Example sentences of "have [verb] [pn reflx] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally in the pursuit of profit he has to sacrifice himself to the ordeal of a business lunch with a customer , supplier or business contact . |
| 2 | A stone age management opportunity has revealed itself to the Directors of AIB Bank plc in Britain . |
| 3 | Once man has habituated himself to the world of emotions which is a form of the transcendent , it is possible for him to cross into it at will . |
| 4 | The observer has to submit himself to the way things are . |
| 5 | He 's a good motivator , has endeared himself to the players and if they 're on your side as a manager you 've got at least a fighting chance . |
| 6 | Leeds captain Gary McAllister has pledged himself to the champions . |
| 7 | One unfortunate and totally false legend which has attached itself to the Tilford Bach Festival is the idea that the choir consists of local people . |
| 8 | ‘ I was actually satisfied with that , if only because I 'd resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never be thin , ’ she admits . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't do it grudgingly , I 'd resigned myself to the fact that football was his burning passion . |
| 10 | The contractors , having racked themselves to the limit to fight off all other comers , may be forced to cut back on programme spending , to the detriment of exactly the kind of endeavours which may give delight to many but have no great appeal to the masses . |
| 11 | The authorities are thought of as having committed themselves to the maintenance of a particular unemployment rate irrespective of the inflationary consequences and of being prepared to carry over this policy at least into period t . |
| 12 | Having addressed themselves to the army and the treasury , the authorities turned to the Orthodox Church . |
| 13 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
| 14 | It must have transmitted itself to the patients , for even they gave up after their initial attempts at jollity , and by mid-morning a definite air of gloom seemed to have settled over the place . |
| 15 | It is a consideration which I should have applied myself to the assessment of general damages to favour this plaintiff . |
| 16 | Having hauled themselves to the top of the manual workers ' pay league , the reduction of miners ' political offensive to an economic demand foundered on the success of economism during the 1972 and 1974 pay offensives . |
| 17 | I hope now that the privileged few are having to lower themselves to the level of State schools , there will be more pressure on the Government to put some cash into education . |
| 18 | Having sold himself to the things he loves . |
| 19 | Fielding maintained that Lorne was all fucked out " , having gorged himself to the point of decrepitude during his first decade at the top , a common enough syndrome in the movie business . |
| 20 | Having reconciled myself to the situation , I felt I had to make a gift to Leslie of my acceptance . |
| 21 | I would have flogged myself to the death up to the end . |
| 22 | On reaching Arcady , he 'd attempted to call Zambia 's old apartment and had explained himself to the woman who now lived there . |
| 23 | Not that her cousin 's health had relapsed , or anything like that , but her mood had communicated itself to the twins , who 'd been particularly fractious and difficult . |
| 24 | But the worst of all was to read what she had finally written on the night before the bazaar , the night before he had added himself to the list of those who had betrayed her — It was the worst hurt of his life . |
| 25 | By now I had covered a fair expanse of this wood , and I had resigned myself to the fact that this would be the earliest I would get , regardless of what was in the ground . |
| 26 | About three weeks later , Jenny had resigned herself to the fact that she would stay . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Charles had pushed himself to the limit in the armed forces and had insisted upon doing the full training that his fellow officers did — despite protests from his superiors . |
| 30 | He had pushed himself to the limit . |