Example sentences of "[vb past] commit [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd committed herself to God 's ways , and to God 's people , and God directs her , and she comes to the field of Boaz And there was none more able to meet her need . |
| 2 | They also declined to commit themselves to an extension of the May ceasefire , although the possibility of an outbreak of large-scale fighting was minimized by the onset of the rainy season . |
| 3 | I decided to commit myself to the revolution and in January 1981 , went to the Frente Paracentral , which at that time covered parts of the Departments of Cabanas . |
| 4 | I was due to pay my second visit to my surgeon after my operation , and I had committed myself to returning to the Centre for a day visit at the end of October . |
| 5 | With my finances stretched to the limit because I had committed myself to spending all of that May in the Highlands , I drove back to the pub in Glenelg to consider it . |
| 6 | They had committed themselves to a movement and had no option but to drive it through to its end . |
| 7 | There were signs of celebration in Brussels and in Paris last night that the West Germans had committed themselves to a closing date in return for a delay in starting the move to monetary union . |
| 8 | It was probably natural that the community they set up was so convinced of its own religious ideals that it thought toleration was harmful , but it was also natural that the strong-minded people who had committed themselves to this Atlantic crossing were not able to agree among themselves what was the true religion to which they were so committed . |
| 9 | When the gentlemen in the Commons realised what they had committed themselves to , they quickly extended this surcharge to the goods of merchants ( and others ) of like value . |
| 10 | Although his hesitations had alarmed some of them and although his acute shortage of money remained an embarrassment right up to the end , yet the rebels had committed themselves to him . |
| 11 | In Britain the new anatomy was seen as especially threatening because the traditional sources of power and influence had committed themselves to Paley 's argument from design . |
| 12 | Sting and Peter Gabriel had committed themselves to the Amnesty world tour later that year so gave the June concerts a miss , and Simple Minds had already said yes to the Nelson Mandela birthday celebration the week before . |
| 13 | The Republicans had committed themselves in 1920 to remaining outside the League of Nations , and there was no serious attempt to reverse this policy subsequently . |
| 14 | He was a very strong , patient , virile bloke who went on living with an awful woman because he had committed himself to a marriage . |
| 15 | If a borrower had rashly signed a credit agreement and then discovered he had committed himself to paying what he considered disproportionate interest , he could have his opinion confirmed , or shown to be unreasonable , by a court . |
| 16 | By the end of 1337 Edward had committed himself to spending £124,000 on his allies , and his parliamentary grants would bring in only about £38,000 a year . |
| 17 | Yet as he had committed himself to bringing her up here , so Ashley felt stubbornly committed to walking . |
| 18 | But as ENDS magazine pointed out , by February 1990 the electricity industry had committed itself to only one third of this : 4,000 MW of FGD . |
| 19 | Arafat had tried to keep his Fatah guerrillas out of the fighting , but when the Phalange and Chamounists laid siege to the Palestinian camps of Karantina and Tel al-Za'atar , the PLO had committed itself to the war on the side of the Muslims and leftists . |
| 20 | For the first time in peace , the US government had committed itself to a firm military alliance . |
| 21 | ( Italy had committed itself to a smaller margin of fluctuation within the EMS in January 1990 — see p. 37198 . ) |
| 22 | Prior to its election in 1990 , however , the National Party had committed itself to holding a referendum on the issue . |
| 23 | Connolly is playing for Canterbury-Bankstown in Australia 's Winfield Cup and refused to commit himself to a new contract before going Down Under . |
| 24 | Last year Mexico blocked agreement to tighten up the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty , which polices world trade in nuclear fuel , because others refused to commit themselves to a test ban . |
| 25 | Six days later the TUC Congress finally called weakly for ‘ practical aid ’ to the strikers but refused to commit itself to cutting off supplies . |