Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he appeared to shake himself back to normality . |
| 2 | She gave a little shake of her head as if to pull herself back to reality . |
| 3 | ‘ On my last legs , ’ Seth wrote later , ‘ I hied down to New Orleans to drink myself quietly to death , and nearly did , but something awoke in me and I wrote a book instead . ’ |
| 4 | They reject them as calumnies which are confuted by conscious experience , and adroitly overlook the faint indications through which the unconscious is apt to betray itself even to consciousness . |
| 5 | But I totally disagree with what she said in that erm yesterday I sat glued to the television most of the day , really to keep myself up to date on what was going on , erm I also have a baby but I managed to keep him occupied as well as take him out for a walk and give him his lunch and what have you . |
| 6 | However , you need to keep yourself up to date with this bumf , and you 've got to control it . |
| 7 | During the past year , he decided to devote himself completely to healing and , almost as if in response , phenomena more powerful than anything before have started to happen . |
| 8 | A practising engineer until the age of forty , Albert Ayme did not throw away his slide-rule and set-square when he decided to devote himself entirely to painting . |
| 9 | Some sufferers have been known to jog themselves literally to death , despite being told by doctors of the specific risks they would incur by taking further exercise . |
| 10 | This qualification can be taken as either a post-graduate or a post-experience course and is equally relevant to a young graduate starting a career in management or to an older man with some experience of management , who wishes to bring himself up to date with the latest practice . |
| 11 | When Molly Gibson in Wives and Daughters ( 1866 ) has been to visit the Towers , her father declares that he had expected to find her so ‘ polite and ceremonious ’ that he read a few chapters of Sir Charles Grandison in order to bring himself up to concert pitch . |
| 12 | Afterwards , when coffee was served together with delectable hand-made chocolates , Merrill tried again to bring herself down to earth . |
| 13 | In an effort to bring herself down to earth again , she said pleasantly , ‘ You never told me how you got into Woodline Design . |
| 14 | Without giving me any warning at all she decided to bring herself back to life . |
| 15 | ‘ I called into the office first to bring myself up to date . ’ |
| 16 | Could it be , as Kimura ( 1977b ) suggests , that : brain regions considered to he important for symbolic-language processes might better be conceived as important for the production of motor sequences which happen to lend themselves readily to communication ? |