Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When at 10.45am we had resigned ourselves to a day of swimming and sunbathing a farmer pulled up and asked , in German , if we were waiting for him . |
| 2 | Such is the importance of education and training that we have committed ourselves to a programme of investment of £1.7 billion . |
| 3 | I told him that we had already committed ourselves to a cut of one half in our sub-strategic nuclear weapons and to smaller conventional forces . |
| 4 | He was a very strong , patient , virile bloke who went on living with an awful woman because he had committed himself to a marriage . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Despite the fact that he had not committed himself to the rising until the last moment , he was quickly consolidating the initiative he had taken in Morocco and was emerging as its sole leader . |
| 7 | He had almost resigned himself to the fact that this cop was too cautious to be caught out like the one he had almost jumped five nights previously , when without warning the man below stepped out from the shelter of the deep doorway . |
| 8 | But the worst of all was to read what she had finally written on the night before the bazaar , the night before he had added himself to the list of those who had betrayed her — It was the worst hurt of his life . |
| 9 | ‘ My stomach had all but resigned itself to a life of poverty . ’ |
| 10 | Nevertheless , under pressure from the separatist Parti Québecois ( PQ ) , the Liberal provincial government of Robert Bourassa had already committed itself to a referendum on secession by Oct. 26 unless an agreement had been reached on a new constitutional structure . |
| 11 | This this Council has now committed itself to a equality of opportunity and social justice . |
| 12 | The party committed itself to the defence of " democracy , national identity and sovereignty " . |
| 13 | Arafat had tried to keep his Fatah guerrillas out of the fighting , but when the Phalange and Chamounists laid siege to the Palestinian camps of Karantina and Tel al-Za'atar , the PLO had committed itself to the war on the side of the Muslims and leftists . |
| 14 | At no time had she addressed herself to the credibility or otherwise of anything in the report . |
| 15 | About three weeks later , Jenny had resigned herself to the fact that she would stay . |
| 16 | The courts have also addressed themselves to the question of whether natural justice or fairness applies to matters of a legislative nature . |
| 17 | Having addressed themselves to the army and the treasury , the authorities turned to the Orthodox Church . |
| 18 | The absence of any coherent and agreed philosophy for the media in many African countries is a matter which is of obvious concern to many of that continent 's politicians as well as its media professionals , and a number of African leaders have addressed themselves to the problem . |
| 19 | I mean I think I 've already resigned myself to the fact that I 'm going to have to do one maybe two years more before I get anything like |
| 20 | By now I had covered a fair expanse of this wood , and I had resigned myself to the fact that this would be the earliest I would get , regardless of what was in the ground . |
| 21 | ‘ I was actually satisfied with that , if only because I 'd resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never be thin , ’ she admits . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't do it grudgingly , I 'd resigned myself to the fact that football was his burning passion . |
| 23 | The newspapers confined themselves to the show itself . |
| 24 | Well , well , well , Captain , I nearly did you a great injustice a minute or two ago , I thought you had not perhaps addressed yourself to the problem on hand . |
| 25 | The trend indicates that as the date for reauthorisation approaches , liberals have resigned themselves to the fact the NEA chairmanship is not a rostrum for ethics , but a political post . |
| 26 | Once you have committed yourself to a policy , you will not usually be able to move your money without considerable financial penalty . |
| 27 | People who go out of that door have committed themselves to a date . |
| 28 | The friends of David Cunningham , such as Colonel Blackadder , had to be put off with a clear refusal , and a request to persuade Cunningham to withdraw , while at the same time every effort had to be made to engage all those gentlemen who had not committed themselves to a candidate to rally to Kirkton . |
| 29 | How can the Government give an assurance that there will be no change in VAT rates when , under the Single European Act , the Government have already committed themselves to a policy of convergence of VAT rates throughout the European Community ? |
| 30 | They had committed themselves to a movement and had no option but to drive it through to its end . |