Example sentences of "commit himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Conservative Party juggernaut was last night rolling backwards and forwards across the person of Sir Anthony Meyer after he had virtually committed himself to standing against Mrs Thatcher when the annual leadership contest is formally declared open today . |
| 2 | He was a very strong , patient , virile bloke who went on living with an awful woman because he had committed himself to a marriage . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For example , one person 's faith may be a genuine trust in God but also a trust in certain Christian friends , while another person has truly committed himself to God and also to the care of a Christian community . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Despite the retirement of coaching team-mates Jim Telfer and Derrick Grand after the recent World Cup , Ian McGeechan has committed himself to a further term as Scotland 's principal coach . |
| 8 | Jonathan has committed himself to rising early enough to get in for work before 9.00am . |
| 9 | Anselm had no doubt where justice lay : ‘ No man having put his hand to the plough [ that is to say , in this case , having committed himself to a monastic life ] and looking back , is fit for the kingdom of Heaven . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | James Tyrell had evidently committed himself to the Yorkists by 1471 , when he was knighted at Tewkesbury , and it may have been links with the crown which eased his passage into Gloucester 's service . |
| 12 | He had not yet finally committed himself to subordinating all his other interests to tragedy , but was still toying with ideas of a wider scope . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | James Tyrell had evidently committed himself to the Yorkists by 1471 , when he was knighted at Tewkesbury , and it may have been links with the crown which eased his passage into Gloucester 's service . |
| 15 | After designing an architect 's dream , he will then have to try and make it functional , having committed himself to a particular shape and size . |
| 16 | Yet as he had committed himself to bringing her up here , so Ashley felt stubbornly committed to walking . |
| 17 | He would have been a natural replacement for Blair , but in another cruel twist , Gallagher , a university student in Northampton , has committed himself to the English club this season and will not be available to Dungannon for the league . |
| 18 | He has committed himself to us . |
| 19 | Having committed himself by revealing defence secrets , such freedom of speech seemed a trivial matter . |
| 20 | After the banks ' nationalisation he sold most of his interests in the dozen or so companies he had created and drawn his wealth from , and committed himself to combating the existing political system . |
| 21 | At a press conference he committed himself to a big recruitment drive for Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution , and , if necessary , to putting more resources into local authorities in order to make the bill work . |
| 22 | But it should be remembered that his was an extremely impassioned and subjective response of a man who had fought in Spain , toured some of the depressed North and committed himself to the increasing intellectual and left-wing policies of the Independent Labour Party . |
| 23 | I believe that he committed himself to assuring that he would never be party to such a thing again if he could prevent it . |
| 24 | DEFENDER David Lee yesterday committed himself to Chelsea until 1996 . |
| 25 | ‘ If he committed himself to Britain by actually living here he might find a bit more warmth forthcoming from the British public . |
| 26 | He committed himself to helping the future of rugby when he was elected president of a relaunched Young England Club . |
| 27 | Following my economically truthful pronouncements on the local meteorological trends ( I had already been for a pee ) , he reluctantly committed himself to an extended struggle with frozen boots and gaiters , muttering foul oaths about his much vaunted , but now soaked , pair of newly customised salopettes . |
| 28 | Confronted by noble resistance and alarmed by foreign upheaval , Nicholas had shelved the issue and committed himself to upholding the status quo at home and abroad . |
| 29 | In desperation the Tsar appointed Witte to handle the crisis , committed himself to creating a unified cabinet under Witte 's premiership , and on 17 October issued a historic Manifesto . |
| 30 | For all the music 's stylistic instability , I prefer these two early sonatas , before Krenek committed himself to serial techniques so consistently for most of the rest of his life . |