Example sentences of "they have [verb] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could they have allowed themselves to be consumed ? |
| 2 | They 've lowered themselves to harrassment. 5 members have had visits at their homes . |
| 3 | Finally , by focusing upon the deficiencies of the young unemployed — their lack of training , their lack of qualifications , their lack of job search skills — it appeared that they had caused themselves to be unemployed . |
| 4 | They could n't read or write , but Topaz longed to know about the world in which she lived , learn about strange lands beyond the seas , and the even more puzzling ways of the gaujos who spent their whole time shut up in houses made of bricks or stone , as if they had condemned themselves to perpetual imprisonment . |
| 5 | After he had gone and after they had introduced themselves to each other , David Fairfax said reflectively , " I know that man . |
| 6 | But they had shown themselves to a human . |
| 7 | They had committed themselves to a movement and had no option but to drive it through to its end . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And those long gentle lines of the dip-slope of the Cotswolds , those misty uplands of the sheep-grey oolite , how they have lent themselves to the villainous requirements of the new age ! |
| 10 | But only at the moment when they have proven themselves to be better than the incumbent . |
| 11 | Still , they have proven themselves to be extremely effective , when compared with conventional methods particularly because of their speed . |
| 12 | It is an opportunity of which they have availed themselves to varying degrees . |
| 13 | Because up to this point they have n't achieved a lighter weight and they have conditioned themselves to believing they ca n't . |
| 14 | ‘ I am fasting to live in solidarity with all who suffer and are persecuted because they have committed themselves to social justice . |
| 15 | Even moving from high to low cost areas can raise difficulties — employees may doubt that they will ever be able to move back to their home areas or other more expensive regions once they have committed themselves to living in a lower cost housing area . |
| 16 | But once they have committed themselves to an investment or two , the potential of a larger portfolio appeals , and they plunge beyond the point of easy return . |
| 17 | And in thinking of replacing the reverend with a ‘ thrusting businessman ’ , which Waddington believe ‘ is more than suitable for the 1990s ’ , they have shown themselves to be even more out of tune with modern times . |
| 18 | They have proved themselves to be hardy and disease resistant in a wide range of environments and are efficient food converters but perhaps not as thrifty as less productive breeds . |