Example sentences of "i [vb base] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 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 | Dostoevsky has an impudent way of making his narrator declare ‘ As a chronicler I confine myself to presenting events exactly as they happened , and it 's not my fault if they appear incredible ’ — like the son of the house writing home about his time on the North-West Frontier of India . |
| 3 | I restrict myself to pointing to the human misery that follows on such events and our human and Christian responsibilities in the face of such hardship . |
| 4 | It 's not just a case of him taking us with all of what we had and were and us belonging to him , but he says i in taking you to myself , he says I give myself to you . |
| 5 | Ann de Stratford ( Mrs Seed ) echoes this sentiment : ‘ I consider myself to be extremely fortunate to have a very happy marriage to someone who has never considered me as anything but an equal . |
| 6 | I open myself to you , Christ Jesus , and with joy I recognise your presence in my life . |
| 7 | When Epictetus was arguing with a rich man , someone said to him : ‘ If I devote myself to philosophy , I shall not own a farm , or have riches , or own silver goblets and gold plate . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ As I know myself to be entirely English … ’ she told Parliament in March 1702 , three days after her accession , ‘ there is not one thing you can expect or desire of me which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness or prosperity of England . ’ |
| 10 | He added : ‘ If elected , I commit myself to ensuring that a larger and stronger Labour opposition will challenge ceaselessly policies which damage our economy and divide our society . |
| 11 | Stand on top of this mountain , and shout out to the world below : ‘ I commit myself to my own growth . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ When I am in the car I am competing professionally and I commit myself to the job . |
| 13 | and Ruth says I commit myself to him , he will now be my god , and therefore your people will be my people , your home will be my home , your destiny will be my destiny the way is clear , she makes that greatest decision of her life , a decision that will affect the whole of her life but its not as say a life decision is a commitment now , we , we , we are always confronted , day after day we are confronted to make decisions , some of you make decisions and were not too committed about them , and if things alter they will change our minds , not just a ladies prerogative to change her mind , men do it as well and things happen and we think oh no well , I wo n't go through with that I 'll change my mind before its too late , but here Ruth she is not just making a decision , she is making a total commitment , a commitment that is worth time of the whole of her life , to promised to be loyal to de to Naomi and her deceased husband , she promises loyalty to Naomi 's race and the people of god , but above all she acknowledge 's Naomi 's god and her willingness to follow him to the end , you know this , how she finishes of this commitment where you die I will die its to the end its to the end of my life , I will not walk out of it and even after you 've gone mother in law , even after you are dead I am still committed to that decision , this decision I am making today where you die I will die , there I will be buried , and here she sorts of puts this solemn vow to this commitment , thus may the lord to do me and worse if any thing but death parts you and me . |
| 14 | ‘ Even so , before I commit myself to anything I need to know what a marriage would involve . ’ |
| 15 | It heals us of depression and sadness , as if they were intrinsic to the kind of person I believe myself to be . |
| 16 | And for a person in a somewhat delicate emotional condition , as I believe myself to be , this is hard to contemplate . |
| 17 | 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 . " |
| 18 | I dedicate myself to Higher Things . |
| 19 | I help myself to a drink and stare entranced at the bald patch in the shag-pile over by the door . |
| 20 | I abandon myself to you … |
| 21 | And again , just distinguishably : ‘ I surrender myself to you . |
| 22 | When he declared , ‘ I resign myself to everything and put up with everything ’ , he was rejoicing in his discovery that to behave like a child sometimes worked . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In Chapters 5–8 I address myself to the topic of experiences from a phenomenological point of view . |