Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pn reflx] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose shut herself into her office , grimly applying herself to routine . |
| 2 | Otherwise , some people would indeed quite literally eat themselves to death — in fact there have been a few cases of disturbed people doing just that in recent years . |
| 3 | And Y ? is the reason I can not find a genuinely happy ending to this story ; there seems to be a choice between adding poisonous chemicals and not — both of which apparently lend themselves to doom and disaster for the earth and its creatures , rather than sweetness and happiness ever after . |
| 4 | Essentially it is the ultimate perfection — a hostile critic might say ‘ emasculation ’ — of Netherland polyphony , its florid elements pruned , its dissonances disguised or mollified by preparation and other devices which so lend themselves to codification that ‘ the style of Palestrina ’ has become the ideal model for students of sixteenth-century composition . |
| 5 | Er basically stuffing yourself to excess for two weeks . |
| 6 | Possibly because BIS confines itself to activity in the academic , college and research libraries ( where most library instruction takes place ) , and the various committees have set themselves more specific tasks , BIS seems to be a more successful co-operative and co-ordinating agency than LIRT . |
| 7 | It is just that modern physicists seem to have more imaginative ways of naming new particles and phenomena — they no longer restrict themselves to Greek ! ) |
| 8 | Crowds of people would line the banks through the little villages , never tiring at the sight of their own local natural phenomenon , until the great waves finally smashed themselves to extinction against the weirs of Gloucester City . |
| 9 | It is this form of drama which best lends itself to topic work and intercurricular project work . |
| 10 | After the rather disappointing end to his adventures in Italy , Wolfgang once more devoted himself to composition — more symphonies , divertimentos for wind instruments , Masses , and a double violin concerto . |
| 11 | Left alone , the place would rapidly choke itself to death , it seemed . |
| 12 | ‘ If I could totally devote myself to tennis maybe that would help and I 'd be more into my tennis , but I 'm not that way . |
| 13 | While Branson was negotiating the purchase of his Caribbean island , the living corpse of the Sex Pistols was slowly kicking itself to final , ignominious extinction . |
| 14 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 15 | Masochistically subjecting himself to punishment in a gymnasium , incurring injury by hurling himself from windows or roofs , he achieves final atonement through an Italian hitman 's bullet . |
| 16 | The ever-present reality in the West — industrial ‘ restructuring ’ , the whittling away of heavy industry and the growth of ever more exotic services — is not a model that automatically commends itself to imitation . |
| 17 | In 1867 he accepted a timely invitation to return to his former employer , and in the reassuring familiarity of his parents ' home in Bockhampton he was able to assess his career , temporarily rededicating himself to architecture while continuing to hope for success as a writer , if not of poetry , of popular novels . |
| 18 | It does not immediately lend itself to action on the part of the adviser . |
| 19 | They [ i.e. researchers ] must be concerned with providing a model of interpretation of evidence from theory and experiment , related to the solution of the practical problems which immediately present themselves to classroom teachers . |
| 20 | And Evan even stirs himself to encore with a heart-breaking solo shimmy through The Shirelles ' ‘ Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow ? ’ , the latest addition to Lemonheads ' litany of unlikely , gorgeous cover versions . |
| 21 | ‘ As my words appear to have lost their power to charm I suppose I may as well diminish myself to beast of burden . ’ |
| 22 | How could grown men and women risk excommunication , persecution , and even burn themselves to death rather than see the altar procession move from left to right , the number of alleluias cut from three to two , and the number of fingers used in making the sign of the cross raised from two to three ? |
| 23 | The young Gedge steadfastly applied himself to school work throughout the constant shifts . |
| 24 | Gedge had still not fully applied himself to music and was quite happy to play board games with Solowka rather than the laborious task of writing songs . |
| 25 | Highly specialised manufacturing equipment , chemical cleanser for photographic equipment , or nuts and bolts for plumbing equipment do not readily lend themselves to sampling , but a case might be made for including small but appropriate gifts in any press pack . |
| 26 | Realising that she had not loved him , Boris then starved himself to death . |
| 27 | Assessment in Catholic Religious Education would have to take great care against falling into the trap of only aiming to develop that which readily lends itself to measurement . |
| 28 | It readily adapts itself to aquarium conditions . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's where my family live , ’ he says distantly , and slowly drink himself to death . |
| 30 | If you want to give the time … do n't unnecessarily expose yourself to danger |