Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pn reflx] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should take them at their word and hold them to it , rather than resign ourselves to the judgment that they have been lying . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , we do n't confine ourselves to the town . |
| 3 | He plans to stay in Sheffield to compete on the first day of the UK Championships today then concentrate on training , his Olympic place assured without having to jump in the trials in Birmingham on June 27–28 , in which he 'll confine himself to an outing in the 100 metres . |
| 4 | Nor does the book confine itself to a run-down of the different massage strokes ; it also ventures in to the territory of relaxation tips , body awareness exercises and meditation techniques to instill a sense of calm . |
| 5 | The planning sub-committee of Buckinghamshire county council , which meets on Monday to consider the scheme , must inevitably confine itself to the planning application before it , and the planning issues arising from it . |
| 6 | The Soviets were cautious in character , not adventurous like Adolf had been ( could n't that change one wondered ? ) and , while the balance of terror continued , they would behave themselves to an extent . |
| 7 | " I might as well resign myself to the fact that Matthew Preston is not out of my life . |
| 8 | Women were told unequivocally that they should confine themselves to the sphere of home and family ; the middle class husband unlike his working class counterpart , could be safely relied upon to provide . |
| 9 | Trade unions should confine themselves to the business of wages and conditions . |
| 10 | It 's very important that you read widely , both novels and playscripts , and do n't just confine yourself to an exam syllabus . |
| 11 | Stating that Mr McNeill ‘ apologises without reservation for the offence caused by his remarks ’ , Mr Pignatelli said his deputy would further explain himself to the council 's advisory group on racial equality and the Strathclyde Community Relations Council on Thursday . |
| 12 | He would treat himself to a seat in the front row . |
| 13 | He would lend himself to a deluge ; she would imagine water gushing into a basin . |
| 14 | He would just sprint himself to a standstill in a couple of hundred metres . |
| 15 | It should be noted that if any of these ineffective exclusion clauses are included in an advertisement , the trader responsible will expose himself to the risk of proceedings against him under the Control of Misleading Advertisements Regulations 1988 ( see paragraph 16 — 37 , below ) . |
| 16 | Jesus told the leper to go and show himself to the priest and make an offering for his healing . |
| 17 | He screamed that he would give himself to the Devil if he caught the girl before she reached home . |
| 18 | Kate was a woman in every sense of the word , and she was a woman who would not give herself to a man lightly . |
| 19 | Only after these days can she present herself to the priest for ritual atonement of her impurity : |
| 20 | ‘ Why give yourself to a man you do not trust ? ’ |
| 21 | However , before competing again you must present yourself to the tournament doctor to have both the injury and your bandaging accepted . |
| 22 | The guiding principle of the Okapi research is that the system must adapt itself to the user rather than the converse . |
| 23 | But the basic uncertainty in the mother may well transmit itself to the child and the relationship between the two of them could be off to a shaky start . |
| 24 | Pastiche is a dualistic activity , and it is an activity which can lend itself to the expression of paranoid feelings and unacted desires . |
| 25 | There is some disagreement about the size of the informal proletariat , which is not surprising given that its informal nature does not lend itself to the gathering of statistic , but most commentators see it representing about 40–60 per cent of the economically active population . |
| 26 | And , like mine , it did not lend itself to the sort of conclusion Berkeley wanted to draw , to the effect that we are not justified in calling material things hot and cold . |
| 27 | The loss of full-back Robertson would leave Rangers short in that department but his hamstring injury does not lend itself to the taking of risks . |
| 28 | Code switching in this community therefore does not immediately lend itself to an account based on a notion of " we " and " they " : the " we " and " they " psychology must first be shown to exist . |
| 29 | We must consider ways of describing the molecular structure as a continuum , such descriptions involving the idea of " embedding " , or we must reconcile ourselves to the fact that we can never do this and work entirely with a kinetic theory of molecules with the aim of deriving their properties including elastic ad viscous properties from the equations of motion . |
| 30 | Luke would have said that politically he stood way to the left of his mother and way , way to the left of his father , but somehow he could not reconcile himself to the thought of his mother stocking shelves in Pricewell 's . |