Example sentences of "to [noun] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | If the recession lasts much longer , and with present cuts in Government funding , the board will not have enough money to invest to tide itself over this period in which young people face such difficulties . |
2 | In the end , several firms undertook penicillin production on a massive scale , but hardly any ever came to Florey himself for the clinical trials which he was desperate to extend . |
3 | He preferred life at court to the hardships of campaigning ; he liked to deck himself in strings of precious stones and belts studded with priceless gems ; he wore clothes of the finest silk and from each ear lobe he hung a single pearl of remarkable size . |
4 | Sometimes he would have liked to unburden himself to somebody , but his officers and men had their own problems . |
5 | Also , it seemed to Bénezet , in some excitement , and in haste to unburden himself to someone about whatever was on his mind . |
6 | I was yards away down the other end of the table , yearning to hear WHAT ON EARTH he was saying and suffering pangs of guilt that I spent so little time encouraging him to unburden himself to me . |
7 | It was that failure of implementation that seems to have prompted Leon Panetta , Mr Clinton 's budget chief , to unburden himself of melancholy thoughts on April 26th . |
8 | ‘ It 's the need to unburden yourself to someone who will listen , ’ Lucy said . |
9 | The moment teachers feel safe enough to tell the truth ( which is often anywhere but in their own staffrooms ) , they rush to unburden themselves of feelings and symptoms such as those which I have described , and are surprised and relieved that other people are feeling the same way . |
10 | Once , after a particularly sharp contraction , she had a sudden wish to unburden herself to her mother , to tell her that her grandchild had nothing to do with John Carrow , but that its father bore a striking resemblance to Tom Tremayne . |
11 | Jane is convinced that this refusal to unburden herself to friends led to increased frustrations for her mother . |
12 | He appreciated how that quality was still apparent tonight ; although now , in the half-light , he thought he could detect something else : relief , perhaps , at being able to unburden herself at last . |
13 | It may not be ready to unburden itself before NT ships . |
14 | To recognise where a reform is urgently required and must be effected at any cost , or where it may be postponed , or where it may be counted on to effect itself without outside influence , and , perhaps most important of all , to be able to recognise the fact that certain reforms would be beneficial could they be effected but that it is not possible to effect them at all ; to be able to arrive at a right decision on such points as these is what is chiefly required of a Resident . |
15 | There is no need to change this law , and as far as I am aware no need for Mr. Byran to distress himself upon the umpires ' behalf . |
16 | The programmes on the computers , also accessible to visitors to Pompeii itself in the small museum at Boscoreale , are the culmination of what is known as the Neapolis project . |
17 | I too pondered over making up a few of my own out of spring steel , but decided to try the cheaper option of a note to Warwick themselves before going down this route . |
18 | Both local associations pointed unambiguously to slavery itself as the disruptive factor ; only with emancipation would ‘ a Population of turbulent Slaves [ be ] converted into one of peaceable Colonists ’ . |
19 | The Poles of the Prussian marches had been under pressure to Germanise themselves for centuries . |
20 | During his stay , he set to work himself on the principle divide et impera . |
21 | If necessary he would walk to Lenin himself in Moscow . |
22 | Alix bought some the next day , on her free half day in Cambridge before she took the Bletchley route to her Oxford interview ( for she was a clever girl , Alix ) — but she never dared to apply it , save in the privacy of her own room , until she went to Cambridge herself as a bona fide student the following autumn . |
23 | On the subject of hitch-hiking , many self-defence books advise that it is safe to pick up hitch-hikers or to hitch-hike yourself in certain circumstances . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Given the pressures of external demands , the size of the diocese , and the problems of travelling to over 300 parishes , most bishops and their officers had to content themselves with regular exhortations and punishing the worst , or least skilful , clerical offenders . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | It would have been even better had a Word for Windows style drag and drop edit facility been included with that , but , for the moment , you have to content yourself with good ol' cut and paste , I 'm afraid . |
28 | Mr Devi Lal , for example , who had been lobbying hard for the home ministry to add to his deputy premiership , had to content himself with the agriculture ministry . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | The intrepid manager had to content himself with numbering his reserve teams . |