Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pn reflx] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It bases the idea of obligation to law , reasons for acquiescing in or committing oneself to legal process , on the value of the ends which thus become attainable . |
| 2 | Whether they remain in Edinburgh or betake themselves to other lands and whatever be the walk of life in which they were bred I believe the students of this seminary will be found everywhere and at all times promoting civilisation in the world . ’ |
| 3 | The children can also watch television on their own set or help themselves to soft drinks from their own bar , which gives Mum and Dad a chance to enjoy a leisurely drink on the verandah . |
| 4 | Unlike most of the other 2,000 pension funds then operating in America , the GM fund did not principally invest in the company 's own shares nor limit itself to fixed-income securities . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , he was making friends of working men and trade unionists , and devoting himself to educational work . |
| 6 | In 1877 his father had heard the American evangelist D. L. Moody in London , and had sold his racehorses and devoted himself to personal evangelism . |
| 7 | Both organizations gave an undertaking to curb violence among their members and committed themselves to political tolerance and freedom of political activity , recognizing the other 's right to exist " with its own policies and programmes " . |
| 8 | Whereas in the early church believers were discipled through the teaching and corporate life of the Christian community , the third and fourth centuries saw many of the devout withdrawing to the Egyptian and Syrian deserts to pray and give themselves to spiritual warfare . |
| 9 | We visited the kitchen , were lectured to diet , closed our eyes and expressed ourselves to ethnic music and discussed who we were . |
| 10 | Before leaving Merchiston , she was presented with a bouquet of flowers by first year Hospitality Management student , Louise McLernan ; she discussed , with Louise and her class-mates , the level of commitment needed to give up work , as some of them had done , and devote themselves to full-time study . |
| 11 | The American mink normally shuns human settlement and confines itself to natural , or at least loosely managed , environs . |
| 12 | Theory could only be completed in practice and , as a result , Dewey argued that philosophy must abandon abstract metaphysics and apply itself to social engineering . |
| 13 | Wattana first came in contact with the Davises and Jimmy Whites of the snooker world when he was 16 , the year that a Chester club owner , Harry Wau , was on holiday in Bangkok and introduced himself to local snooker officials . |
| 14 | Digital Equipment Corp executives remark that the Open Software Foundation better make some progress in the coming months stitching up the wounds of the old Unix wars and accommodating itself to new alliances or else it 's going to have a lot of trouble getting funding from its sponsors next year . |
| 15 | He had begun to drink a lot during the day as he had learned to go to the fridge and help himself to prepared squash . |
| 16 | I 'd join the crimplene brigade , dress out of the Littlewoods club and resign myself to false teeth and a perm by the time I was 30 . |
| 17 | ( iii ) To ensure that the government machine responds and adapts itself to new policies and programmes as they emerge , within the broad framework of the main departmental fields of responsibility . |
| 18 | Drawing some inspiration from the American system of neighbourhood law firms but adapting themselves to local conditions and the rules of the legal profession in this country , the law centres now provide a local base for the dissemination of legal services outside the private profession . |