Example sentences of "i [vb base] [pn reflx] to [art] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | When I introduce myself to a class that I am working with for the first time I frequently begin by asking them to sit close by me on the floor and listen with their eyes shut to the sound of a pair of Indian bells struck together . |
2 | I devote myself to the modest task of first abstracting from the actual economic policy of the State , which is the resultant of the struggle between two systems of economy , and the corresponding classes , so as to investigate in its pure form the movement towards the optimum of primitive socialist accumulation , to discover the operation of the conflicting tendencies , as far as possible in their pure state , and then try to understand why the resultant in real life proceeds along one particular line and not another . |
3 | ‘ When I am in the car I am competing professionally and I commit myself to the job . |
4 | The expression " New Deal " was first used by Roosevelt in his speech accepting the Democratic Party nomination as its presidential candidate in July 1932 , when he said " I pledge you , I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people . " |
5 | I help myself to a drink and stare entranced at the bald patch in the shag-pile over by the door . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | In Chapters 5–8 I address myself to the topic of experiences from a phenomenological point of view . |