Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [pn reflx] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time the traffic ceased , they were far too late to carry out a proper raid on the airfield and had to content themselves with shooting up transport along the road . |
| 2 | In which case they would have to content themselves with making a demonstration , burning the castleton and village and driving off Dacre 's and his people 's cattle and horses . |
| 3 | A business executive who is faced with dismissal usually has to content himself with seeking financial compensation in the form of damages for breach of contract , unfair dismissal compensation or state redundancy pay . |
| 4 | So , in order to get his views across , such a candidate has to content himself with stuffing letter boxes , distributing tracts , and holding poorly attended public meetings in bare , underheated school assembly halls . |
| 5 | The intrepid manager had to content himself with numbering his reserve teams . |
| 6 | Emilia showed little wish to speak , Louisa had to content herself with reading aloud beside the bed , though the books she suggested were soon rejected in favour of such verses as those of Felicia Hemans and Anna Letitia Barbauld — works that were not at all to her own taste . |