Example sentences of "and [verb] [pn reflx] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I grabbed my dressing gown and propelled myself downstairs to the kitchen . |
| 2 | Lesley wants sexual equality , but does n't believe attitudes have yet changed enough : ‘ We do n't yet have true equality ; until we do , women will have to overstress themselves and overprove themselves just to be given the same level of respect as their male peers . |
| 3 | In anglerfish ( above left ) the problem is solved because the males are parasitic and attach themselves permanently to females . |
| 4 | Most of them abandoned their former preoccupations and devoted themselves instead to less controversial types of literary study , such as text exegesis ( Eikhenbaum and Boris Tomashevsky ) . |
| 5 | This ascetic direction of Christianity exalted the celibate , both male and female , who abstained from both sex and reproduction and devoted themselves entirely to the coming new age that will transcend the corruptible world of birth and death . |
| 6 | And if her head warned her that he only wanted her for sex , her heart ignored the warning and opened itself joyfully to his tender passion . |
| 7 | Then she no longer knew or cared how he looked or what he might be feeling , and surrendered herself totally to the sensation of being in his arms . |
| 8 | ‘ We are all men of the world ’ — he excluded the Archdeacon from eye contact and addressed himself exclusively to the Dean — ‘ so of course we know , do we not , that problems of that sort for young clergy bring with them all kinds of undesirable connections . |
| 9 | Confronted with a party weighted in favour of the clerical , he nevertheless took a thoughtful look at Hugh Beringar , and addressed himself rather to the secular justice . |
| 10 | She had spurned the hypocritical cant beloved of politicians and addressed herself directly to the people , showing how well she knew them , telling them what they whispered in their hearts but dared not speak , calling their bluff ! |
| 11 | At the first opportunity , she had clambered out and dragged herself upwards to this warmer , darker , more humid place where she now slept . |
| 12 | And because we 'd found self-esteem , we had the courage to go and sell ourselves successfully to employers . |
| 13 | And it was probably because of his desire to ‘ touch ’ space that he began to abandon landscape painting and to devote himself increasingly to still life , in which the depth was naturally more restricted and could be more easily controlled . |
| 14 | Now , in these latter sixteenth-century days , Knollys 's shipyard had been driven to the building of more modest ships , and confined itself mainly to boats no larger than forty or fifty tons — small merchantmen for the most part , which sailed for their owners to Italy and Spain with cargoes of wool , tin and salt fish . |
| 15 | We must see how this doubt develops and be careful to presuppose only what we know to be true and to commit ourselves consciously to the consequences of these suppositions . |