Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] to [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should restrict ourselves to trying to understand , and then try to help them expand and develop what they want to say . |
| 2 | Since there has been such extensive research on both systems we have had to be selective : we have therefore confined ourselves to discussing just one line of work in connection with each . |
| 3 | We have never committed ourselves to meeting it , no matter how high the rate . |
| 4 | The announcement of our success , subject to the specific changes agreed during the validation being made , was welcomed by all concerned but the realisation that we had now committed ourselves to commencing a new course on 5 September 1988 made for a summer of hard curriculum development work . |
| 5 | What it really means of course is that erm I 've committed ourselves to doing the dare I say it , the odd jobs . |
| 6 | ‘ We should confine ourselves to maintaining safety and not restrict people 's freedom of expression , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Surely , then , we can confine ourselves to exploring the syntactical properties of such expressions and leave the ontological and epistemological issues , temporarily at least , to one side ? |
| 8 | Here , we will confine ourselves to obtaining all efficient BFSs and , as our first task , we will develop a test to determine whether the BFS corresponding to a given tableau is efficient . |
| 9 | If it is possible to show that existential propositions are equivalent to denials of the validity of inferences of a certain kind , then instead of talking about existence we can confine ourselves to talking about the validity of inference . |
| 10 | Jonathan has committed himself to rising early enough to get in for work before 9.00am . |
| 11 | He had not yet finally committed himself to subordinating all his other interests to tragedy , but was still toying with ideas of a wider scope . |
| 12 | Yet as he had committed himself to bringing her up here , so Ashley felt stubbornly committed to walking . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | THE Conservative Party juggernaut was last night rolling backwards and forwards across the person of Sir Anthony Meyer after he had virtually committed himself to standing against Mrs Thatcher when the annual leadership contest is formally declared open today . |
| 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 | Owen also does not confine himself to writing only one type of poem but uses many different kinds so to appeal to more people . |
| 17 | In the reply he is not allowed to introduce any new matter and must confine himself to replying to the points made in the discussion and to summarising the main arguments he put forward when moving the motion . |
| 18 | At this Brian had resigned himself to living in the district . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Mark Wright , bitterly disappointed at being axed by England , has resigned himself to missing tomorrow 's Anfield battle with Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 21 | As a youth , he was never an avid record collector and he had no real interest in applying himself to mastering an instrument . |
| 22 | From then on he devoted himself to buying , selling and exhibiting horses , travelling the length and breadth of Britain in his quest for outstanding stock . |
| 23 | DAVEY Boy Smith left his 14-year-old schoolfriends to chase girls while he dedicated himself to building up his body in the gym . |
| 24 | After his wife died , he dedicated himself to caring for Rosie . |
| 25 | Unabashed , Nicholas dedicated himself to purging the Congress Kingdom of dissent . |
| 26 | The pope seems to have confined himself to insisting on the prohibition of lay investiture . |
| 27 | No manufacturer has yet committed itself to using the Cosworth engine , which is expected to be fully ready for production by June . |
| 28 | The Provisional Government committed itself to recognizing the right of national self-determination and , in place of the old Tsarist governors , installed in the minority areas governing committees of local dignitaries and deputies of the relevant nationality to the national parliament , the Duma . |
| 29 | Prior to its election in 1990 , however , the National Party had committed itself to holding a referendum on the issue . |
| 30 | The government has , however , not committed itself to publishing the review and , Courtney added , it is unlikely to be published in its entirety as it may contain sharp judgements about the usefulness or effectiveness of some research activities . |