Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] over to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the others stood and gawped , she had already pushed herself over to the storage lockers and was busy tossing the flimsy emergency spacesuits over . |
| 2 | Why not give herself over to the silliness of it , instead of feeling distress ? |
| 3 | On arriving at Southwell , Charles handed himself over to the Scottish commissioners in expectation of their support , but negotiations between them collapsed , and the Scots sold him to Parliament for £400,000 . |
| 4 | Haiducu not only failed to assassinate Goma and Tanase , but handed himself over to the French authorities with his weapon . |
| 5 | Trent swung himself over to the settee so that she would n't have to shout . |
| 6 | In many ways , he would have preferred to have been able to give himself over to the delusion and accept it as truth ; but there seemed to be a definite boundary here , and it was n't his choice whether or not he crossed it . |
| 7 | I did n't want her to give herself over to the view of life that underlay all this , the philosophy that pinned her to the shadow-corners of the world . |
| 8 | Rosa flung herself over to the other side of the bed . |
| 9 | Having registered , he set about ordering his life as he saw it developing , by giving himself over to the muse , by associating with those whose lives found proper space for literary reflection and endeavour , by getting close to that bohemian existence which he loved and from which all modern art seemed to spring . |
| 10 | She entered the kitchen and took herself over to the knife rack above the Aga . |
| 11 | I left my office chair to pine for my speedy return and took myself over to the window . |
| 12 | Rex and Harpo/Chico were all nuzzled up in the land of nod , so I took myself over to the window to watch the sun rise over Presley City . |
| 13 | For one day , it seems the country gave itself over to the pursuit of all things musical , in a wholehearted and thoroughly charitably-minded fashion . |
| 14 | She was n't good at being silly , but she gave herself over to the moment . |
| 15 | In these matters Emilia Frere knew more than she , for the woman had crossed the threshold of the married state ; she had delivered herself over to the meeting of the flesh as Louisa had not been called upon to do ; she had experienced what the uninitiate could only surmise . |
| 16 | Spitting out a gobbet of blood , he dragged himself over to the window , to look down on the devastation below . |
| 17 | Heedless of the rough dirt floor , Isabel dragged herself over to the fire and crouched beside it , crying with mingled fright and relief . |