Example sentences of "he had committed [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a very strong , patient , virile bloke who went on living with an awful woman because he had committed himself to a marriage . |
| 2 | It could be difficult persuading Eyre to undertake the direction of a play , but once he had committed himself his absorption was total . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had committed himself , you see , so he was technically free to go , but they apparently lock the gates on patients all the same . ’ |
| 5 | He 'd sounded regretful but pointed out that he had committed himself and felt it would be ill-mannered to tell his hostess he had now made other arrangements . |
| 6 | There were too many variables for his liking , but he had committed himself now . |
| 7 | She could not imagine him chasing after other women once he had committed himself , could not imagine him being so insensitive as to leave a woman — his woman — wondering why he was so late arriving home , or whether he was coming home at all . |
| 8 | Yet as he had committed himself to bringing her up here , so Ashley felt stubbornly committed to walking . |
| 9 | He says his only reason for deciding to kill Caesar was that he had committed himself to help the general public . |
| 10 | I was surprised , therefore , to read ( in All Across the Telegraph : a Bob Dylan handbook edited by Michael Gray and John Bauldie , published by Futura ) an essay about the real William Zantzinger ( as it ought to be spelled ) who committed the murder in 1963 and as of 1984 was a respected and prosperous businessman in the same state , Maryland , where he had committed it . |
| 11 | Given that Paisley 's ability to predict political events had always been a major part of his public image , one would have expected the electorate to turn against him , especially when he had committed his personal prestige to the extent of offering to resign if the strike did not change British policy . |