Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pn reflx] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to limit herself to the most important ones ( to nod ‘ yes ’ or shake her head ‘ no ’ , to point at an object her companion had failed to see ) , to use only gestures that did not pretend to be her original expression . |
| 2 | It heralded the end of the session , as Danny 's mood seemed to transmit itself to the others and they too became restless . |
| 3 | Hubert Molland was an unpractised driver and his nervousness seemed to communicate itself to the big car , which juddered and groaned alarmingly . |
| 4 | If they happened to attach themselves to an old woman who lived by herself , they were risking a savage death as a witch 's familiar . |
| 5 | He immediately began to help himself to the food . |
| 6 | They also declined to commit themselves to an extension of the May ceasefire , although the possibility of an outbreak of large-scale fighting was minimized by the onset of the rainy season . |
| 7 | It all began when a woman threatened to tie herself to a willow tree . |
| 8 | The big machines are only powered by the ratepayers ' money , and that woman who threatened to tie herself to a willow tree represents thousands upon thousands of ratepayers who share her ( and Constable 's ) convictions about the essential nature of a river . |
| 9 | She decided to treat herself to a fig from the bowl and found its skin still damp , as though it had been recently washed . |
| 10 | I decided to commit myself to the revolution and in January 1981 , went to the Frente Paracentral , which at that time covered parts of the Departments of Cabanas . |
| 11 | Ken , in the event neither fulminated nor frothed , and managed to restrict himself to a 15-minute speech in which he advanced some very cogent and well measured arguments for preventing bolting gaining the same sort of prominence it has in other countries — notably France and America . |
| 12 | The girls managed to paddle themselves to the shore , but the boys spent almost an hour before being rescued . |
| 13 | Their skills were in demand as China struggled to adapt itself to the age of new technology . |
| 14 | His skull was smashed , but he managed to drag himself to the Roebuck ( no longer there ) , where he later died . |
| 15 | In the run-up to the elections Fujimori sought to present himself to the public as the defender of democracy , claiming that opposition politicians had been behind a coup attempt on Nov. 13 aimed at preventing the CCD elections from taking place and restoring the 1979 Constitution . |
| 16 | According to Major-General John Strawson 's A History of the S.A.S. Regiment , its soldiers had to get themselves to the target ‘ by any means from submarine to caique ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Kirsty MacColl bollocked me about that gay thing , right , because she had to defend herself to the people she knew saying , ‘ Look , Shaun ai n't like that . ’ |
| 18 | Scrope relied almost exclusively on George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , but consequently had to adapt himself to the tergiversations of the latter 's policies . |
| 19 | It was nothing to do with me if the porter wished to bring himself to the notice of Shaitan . |
| 20 | The previous occasion was in 1925 when , by rejoining the Gold Standard , Britain sought to attach herself to the economy of the United States . |
| 21 | She wanted to fling herself to the ground , to lie there with her body pressed against the purple glory . |
| 22 | But in Russia the masses refused to do so , refused to resign themselves to an indefinite period of subjection to capitalist exploitation . |
| 23 | The reason Gandhi gives for choosing to become a vānaprasthin is that he wanted to devote himself to the service of the community . |
| 24 | Connolly is playing for Canterbury-Bankstown in Australia 's Winfield Cup and refused to commit himself to a new contract before going Down Under . |
| 25 | Last year Mexico blocked agreement to tighten up the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty , which polices world trade in nuclear fuel , because others refused to commit themselves to a test ban . |