Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | It must have transmitted itself to the patients , for even they gave up after their initial attempts at jollity , and by mid-morning a definite air of gloom seemed to have settled over the place . |
4 | A stone age management opportunity has revealed itself to the Directors of AIB Bank plc in Britain . |
5 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
6 | Not that her cousin 's health had relapsed , or anything like that , but her mood had communicated itself to the twins , who 'd been particularly fractious and difficult . |
7 | Having sold himself to the things he loves . |
8 | It appeared very much as if the judicial system had bent itself to the needs of the politicians and that , in particular , the principles of the rule of law to which the NIRC earlier paid such respect had been sacrificed to the expediency of the political and economic situation . |
9 | Instead , the main ingredient of success appears to be that they have consistently geared themselves to the needs of international trade . |
10 | No longer were we ‘ engagé volontaires ’ , who could be treated as nothings — we had proved ourselves to the instructors on our course , and henceforth they would treat us as legionnaires and expect us to behave as such . |
11 | He 's a good motivator , has endeared himself to the players and if they 're on your side as a manager you 've got at least a fighting chance . |
12 | As a result , PW had ‘ thereby disentitled itself to the fees it has been paid ’ . |
13 | Leeds captain Gary McAllister has pledged himself to the champions . |