Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Sometimes he would have liked to unburden himself to somebody , but his officers and men had their own problems . |
| 4 | Also , it seemed to Bénezet , in some excitement , and in haste to unburden himself to someone about whatever was on his mind . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's the need to unburden yourself to someone who will listen , ’ Lucy said . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Jane is convinced that this refusal to unburden herself to friends led to increased frustrations for her mother . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It may not be ready to unburden itself before NT ships . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | During his stay , he set to work himself on the principle divide et impera . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The intrepid manager had to content himself with numbering his reserve teams . |
| 25 | So should we be surprised that the architect has to content himself with high fees most of the time as his reward when an ungrateful society refuses to thank him ? |
| 26 | Lord Elphinstone had to content himself with the duke 's assurance that he ‘ would mention to those who mannage my affairs my being honoured with a letter from your Lordship & recommend unanimity upon this occasion … which I hope will be an inducement to the commissioners of supply to settle without varience ’ . |
| 27 | He had to content himself with the fact that it was mostly a one-way affair . |
| 28 | He says in the autobiography erm my view was that every president was a and this was a famous phrase every president was a steward of the people , a steward of the people , bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin curious turn of phrase I decline he says to adopt the view that what is imperatively necessary for the nation can not be done unless the president can find some specific authorization to do it in the constitution . |
| 29 | Now he has to content himself with the fact that the only replica of a Captain Cook ship he has been involved in was one built for the new shopping centre in Middlesbrough eight years ago . |
| 30 | So , in order to get his views across , such a candidate has to content himself with stuffing letter boxes , distributing tracts , and holding poorly attended public meetings in bare , underheated school assembly halls . |