Example sentences of "had committed [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was due to pay my second visit to my surgeon after my operation , and I had committed myself to returning to the Centre for a day visit at the end of October . |
| 2 | With my finances stretched to the limit because I had committed myself to spending all of that May in the Highlands , I drove back to the pub in Glenelg to consider it . |
| 3 | They had committed themselves to a movement and had no option but to drive it through to its end . |
| 4 | There were signs of celebration in Brussels and in Paris last night that the West Germans had committed themselves to a closing date in return for a delay in starting the move to monetary union . |
| 5 | The operation was run on a ‘ me too ’ basis , so Greenwich , for example , was only to be approached after Haringey and Newham had committed themselves . |
| 6 | It was probably natural that the community they set up was so convinced of its own religious ideals that it thought toleration was harmful , but it was also natural that the strong-minded people who had committed themselves to this Atlantic crossing were not able to agree among themselves what was the true religion to which they were so committed . |
| 7 | When the gentlemen in the Commons realised what they had committed themselves to , they quickly extended this surcharge to the goods of merchants ( and others ) of like value . |
| 8 | Although his hesitations had alarmed some of them and although his acute shortage of money remained an embarrassment right up to the end , yet the rebels had committed themselves to him . |
| 9 | The Republicans had committed themselves in 1920 to remaining outside the League of Nations , and there was no serious attempt to reverse this policy subsequently . |
| 10 | In Britain the new anatomy was seen as especially threatening because the traditional sources of power and influence had committed themselves to Paley 's argument from design . |
| 11 | In the Declaration all , including the poorer Commonwealth countries whose economic and social problems might inhibit their ability to meet fully the criteria for democracy which the Declaration laid down , had committed themselves to promote democracy , as well as " the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary and a just and honest government " . |
| 12 | Sting and Peter Gabriel had committed themselves to the Amnesty world tour later that year so gave the June concerts a miss , and Simple Minds had already said yes to the Nelson Mandela birthday celebration the week before . |
| 13 | He was a very strong , patient , virile bloke who went on living with an awful woman because he had committed himself to a marriage . |
| 14 | It could be difficult persuading Eyre to undertake the direction of a play , but once he had committed himself his absorption was total . |
| 15 | If a borrower had rashly signed a credit agreement and then discovered he had committed himself to paying what he considered disproportionate interest , he could have his opinion confirmed , or shown to be unreasonable , by a court . |
| 16 | By the end of 1337 Edward had committed himself to spending £124,000 on his allies , and his parliamentary grants would bring in only about £38,000 a year . |
| 17 | He had committed himself , you see , so he was technically free to go , but they apparently lock the gates on patients all the same . ’ |
| 18 | He 'd sounded regretful but pointed out that he had committed himself and felt it would be ill-mannered to tell his hostess he had now made other arrangements . |
| 19 | There were too many variables for his liking , but he had committed himself now . |
| 20 | She could not imagine him chasing after other women once he had committed himself , could not imagine him being so insensitive as to leave a woman — his woman — wondering why he was so late arriving home , or whether he was coming home at all . |
| 21 | Yet as he had committed himself to bringing her up here , so Ashley felt stubbornly committed to walking . |
| 22 | He says his only reason for deciding to kill Caesar was that he had committed himself to help the general public . |
| 23 | In her silent way , she had committed herself entirely to a life for art 's sake . |
| 24 | It was Saturday , half over already , and that meant only three more entire days remained before Christmas Day , the coming Wednesday , when she had committed herself , she now feared rashly , to festivities with the Danbys . |
| 25 | Knowing only too well that she had committed herself , that she was in too deep now to change her story , she declared , ‘ It does n't make any difference whether you re-phrase the question or not , the answer 's still the same . ’ |
| 26 | But as ENDS magazine pointed out , by February 1990 the electricity industry had committed itself to only one third of this : 4,000 MW of FGD . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | For the first time in peace , the US government had committed itself to a firm military alliance . |
| 29 | ( Italy had committed itself to a smaller margin of fluctuation within the EMS in January 1990 — see p. 37198 . ) |
| 30 | Lee also requested that Russia undertake legal guarantees to repay the US$1,800 million which South Korea had provided , or had committed itself to provide , to Russia and the other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) in 1991 . |