Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pn reflx] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd rather throw herself to the lions … |
| 2 | Lord Wilberforce 's statement in Tameside , that the decision-maker should properly direct himself to the facts , provides a good example of one aspect of factual review which would allow the courts great latitude for substituting their view for that of the decision-maker . |
| 3 | With one hand clamped between her legs to avoid dropping her load , she stepped astride the wooden animal , and gingerly lowered herself to the saddle . |
| 4 | The company , which has pretty much limited itself to the German market so far , is also looking to peddle its suite of software products across the border , in France , and is currently courting French distributors . |
| 5 | Well , well , well , Captain , I nearly did you a great injustice a minute or two ago , I thought you had not perhaps addressed yourself to the problem on hand . |
| 6 | In fact there was precious little to rely on in the unconscious unless the product was good enough to sell itself to the conscious senses , in which case the unconscious appeal was superfluous . |
| 7 | In examining my own background it seems logical to refer to the findings of Selvini Palazzoli and Minuchin on the families of anorexics , but whereas Minuchin especially confines himself to the family ambience at the time of the onset of the disease , I should like to say a little more about the genesis of that family ambience . |
| 8 | He issues this warning to parents : ‘ Let them not too much apply themselves to the disposition of their children ’ — in short , not to become obsessed with the whole business of bringing them up . |
| 9 | It constantly adjusts itself to the correct tension as the string is being wrapped . |
| 10 | Pedro Fernández Dittus was not , however , required to spend time in detention but merely to present himself to the authorities once a week . |
| 11 | She so endeared herself to the library staff that , as soon as a post became free , they organized it so it could be part-time to fit Susan 's family commitments . |
| 12 | And by this means , perhaps , by being ambitious or ‘ miriad-minded ’ , I can perhaps address myself to the nature of this foulness : how can a man do such a thing ? |
| 13 | She insisted she would only address herself to the managers . |
| 14 | She criticised the showing on television of ‘ pictures of young black teenagers taking calculated — and cheerful — running kicks at plate-glass shop windows , coolly helping themselves to the goods inside , shoes , shirts or whatever they could lay their hands on ’ . |
| 15 | She had none of the fears of the normal servant that her honesty might ever be in doubt and her absolute conviction of her own integrity had finally communicated itself to the old man and been conceded by him . |
| 16 | Having thus resigned herself to the passive lifestyle of a semi-invalid literary lady , she became a regular contributor to the Spectator , then edited by her father 's close friend Richard Holt Hutton [ q.v. ] , in which she published over fifty articles between 1880 and 1893 . |
| 17 | I mean I think I 've already resigned myself to the fact that I 'm going to have to do one maybe two years more before I get anything like |
| 18 | Abolitionists thus presented themselves to the world and to each other as part of a continuous progress despite the significant disjunctures in the movement 's history discussed in the last chapter ( pp.65–6 ) . |
| 19 | Finally , while the Americans were well aware of Britain 's economic problems , they could not easily reconcile themselves to the need for actual defence cuts . |
| 20 | As Foucault ( 1977 : 16 ) put it , punishment no longer addressed itself to the body of the criminal , but to the soul . |
| 21 | I was hoping that my indecision might somehow communicate itself to The Fat Controller . |
| 22 | He spent his youth in Provence where three generations of his family had already devoted themselves to the arcane mysteries of perfume business . |
| 23 | This week the club lost captain David Rees to Newport and coach Paul Evans has decided he can no longer commit himself to the club because of the pressures of his Welsh Under-21 assistant coaching duties . |
| 24 | This weekend she had finally braced herself to the course of obtruding the existence of Len into the house . |
| 25 | She was about to say something when he turned away to introduce himself to the girl on his right . |
| 26 | The stores were overrun with rats and mice and the cats came to feast on these rodent pests , thereby endearing themselves to the Egyptian people . |
| 27 | Stating that Mr McNeill ‘ apologises without reservation for the offence caused by his remarks ’ , Mr Pignatelli said his deputy would further explain himself to the council 's advisory group on racial equality and the Strathclyde Community Relations Council on Thursday . |
| 28 | Into the nineteenth century , as I have mentioned , I middle-class houses were regarded as a scaling down of the houses of the great , while a majority of novels still referred themselves to the dominant mansion at their centre . |
| 29 | But his personality — assertive and brash yet essentially both cheerful and tough — gradually communicated itself to the public and helped him to his greatest triumph : his victory in the 1948 election . |
| 30 | ‘ It is entirely up to you whether you can gradually raise yourself to the highest position of eminence ever achieved by a musician … whether you choose to leave this world having been ensnared by a skirt , forced to lie on straw and shut up with an attic-full of starving children , or whether , after a Christian life , you go full of satisfaction , honour and glory , your family well provided for , and your name revered by all . ’ |