Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] to [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unabashed , Nicholas dedicated himself to purging the Congress Kingdom of dissent . |
| 2 | He committed himself to helping the future of rugby when he was elected president of a relaunched Young England Club . |
| 3 | Confronted by noble resistance and alarmed by foreign upheaval , Nicholas had shelved the issue and committed himself to upholding the status quo at home and abroad . |
| 4 | After the banks ' nationalisation he sold most of his interests in the dozen or so companies he had created and drawn his wealth from , and committed himself to combating the existing political system . |
| 5 | The National Party had in March 1990 committed itself to maintaining the ban which then ceased to be a domestic political issue . |
| 6 | Declaring that " corruption , indiscipline , mismanagement , tribalism , nepotism , injustice and thuggery " were rampant , the NPRC committed itself to returning the country to multiparty democracy in the " shortest possible time " . |
| 7 | The Thatcher government in particular , throughout its terms of office , repeatedly committed itself to cutting the burden of taxation , and thereby to increasing incentives and encouraging enterprise and initiative . |
| 8 | Spain 's Alcatel Sesa SA has taken control of two Polish companies , PZT Telkom , which employs 640 people in Warsaw , and Teletra , which has about 1,300 employees making public telephone exchanges ; Alcatel Sesa said it would guarantee jobs for 1,650 people at the two firms for the next 18 months and committed itself to increasing the capital of the two companies by another $25m within a year ; it plans to start manufacturing the Alcatel 1000 S-12 exchange in Poland , where it says it has already built eight digital exchanges in Poland with a $60m credit that was put up by the Spanish government . |
| 9 | But in 1920 the economy began to decline , unemployment rose and the government committed itself to following the advice of the Cunliffe Committee to return to the gold standard by 1925 . |
| 10 | On Nov. 27 , following direct talks brokered by the UN , dos Santos and Savimbi issued the " Namibie Declaration " in which they committed themselves to accepting the Bicesse Peace Accord and implementing a ceasefire , and to a continuing UN presence in the country . |
| 11 | They committed themselves to placing the framework within a comprehensive political settlement at a future meeting of the Paris International Conference on Cambodia [ see pp. 36848-49 for meeting of Paris Conference in August 1989 ] . |
| 12 | In view of these deficiencies , it was hardly surprising that the reformers who centred on the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich addressed themselves to transforming the courts very soon after Alexander II ascended the throne . |
| 13 | He finally resigned himself to memorizing the translated words , hoping to come across a matching entry on one of the invoices . |
| 14 | Thus Sylvia resigned herself to walking the streets until something turned up . |
| 15 | For four years he led beaver-trapping expeditions along the Snake with increasing success , while the Nez Perce warriors confined themselves to fleecing the less provident of Mackenzie 's Iroquois henchmen . |