Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course we knew we were going to marry , we promised ourselves to each other when she was only sixteen . |
| 2 | He left the sentence hanging as he helped himself to more rum . |
| 3 | He helped himself to another brandy and waved the bottle before Herr Nordern 's eyes . |
| 4 | The Brigadier seemed to be thinking furiously as he helped himself to another glass of port . |
| 5 | Today when the four younger boys left for school , Jack helped himself to another cup of tea . |
| 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 | It was completed a few months after its companion piece ( the G major Quartet Op. 106 and subsequently the composer devoted himself to programmatic tone poems and operas . |
| 8 | During the Second World War |
| 9 | For the greater part of the 1830s and 1840s Nicholas I dedicated himself to international peace . |
| 10 | " Matt will calm her down , " Jenny said carelessly , and helped herself to more coffee . |
| 11 | He was about to return the compliment by suggesting that she might have lost a little weight when she leaned across and helped herself to another jam tart . |
| 12 | She gave a short , cross laugh , helped herself to another cigarette from the pink and white china box the children were forbidden to touch . |
| 13 | But more determined art criminals posing as tourists helped themselves to ornate craftwork from the chapel . |
| 14 | They described themselves to each other as being virtuous even , and certainly industrious . |
| 15 | Yet there is also a less determinate area , in which artists devoted themselves to religious art not only , and sometimes not primarily , because this was the willed commission of their Immediate patron , but because they could identify themselves with the religious purpose of which the immediate social organization was the available manifest form . |
| 16 | Grant flung himself to one side … but this time he was just a split second too late . |
| 17 | The miners refused to accept such changes and the General Council of the TUC committed itself to sympathetic strike action from Friday , 31 July . |
| 18 | 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 " . |
| 19 | In India , local business leaders committed themselves to rural community projects following a BITCI forum held there in February . |
| 20 | My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister ensured at Maastricht that the British proposals on this matter were passed : first , all countries committed themselves to improving animal welfare , which was a major step forward never agreed between those countries before ; and , secondly , in future , the European Court of Justice will be in a position to fine countries that fail to keep their obligations under Community rules . |
| 21 | The shallows lashed themselves to white foam over the limestone boulders of the valley floor . |
| 22 | There had been some war damage but this was not on a scale which lent itself to large-scale redevelopment . |
| 23 | Although the horn lent itself to delicate work and when finished had a smooth feel , its natural colour , yellow , mottled and streaked with grey , was so unattractive that the Chinese stained the objects they carved from it an artificial brown . |
| 24 | Desperately Moore threw himself to one side , and saw the rope fall harmlessly to the floor . |
| 25 | Julie screamed again and threw herself to one side , hissing in pain as a silver of broken glass sliced through the flesh on the back of her left hand . |
| 26 | We visited the kitchen , were lectured to diet , closed our eyes and expressed ourselves to ethnic music and discussed who we were . |
| 27 | As he adapted himself to this reputation , Deems indeed grew subtle in his affairs , until man and reputation became one . |
| 28 | Lady Pomfret had been an excellent wife and mother and an efficient Lady of the Bedchamber , but she exposed herself to constant ridicule in society because she was so desperate to be thought of as a learned woman . |
| 29 | I 'm just lucky really that I never cut myself to any extent , because if I had tried to ring my bell , they would have said , ‘ Tough , wait until the morning . ’ |
| 30 | I did n't do a lot of walkin' , except round the shops , and I treated meself to another 'ansom cab to bring me back . |