Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour Front-Bench Members seem to have committed themselves to a single currency despite the fact that some of their Back-Bench supporters continue strongly to oppose it , although they are having difficulty with the question whether a European central bank would be independent . |
| 2 | The pope seems to have confined himself to insisting on the prohibition of lay investiture . |
| 3 | This figure also illustrates that other interest , in problems which scarcely seem to have presented themselves to sculptors in the rest of Greece : alike in the patterns discoverable in the pull and hang of clothes , and in the relation of clothes to the body beneath . |
| 4 | Happily , happily the statement of faith does seem to have commended itself to a much larger number of presbyteries and kirk sessions and many indeed hundreds hundreds took the trouble to offer amendments and improvements to it . |
| 5 | He is reported to have invited himself to lunch with the Mayor of Bodmin , but firstly asked his worship for a gallows to be erected for a hanging . |
| 6 | She thought that Elizabeth was foolish to have married a silent countryman and to have condemned herself to a life of boredom , and that she should have known better . |
| 7 | But to have gone himself to Verdun at this hour would have demolished at a stroke the legend of imperturbability , upon which so much had been built , and the crash would have been deafening . |
| 8 | Wilson was quick to see how provocative such a development would be to the shipowners and refused to accept the post , though he confessed to have been " foolish enough to have allowed myself to be nominated and elected as honorary general manager , which meant that I was lending my name to an organization over which I had no control " . |
| 9 | Although the French may have persuaded themselves that they were moving as fast as they could towards the ‘ perfection ’ of Vietnamese independence , it was perhaps indulgent of Acheson to have allowed himself to be persuaded as well . |
| 10 | The VNODD as well as the communists had already been involved in fomenting strikes but on the whole they do not seem to have attached themselves to any cause other than nationalism and , while they were particularly active in attempting to subvert the army , when they finally and out of desperation , having been heavily penetrated by the Sûreté , attempted to begin their armed struggle , many of the Vietnamese riflemen in the battalion , which was induced to mutiny , rallied instead to their French officers . |
| 11 | 1900 is the year Walker achieved widespread recognition with ‘ Angela ’ and seems to have married herself to her artistic ambition from then on . |