Example sentences of "bring [pn reflx] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leopold 's tragedy was that of a parent whose cherished child spurns his advice in adolescent rebellion ; but , unlike , for example , Alessandro Scarlatti , another musician father with a son more brilliant than himself , Leopold could never quite bring himself to untie the emotional leashes and allow his own ‘ young eagle whose wings are grown ’ to find his own way in the world . |
| 2 | But there was no way she could bring herself to like the other woman , even though she suspected that , had the circumstances been different , she would have warmed to her immediately . |
| 3 | For a moment Louisa could not bring herself to answer the frail smile . |
| 4 | Betty Rizzo suggests that Leapor 's metaphor is a sign of her limitations as a poet ; she can not bring herself to write the simple word ‘ mayfly ’ [ Rizzo ] . |
| 5 | I could n't bring myself to close the staring eyes , and that 's when my courage dissolved . |
| 6 | ( I can not bring myself to follow the grotesque habit which Methodists seem to have learned from the Labour Party of dropping the definite article and so ‘ Conference does this or that ’ never ‘ The Conference . ’ ) |
| 7 | In a curious way , and despite its commitment to vigorous prosecution of the war , Common Wealth provided a refuge for pacifist-minded individuals who could not bring themselves to oppose the anti-fascist war . |
| 8 | Neither he , nor she , could quite bring themselves to use the bald words ‘ forcible repatriation ’ for the planeloads of refugees being flown back to Hanoi , 30 Hong Kong dollars a head , cash on delivery . |
| 9 | She expressed her condolences briefly and tactfully , in marked contrast to some of those present , who could n't quite bring themselves to approach the grieving widow but were quite prepared to quiz me at length about the details of Dennis 's last hours . |
| 10 | On 29th January , 1855 , Aberdeen 's Government had been heavily defeated in the House of Commons on a censure motion criticizing its conduct of the Crimean War , but it was not until 6th February that Queen Victoria brought herself to appoint the seventy-one-year-old Palmerston as Aberdeen 's successor , although his prestige and popularity had made him the inevitable choice as Prime Minister . |
| 11 | If Congress brings itself to adopt the economic freedoms which have made so much of Asia rich — but which India 's intellectual and social elites have smugly rejected — the yearned-for 21st century is within its grasp . |
| 12 | If you possess these , you will not find it difficult to bring yourself to learn the simple arithmetic of grief , its common pattern and some of its variations , and you will find that as your knowledge increases your fears will decrease . |