Example sentences of "themselves to an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two sides to the civil war which had raged in the capital , Mogadishu , since mid-November committed themselves to an immediate ending of hostilities at UN-sponsored peace negotiations in New York on Feb. 14 . |
| 2 | Muslims too claim to address themselves to an external reality and their claim is parallel to the physicists ' . |
| 3 | On Sept. 6 the military authorities in Myanma arrested two high-ranking members of the opposition National League for Democracy ( NLD ) , acting chair Kyi Maung and Chit Khaing , on charges of " passing state evidence that they should have kept to themselves to an unconcerned person " . |
| 4 | But in Russia the masses refused to do so , refused to resign themselves to an indefinite period of subjection to capitalist exploitation . |
| 5 | Various possibilities present themselves to an active lad . |
| 6 | If they happened to attach themselves to an old woman who lived by herself , they were risking a savage death as a witch 's familiar . |