Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] to [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had already committed himself to more work than he could handle because he was inexperienced at making deals and having to turn down work . |
| 2 | Once you 've committed yourself to that theme , the route 's discreet wealth unfolds , and its names are movement and texture . |
| 3 | I can look back with pride on recalling how well I had adapted myself to this trade , and all aspects involved . |
| 4 | After he had gone and after they had introduced themselves to each other , David Fairfax said reflectively , " I know that man . |
| 5 | He could perhaps have submitted himself to some army medical board , but whether they would have enthused over the application of a 48-year-old epileptic syphilitic with no military experience except that acquired while shooting wild-life in the desert |
| 6 | Disproportionately she had longed , in the interminable wastes of adolescence , in the grey and monotonous steppes , and some of the longing had attached itself to this night , this one night of the year , when others ( she knew from school friends , from the radio , from novels ) , when others went to parties and celebrated whatever was about to be . |
| 7 | The VNODD as well as the communists had already been involved in fomenting strikes but on the whole they do not seem to have attached themselves to any cause other than nationalism and , while they were particularly active in attempting to subvert the army , when they finally and out of desperation , having been heavily penetrated by the Sûreté , attempted to begin their armed struggle , many of the Vietnamese riflemen in the battalion , which was induced to mutiny , rallied instead to their French officers . |