Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pn reflx] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would have given herself to a man for whom she was nothing but another short-term conquest , and in a year , or six months , or however long it took him to tire of her , she would have found herself alone again . |
| 2 | If , however , C.N.L. were to fail , they would have exposed themselves to the additional financial perils involved in advancing an insupportable plea of justification . |
| 3 | The team may have resigned itself to a fixtureless season but there is some small consolation . |
| 4 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
| 5 | It must have transmitted itself to the patients , for even they gave up after their initial attempts at jollity , and by mid-morning a definite air of gloom seemed to have settled over the place . |
| 6 | It is a consideration which I should have applied myself to the assessment of general damages to favour this plaintiff . |
| 7 | Although I know that in these matters there is almost no limit to what people will do , I am horrified that Victoria should have subjected herself to an Aids test and — as I have heard happens — the offers of emotional counselling and financial advice . |
| 8 | I would have flogged myself to the death up to the end . |