Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I called for the last time at the first house in the village and pressed the buzzer , but on getting no reply resigned myself to the long walk down the mountain . |
| 2 | Labour committed itself to immediate acceptance of the Maastricht social charter , with implications for low pay and for women , and to meeting the UN 's target for aid as a percentage of GNP within five years . |
| 3 | Exalted patriotism attached itself to victory over the United States in 1898 , to conquest in Morocco , even to the success of Peral 's submarine . |
| 4 | One question which arises is why , with 256 code values available in each byte , has this control process limited itself to the 128 7-bit codes ? |
| 5 | Had separatism confined itself to a political context , then however violent the discussion , its impact and effects would not have been a fraction of what they are . |
| 6 | The owner treated himself to the luxury of an SFIM two-axis autopilot for pitch and roll control . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Provisional Government committed itself to a wide range of reforms . |
| 9 | They 've not in the past shown themselves to be very honest erm nor very keen on going into their own archives , and I think it 's , actually takes people like me , who live on the border-lines if you like of the two cultures , to go in and discover erm sometimes embarrassing documents , embarrassing information , to confront them with it , in their own language , so that they have to take stock . |
| 10 | erm they have not in the past proved themselves to be the most capable o of people to er to support these things so in conclusion I 'd say that we must put this as part of a shopping list , the shopping list is on there er it is something to bring London and the South East of England which includes Hertfordshire and to make it an economic and viable area and look at the evidence of the other cities and I hope that er all of you will support the motion . |
| 11 | Hand restricted himself to University of London theses because of his ease of access to the original works , and he further restricted himself to a five year period . |
| 12 | Only when in technology body and image so interpenetrate that all revolutionary tension becomes bodily collective innervation , and all the bodily innervation of the collective becomes revolutionary discharge , has reality transcended itself to the extent demanded by the Communist Manifesto . |
| 13 | So wet was his shirt that the stencilled words , now reading ‘ I 'm an Essex Man ’ , had no doubt transferred themselves to his chest . |
| 14 | The English attached themselves to the idea of privatising the operator in its entirety . |
| 15 | The party committed itself to the defence of " democracy , national identity and sovereignty " . |