Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [pn reflx] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 They want to commit themselves to a single currency and to deny a future Parliament or Government the power to make a vital decision .
2 Recognizing all this , and being shown too where the power lies in this social order , the politics of inversion become persuasive , perhaps irresistible ; this is Moll , about to thrash the predatory Laxton : ‘ I scorn to prostitute myself to a man , /that can prostitute a man to me ’ ( iii .
3 Most Britons continue to ascribe themselves to a particular class .
4 Pretend to sell yourself to a higher bidder , no doubt . ’
5 ‘ It 's definitely an experience and I try to give myself to the moment and make the most of it .
6 Muslims too claim to address themselves to an external reality and their claim is parallel to the physicists ' .
7 If the book wins , it will control the character and try to deliver itself to a powerful follower of Slaanesh .
8 This is a subject to which I shall return , but for the moment I prefer to confine myself to the typical picture and to show where my own circumstances coincided with it or diverged from it .
9 Behavioural psychologists prefer to limit themselves to the physically observable .
10 Before all that , however , England have to readdress themselves to the problem of defeating the Irish and the Dutch , who beat them in Stuttgart and Dusseldorf last year .
11 The sociologists of art who discuss music have to restrict themselves to the conditions in which it is performed , produced , or received , rather than the music itself .
12 Teacher training institutions therefore still need to address themselves to the issues outlined in the survey :
13 It is management that have to address themselves to the solutions , either by using internal resources or by engaging outside consultants .
14 In this short debate , we have to address ourselves to the question whether the discount of 25 per cent .
15 As with any other area of living , we need to commit ourselves to a Christian world-view and not be tempted to borrow from secular philosophy .
16 About fifteen of the boys said that they felt some need to prove themselves to the others and to become known to them by name .
17 Yes I mean it does n't go down well and I 'll say the things you have to do when you when you 're helping to run a club , you have to commit yourself to the club and you have to do the jobs that th presented by the club .
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