Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] [verb] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.

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1 Neither Marx nor Engels considered himself to be historian or anthropologist .
2 There was a gradual movement towards the door and Patrick allowed himself to be carried with it .
3 His sympathies lay with the independents such as Henderson and Nixon ( who at one point in the 1930s constituted , in the absence of the nationalists , the official opposition at Stormont ) , but the Unionists had not yet shown the degree of liberalism they were to show under O'Neill in the 1960s and Paisley confined himself to promoting various ‘ ginger group ’ enterprises on the margins of politics .
4 Whether by accident or design , they managed to go around without seeing any of the others and Maggie allowed herself to be selfish .
5 The agreement followed a NATO meeting in London on July 5-6 when member countries redefined the organization 's strategies and goals , and NATO committed itself to a limitation of the size of Germany 's armed forces [ see pp. 37599-600 ] .
6 Joe returned the warm plates of food to the table , and Dolly helped herself to the mint sauce .
7 It is canvas and paint , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg settled himself to type on .
8 The waitress made off again , and Dimity applied herself to pouring out the tea .
9 The value was set as of Oct. 22 at ECU1=NKr7.9940 , and Norway committed itself to remaining within the narrow 2.25 per cent fluctuation band .
10 The Japanese position initially highlighted the weak commitment of countries such as the US and Britain to commit itself to any targets .
11 When Winston Smith and O'Brien pledge themselves to a revolution against dictatorship , the toast is not to the future but to the past which , as O'Brien puts it with mock gravity , is ‘ more important ’ .
12 The report cited numerous examples of arbitrary arrest , torture and extra-judicial killing and called on Indian politicians to use the general election of May and June to commit themselves to ending seven years of " rampant human rights abuses " in the state .
13 McClatchey restored St Helens ' lead with a stunning volley and Pennington helped himself to a fine hat-trick .
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