Example sentences of "resign himself to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held his last press conference in 1955 , but no more than in 1946 did he resign himself to a permanent retirement . |
| 2 | From the yet more gloomy expression on his normally lugubrious face it was evident that he had resigned himself to her companionship at least as far as his hotel perched up far above the sea . |
| 3 | Mark Wright , bitterly disappointed at being axed by England , has resigned himself to missing tomorrow 's Anfield battle with Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 4 | At this Brian had resigned himself to living in the district . |
| 5 | He had almost resigned himself to the fact that this cop was too cautious to be caught out like the one he had almost jumped five nights previously , when without warning the man below stepped out from the shelter of the deep doorway . |
| 6 | By Oct. 14 he had resigned himself to submitting merely the question of proxy voting by husbands to the seven-member Constitutional Council set up in 1989 . |
| 7 | The Chief had resigned himself to Mahmoud but had not been expecting Owen . |
| 8 | Expo fever , Ruth had put it down to as Steve had been bowled over by the exquisite beauty of an air stewardess and , forgetting that the idea of being here was to make European contacts for their agency , had resigned himself to some enjoyable flirting . |
| 9 | Well , you know , once he , once he 's once he 's resigned himself to not getting this back . |
| 10 | But once he 's , once he 's resigned himself to that , he 's then got ta look at that operation next door and he must be losing money hand over fist for the amount of space it is . |
| 11 | And he 'd probably have to resign himself to that situation until he returned to Winchester . |
| 12 | But then let us add that sometimes , in the very depth of his love , he ( sic ) may have to resign himself to reading the text and , knowing what he knows , feeling what he feels , passing on in silence . |
| 13 | He finally resigned himself to memorizing the translated words , hoping to come across a matching entry on one of the invoices . |
| 14 | A severe attack of pneumonia a few weeks before the entrance examination destroyed his university hopes , and he resigned himself to working on his father 's farm . |
| 15 | Finally , Lear resigned himself to Gould 's impenetrable isolation , and , in a letter written in 1863 , came as close as he could to an objective description of his former employer and erstwhile friend : ‘ A more singularly offensive mannered man than G. hardly can be : but the queer fellow means well , tho 's more of an Egotist than can be described . ’ |
| 16 | He resigned himself to the single thought , that he would not see her again . |
| 17 | Wycliffe resigned himself to lying awake for the rest of the night but , in fact , he fell asleep and knew nothing more until he was awakened to broad daylight and seagulls squawking outside his window . |
| 18 | As they climbed into his estate car , he resigned himself to being late for his appointment in the town . |
| 19 | He resigned himself to the inevitable , and grudgingly muttered , ‘ Proceed with the prosecution . ’ |
| 20 | But he 'd shown definite signs of resigning himself to the situation — until her arrival downstairs after breakfast . |
| 21 | Though Xorandor resigns himself to his fate , he tells the children a secret : he has not in fact come from Mars at all but is a member of a race that has been living on Earth for millions of years , communicating over vast distances through radio pulses in binary code . |