Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says his only reason for deciding to kill Caesar was that he had committed himself to help the general public . |
| 2 | After lobster in Sligo , eaten late and washed down with Macon Villages , they took the southward route to Charlestown , on the landward side of Slieve Gamph , then on to Claremorris and Tuam , because Rory said he did n't trust himself to take the coastal roads , to get too near the sea . |
| 3 | Ceauşescu could trust himself to play the liberal , but he could not be certain of Gorbachev 's real intentions . |
| 4 | Archer was said to have become especially depressive when starving himself to make the required weight . |
| 5 | So , once again , having committed itself to support the fictional or , at most , ‘ evolutionary ’ independence of Vietnam , the US was just as dependent as ever on France to make this vision a reality . |
| 6 | Cassie , who by now was trembling so violently that she could not trust herself to lift the loaded tray , said lightly : ‘ Take the tray , will you , Jenny ? |
| 7 | At this time of year , when everyone is pledging themselves to improve the sorry lot we call our lives , I have decided to give up lying . |
| 8 | Only then would ministers steel themselves to introduce the unpleasant but indispensable reform measures . |
| 9 | Leopold 's tragedy was that of a parent whose cherished child spurns his advice in adolescent rebellion ; but , unlike , for example , Alessandro Scarlatti , another musician father with a son more brilliant than himself , Leopold could never quite bring himself to untie the emotional leashes and allow his own ‘ young eagle whose wings are grown ’ to find his own way in the world . |
| 10 | The building materials industry geared itself to meet the steady predictable demand of the house-building industry , thus eliminating one of the chief impediments to the output of houses . |
| 11 | But there was no way she could bring herself to like the other woman , even though she suspected that , had the circumstances been different , she would have warmed to her immediately . |
| 12 | For a moment Louisa could not bring herself to answer the frail smile . |
| 13 | Betty Rizzo suggests that Leapor 's metaphor is a sign of her limitations as a poet ; she can not bring herself to write the simple word ‘ mayfly ’ [ Rizzo ] . |
| 14 | I could n't bring myself to close the staring eyes , and that 's when my courage dissolved . |
| 15 | ( I can not bring myself to follow the grotesque habit which Methodists seem to have learned from the Labour Party of dropping the definite article and so ‘ Conference does this or that ’ never ‘ The Conference . ’ ) |
| 16 | In a curious way , and despite its commitment to vigorous prosecution of the war , Common Wealth provided a refuge for pacifist-minded individuals who could not bring themselves to oppose the anti-fascist war . |
| 17 | Neither he , nor she , could quite bring themselves to use the bald words ‘ forcible repatriation ’ for the planeloads of refugees being flown back to Hanoi , 30 Hong Kong dollars a head , cash on delivery . |
| 18 | She expressed her condolences briefly and tactfully , in marked contrast to some of those present , who could n't quite bring themselves to approach the grieving widow but were quite prepared to quiz me at length about the details of Dennis 's last hours . |
| 19 | In 1976 , the N.C.T.D. re-formed itself to become the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf ( B.A.T.O.D. ) |
| 20 | As will be demonstrated with respect to Orientalism itself , Said can not get out of the Hegelian problematic that he articulates , and indeed tends himself to repeat the very processes that he criticizes . |
| 21 | Robyn turned , forcing herself to ignore the sudden uncontrollable lurch in the pit of her stomach , the slight tremble in her hands that would surely take a hold if she let it . |
| 22 | Nell swallowed , slowly held out her hand , forcing herself to touch the obscene body before her , instinctively aware that a gesture of contact would be the most effective way to calm the creature . |
| 23 | On a wider note , authors need to organise themselves to redress the current imbalance of power . |
| 24 | This year those brief moments of feeling , of affection while sharing the task of putting up the decorations , of humility while listening to carol-singers , of joy when waking on Christmas morning , this year these brief moments will spread and grow and shape themselves to fit the whole year , the whole of our life . |
| 25 | I am already aware that I am beginning myself to use the acceptable university jargon that saturates the material that is presented within these diploma courses . |
| 26 | He said that the Government had only pledged itself to employ the successful barracks architects , but not the Government Offices architects . |
| 27 | On 29th January , 1855 , Aberdeen 's Government had been heavily defeated in the House of Commons on a censure motion criticizing its conduct of the Crimean War , but it was not until 6th February that Queen Victoria brought herself to appoint the seventy-one-year-old Palmerston as Aberdeen 's successor , although his prestige and popularity had made him the inevitable choice as Prime Minister . |
| 28 | You know ’ — she almost had to force herself to use the strange name — ‘ Buck Kettering 's daughter . ’ |
| 29 | You might want to arrive early for the celebrations to allow yourself to catch the annual Dublin Film Festival ( February 28 — March 8 ) . |
| 30 | And they chose themselves to have the ruling family to be the Al Sabar family . |