Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] [pn reflx] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contractors , having racked themselves to the limit to fight off all other comers , may be forced to cut back on programme spending , to the detriment of exactly the kind of endeavours which may give delight to many but have no great appeal to the masses . |
| 2 | His final decision is in favour of whichever proves stronger , but the stronger for perhaps no more than the brief spell of fullest awareness in which he decides , afterwards to be panic-stricken at having committed himself to a choice which none the less he still knows in his heart was right . |
| 3 | Anselm had no doubt where justice lay : ‘ No man having put his hand to the plough [ that is to say , in this case , having committed himself to a monastic life ] and looking back , is fit for the kingdom of Heaven . ’ |
| 4 | After designing an architect 's dream , he will then have to try and make it functional , having committed himself to a particular shape and size . |
| 5 | When an emotionally articulate speaker wants to convey to me , not the fact that he is sad , but in what way and to what degree , his language becomes rhythmic and metaphorical , pulls me to his viewpoint to visualize his situation becomes a poetry which infects me with his melancholy and a rhetoric stirring me to help him , and afterwards perhaps I find myself regretting having committed myself to an action in his interests rather than my own . |
| 6 | The authorities are thought of as having committed themselves to the maintenance of a particular unemployment rate irrespective of the inflationary consequences and of being prepared to carry over this policy at least into period t . |
| 7 | Having addressed themselves to the army and the treasury , the authorities turned to the Orthodox Church . |
| 8 | Having hauled themselves to the top of the manual workers ' pay league , the reduction of miners ' political offensive to an economic demand foundered on the success of economism during the 1972 and 1974 pay offensives . |
| 9 | Having sold himself to the things he loves . |
| 10 | He did not know , indeed , which hurt him the most — the memory of the bright young girl she had been , or the knowledge that now , having sold herself to a rich old man , she had come , once that man had died , to try to buy him for herself . |
| 11 | Fielding maintained that Lorne was all fucked out " , having gorged himself to the point of decrepitude during his first decade at the top , a common enough syndrome in the movie business . |
| 12 | Having reconciled myself to the situation , I felt I had to make a gift to Leslie of my acceptance . |