Example sentences of "who have [verb] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You 're hardly a teenager who has to explain herself to her mother . ’
2 Here now is an Arab leader who has shown himself to be capable not only of standing up to the mightiest military force in the world , but also of retaliating .
3 ‘ There is at least one who has adapted himself to circumstance , ’ observed Theda .
4 The company had to give up the surplus stock it had accumulated at the expense of the public creditors and rescind its claims to be paid in full for the amount it had sold , but the real victims were the public creditors , who had to reconcile themselves to drastic losses in income and capital .
5 I was a war baby and a shame to my birth-dead mother who had given herself to the last-time-leave blandishments of my faceless father .
6 Lupold was never acceptable to the pope ( to whom he remained the bishop of Worms who had transferred himself to Mainz without papal licence ) and when at the end of 1204 Philip saw hope of victory he made a bad move by sending Lupold to Italy .
7 The militia was much in evidence last January during a week of demonstrations in the centre of Prague in memory of Jan Palach , the student who had burned himself to death in public protest 20 years before .
8 Fewer pigs are kept in these republics ( pork being an unclean meat for Muslims , as it is for Jews ) and traditional customs such as the postponement of cohabitation ( kaitarma ) , pilgrimages to the graves of local holy men and even abduction are still practised , in some cases with the covert support of local party officials ( most tragic of all were the reports of girls who had burned themselves to death after being dishonoured in this and other ways ) .
9 The Earl Marischal , who had supposed himself to be in charge , immediately yielded his position to Tullibardine , though retaining command of the ships which had brought them there .
10 Fortunately Annellie Clyde was an inspired teacher and Artemis , besides being a very talented rider was also an extremely quick learner , so much so that the principles of riding side-saddle were learned by the end of day two , although without the help of Artemis 's new horse , Hullabaloo , who had proved himself to be somewhat too fidgety and edgy to be included in the preliminary tuition .
11 A newcomer was Flight Lieutenant Rawnsley who had attached himself to L Detachment and went on several of their raids .
12 There had been a stray mongrel whom they had named Herbert , with a large uncoordinated body and look of lugubrious disapproval who had attached himself to them for a few weeks and whose voracious appetite for dog-meat and biscuits had had a ruinous effect on the housekeeping .
13 ‘ So I see , ’ she muttered , waiting while he gently removed from his neck the clinging arms of a laughing woman who had plastered herself to his front .
14 In temperament he was not unlike Surere , a career official who had dedicated himself to climbing to the top of the power structure , though he had chosen the priesthood as his channel .
15 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 .
16 At the other extreme there are women who have devoted themselves to perfecting physical beauty .
17 As conspiracy theorists outline their tales of mass deception , they can not but criticize the views of those who have allowed themselves to be fooled by the conspirators .
18 She will see those who have committed themselves to the traditional model of education , some as a matter of principle , but others because to question it opens up too big a can of worms .
19 she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship .
20 now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems .
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