Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't know and I hid from them in the semantics lab when they came to shrink me , and I sold myself to someone who did n't know how to do it . |
| 2 | A feeling of terror mounted in me , and I dragged myself to the telephone and rang Émile . |
| 3 | I did n't do a lot of walkin' , except round the shops , and I treated meself to another 'ansom cab to bring me back . |
| 4 | ‘ When I am in the car I am competing professionally and I commit myself to the job . |
| 5 | Of course Scamp gets to claim about twenty grand on some dubious insurance policy and I resign myself to the fact that I 'll never get beyond Inspector . |
| 6 | Soon my buttocks were pressing against the ceiling , then the back of my head , and I hauled myself to the edge of the rug to look for a way down before I was crushed . |
| 7 | You leapt for the cleaner banks and I allowed myself to be carried on by the filth of deceit , of shame , and of a guilt that even now I can not put into public or private words . |
| 8 | In that sense , their political attractiveness is not likely to be as great as that of present policies which emphasize training , selecting and matching , and which address themselves to the individual qualities and characteristics of the teachers themselves . |
| 9 | Rosalba prayed , often , these days while she waited for Tommaso 's return to Rupe and the walk they would take together , as he had told Caterina they would , and she applied herself to acquiring those skills at crochet , at knitting , at pattern cutting and sewing that Fantina learned from her sisters , who were themselves taught by Auntie Rosa , later , in America . |
| 10 | None the less , throughout the autumn and the cold winter that followed , those three hundred yards became three hundred years each and every time , the sign of her defeat , the sign of her capture — she felt herself a wild animal tamed and she devoted herself to Maggie with what appeared to be maternal passion mainly because she felt guilty at her lack of joy in it . |
| 11 | There was nothing for Sophie to say after that and she resigned herself to the prospect of meeting Robert again , but later that morning , while she was working alone in the office , she felt desperately unhappy . |
| 12 | For many of us , our efforts fail us and we resign ourselves to our limitations . |
| 13 | " We have no aggressive intentions and we commit ourselves to the peaceful resolution of all disputes . |
| 14 | They were dressed in long dark raincoats and wore dark felt hats and they addressed themselves to my father , ignoring the rest of us . |
| 15 | Prior to 1979 , most local authorities were Conservative-controlled and they considered themselves to be local authorities , not Governments . |
| 16 | The contemporary style of worship songs generally makes them easily sung by a congregation and they lend themselves to a variety of arrangements for voices and instruments . |
| 17 | Archery these days is a sport like any other , and he considers himself to be an athlete . |
| 18 | This perhaps represents Owen 's line of thought with him becoming more and more emotional to the middles of the verse , reaching climaxes and then , as it is as if he questions this freely running thought process , and he limits himself to so much emotion by the end of each verse . |
| 19 | He believed the Lord could and would save him , and he committed himself to the Lord and trusted him to save him . |
| 20 | After school , he was waiting for me and he exposed himself to me . |
| 21 | A severe attack of pneumonia a few weeks before the entrance examination destroyed his university hopes , and he resigned himself to working on his father 's farm . |
| 22 | The country rolled endlessly beyond his sight , and he abandoned himself to the routine of riding , resting , eating and sleeping . |
| 23 | ‘ So he went down , ’ said Frome , as if puzzling it out , ‘ and he helped himself to the headmaster 's sherry . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But he loved us and he worked himself to death for us . ’ |
| 25 | Being now unfit to work , he was left to spend his time as he pleased , and he devoted himself to reading , selling scraps of old iron and painting children 's books and shop labels to raise the few pence needed to buy the books . |
| 26 | His undoubted talents never blossomed in public life , and he devoted himself to an immense rebuilding and renovation programme at Chatsworth House , Derbyshire , where he loved to spend many hours in the library . |
| 27 | Although Price did not give his evidence on oath ( because under Swedish law an accomplice can not be required to give evidence on oath ) , he was reminded of his duty to speak the truth when questioned in court , and he declared himself to be aware of his duty of truthfulness . |
| 28 | As a general rule Green in his Guide recommends the skies be a quarter blue and three quarters grey , and he holds himself to this idea most strictly . |
| 29 | than a typical marker and it lends itself to softer and more characterful styles . |
| 30 | And and it lends itself to interpretive kind of approach rather than a politics sort of approach which tends to be . |