Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pn reflx] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not want to talk to her friend about Jamie , and she did not trust herself to hold a lengthy conversation with Bridget without mentioning his visit . |
| 2 | And secondly , if she did n't see what she thought she was going to see , she would n't trust herself to keep a straight face . |
| 3 | Each passenger is a different face of white colonialism : the overt racist who can not bring himself to use a Black doctor to treat his sick wife ; the hypocritical racist who secretly has an affair with his Black housekeeper ; the white liberal who alternates between ’ slumming ’ it with the natives , and living with the whites , not quite willing or able to give up his white privilege . |
| 4 | I could n't bring myself to tell a small boy of his age that his pet was probably going to die . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was a show of support for his disciplining of Gilchrist ; perhaps there was the feeling that Worrell had drifted away from the hub of West Indies cricket ; or perhaps once again the selectors simply could not bring themselves to appoint a black man . |
| 6 | The second list tells you which foods naturally contain those items — but remember , if you really can not bring yourself to eat a particular range of foods , it is always possible to take the lacking vitamin in tablet form . |
| 7 | Can you bring yourself to marry a poor doctor , be his wife , and share his burdens ? |