Example sentences of "attached [pn reflx] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although born in the very purple of Whiggery , he displayed independence of judgement , and , in spite of his personal admiration for W. E. Gladstone ( tempered by a certain irreverence ) , he attached himself to the radical section of the Liberal Party . |
| 2 | He attached himself to the Sussex magnate Thomas Sackville , then Lord Buckhurst and later lord treasurer and first Earl of Dorset [ q.v. ] , who in 1594 recommended him to act as deputy to John Parker in a Chancery post as ‘ of honest sort and behaviour , of such good knowledge and skill for the discharge of such a place , and withall having so good means and ability to live ’ . |
| 3 | As he watched , an r-shaped gantry-lift moved on its rails across to the craft and attached itself to a portal on its uppermost surface . |
| 4 | They believed that as soon as a person died their spirit attached itself to the family left behind . |
| 5 | A courtesan was a woman of gifts who attached herself to a great man , and expected to be displayed as a badge of his wealth . |
| 6 | The crew swam out from under the canoe and attached themselves to the upturned hull . |
| 7 | In Romania , ‘ Socialism in One Family ’ meant rule by the Ceauşescus and Petrescus plus lesser client-families who attached themselves to the dynasty . |
| 8 | Even those currents that attached themselves to the drift of labourism , and with which they often had an uneasy relationship , were pathologically infected by the same bourgeois traditions . |
| 9 | Rattus rattus moved all over Europe and Asia , hitching rides on camel trains and on waggons and particularly on ships , and the fleas deserted the marmots and attached themselves to the rats , and the bacilli went with them . |
| 10 | The coincidence of the bronzewings ' appearance and Gould 's arrival did not escape comment by the local Aborigines , who had , like Natty and Jemmy , attached themselves to the strange English bird-man . |
| 11 | It was cheaper than the cinema , only a few pennies , and young people could sometimes get in for nothing if they attached themselves to an adult . |
| 12 | I arrived ten minutes before the train was leaving , wearing a headscarf , and attached myself to a group of schoolchildren , chatting to their teacher about how smart they were and she must be proud . |