his commitments , no doubt exposed himself to an action by his customer for breach of contract . |
| 8 | The two sides to the civil war which had raged in the capital , Mogadishu , since mid-November committed themselves to an immediate ending of hostilities at UN-sponsored peace negotiations in New York on Feb. 14 . |