Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in the days when he had yet concerned himself with the world . |
| 2 | Even a trial separation from Barnet was too much for Fry , who says that he could n't have looked himself in the mirror if he 'd refused to come back . |
| 3 | James Tyrell had evidently committed himself to the Yorkists by 1471 , when he was knighted at Tewkesbury , and it may have been links with the crown which eased his passage into Gloucester 's service . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that he had not committed himself to the rising until the last moment , he was quickly consolidating the initiative he had taken in Morocco and was emerging as its sole leader . |
| 5 | James Tyrell had evidently committed himself to the Yorkists by 1471 , when he was knighted at Tewkesbury , and it may have been links with the crown which eased his passage into Gloucester 's service . |
| 6 | He would have been a natural replacement for Blair , but in another cruel twist , Gallagher , a university student in Northampton , has committed himself to the English club this season and will not be available to Dungannon for the league . |
| 7 | Having extricated himself from the Archbishop 's service Mozart , this time accompanied by his mother , set off in search of an appointment elsewhere . |
| 8 | They moved to Dallas , and Graham has so immersed himself in the American way of life that I am surprised he has not sought American citizenship . |
| 9 | At 26 , then , young William Charles ( 'Call me Charles … ' ) had magically catapulted himself into the lower echelons of the Establishment — all achieved , we may suppose , with the help of a good head for business , a degree of energy and flamboyance and an ingratiating style with customers , especially ladies ? |
| 10 | He had almost resigned himself to the fact that this cop was too cautious to be caught out like the one he had almost jumped five nights previously , when without warning the man below stepped out from the shelter of the deep doorway . |
| 11 | For one thing he had discharged himself from the army and was listed as a deserter ; for another , he had a wife and two children ‘ somewhere in Norfolk ’ . |
| 12 | Mosley consciously educated himself through the writings of Keynes , Hobson and other Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) theorists to become the most perceptive of all government critics actively opposing the consensus of economic policy-making in the 1920s . |
| 13 | By middle age Bartram has so educated himself in the classics , sciences , medicines and above all , botany , that he was regarded as one of the intellectuals of his time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As time and cost constraints make extensive physical experimentation increasingly difficult to justify , the transport sector has installed itself at the forefront of the model revolution . |
| 16 | But after her refusal , Carol has received a letter from the council saying it has ‘ discharged itself of the responsibility of rehousing her as a homeless person ’ . |
| 17 | The CNAA , in its desire to ensure that the courses which it validates are of a sufficiently high standard , has necessarily concerned itself with the resources and ethos of institutions as a whole and has not hesitated to pass judgment on them , going , some would argue , beyond the responsibilities laid upon it by its Royal Charter . |
| 18 | In addition the strategic significance of the railways had impressed itself on the Bolsheviks . |
| 19 | The eagle was so evidently , so ferociously beautiful ; one would have thought that it could have impressed itself upon the most unwilling beholder . |
| 20 | In 1867 Bagehot may have been able to write that ‘ a republic has insinuated itself beneath the folds of a Monarchy ’ ( 1965/1867 : 94 ) . |
| 21 | His hand , which had insinuated itself beneath the cover , was sending her thoughts in an entirely different direction , and as his warm palm began rubbing gently across her back she totally lost track of what he was saying and had to desperately drag her mind back as he continued . |
| 22 | The first argument to scotch is that Britain has committed itself over the years to accepting the single currency and the central bank . |
| 23 | But if Mr Major is at heart opposed to greater union , Britain 's policy is likely to be affected by the institutional pressures of Whitehall , which has over the years committed itself to the pro-European line . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The party committed itself to the defence of " democracy , national identity and sovereignty " . |
| 26 | The non-proliferation treaty has not prevented countries like Israel , India and South Africa from secretly developing nuclear weapons , but at least they have not gone public with them and no country has officially added itself to the nuclear weapons states . |
| 27 | She has busied herself in the promotion of senior civil servants ( looking for people with energy and commitment ) and regularly badgered departments about progress on particular policies — ‘ like a dog after a bone ’ an adviser claims . |
| 28 | At no time had she addressed herself to the credibility or otherwise of anything in the report . |
| 29 | Dawn Allenby , a masochist if ever there was one , should have prostrated herself at the feet of Desmond Fairchild , a sadist in a trilby hat worn with the brim turned up all the way round like vaudeville comic . |
| 30 | ‘ Sara has never concerned herself with the business . ’ |