Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] to one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elise Fox , happily unmarried at thirty-two , was rarely without an escort , but never showed the least sign of tying herself to one man for good . |
| 2 | But because a survey is a personal matter and a personal responsibility , you ought to insist on meeting the surveyor first before committing yourself to one particular firm . |
| 3 | It 's best to ‘ shop around ’ before committing yourself to one company . |
| 4 | This way you may be able to get a taste of different or unusual working environments before committing yourself to one or the other . |
| 5 | But he did not wait for a reply before throwing himself to one side as a sabre whistled down and buried itself deep in the brickwork of the window sill where he had been sitting . |
| 6 | What we have done to ourselves is to destroy the adventure of life by rooting ourselves to one spot in the physical sense , and demoralising ourselves by forcing the mind to spend its time on nuts and bolts and the rest of our shoddy interests , when it is thirsting for the trackless regions of the nomads . |
| 7 | The best way of doing this was by attaching themselves to one of their country 's missions abroad , serving in it in a junior and normally unpaid capacity and thus acquiring experience of diplomatic methods and routines as well as of a foreign country . |
| 8 | At first it might appear simple to unravel a particular doubt by relating it to one of the seven broad categories , but first appearances are deceptive . |