Example sentences of "have [vb pp] himself to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Word was made flesh in Jesus Christ ; God has given himself to be understood in our terms and on our level ; and even in these terms and on that level it is the reality of God that is given for us to understand . |
| 2 | Mark Wright , bitterly disappointed at being axed by England , has resigned himself to missing tomorrow 's Anfield battle with Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Jonathan has committed himself to rising early enough to get in for work before 9.00am . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He has committed himself to us . |
| 7 | It is quite enough for me to try to grasp the way in which God has disclosed himself to us . |
| 8 | Theologians often distinguish between God as he is in himself , and God as he has revealed himself to us . |
| 9 | Since winning the super-heavyweight gold at last year 's Olympics , the London-born but Canadian-raised fighter has shown himself to be anything but another pugilistic stereotype . |
| 10 | Over and over again in the past few weeks he has shown himself to be leading a rudderless , aimless Government . |
| 11 | ‘ Mr Bradburn has shown himself to be a fine teacher and a popular colleague . ’ |
| 12 | William Waldegrave , Secretary of State for Health , has shown himself to be no friend of the tobacco industry over the past few weeks . |
| 13 | During the last few months as we have got to know him better , he has shown himself to be exactly the sort of person we had hoped Annabelle would marry — charming , sincere , reliable — with a clear idea of what he wants from life and how to achieve it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Recently he has shown himself to be too easily swayed by Mossadesq " a threats … " |
| 16 | Despite the shock that he must have felt as he drove to what he expected to be his hangar on the morning after , he has shown himself to a man of warm priorities : ‘ People and their problems are more important than airplanes , ’ he has commented . |
| 17 | Once man has habituated himself to the world of emotions which is a form of the transcendent , it is possible for him to cross into it at will . |
| 18 | Toks Akpata has devoted himself to changing the Laws to reduce the risk of spinal injury . |
| 19 | The Shell Series will be over by then , and Crowe has devoted himself to Auckland 's cause . |
| 20 | Studied under Lawrence Gowing and Victor Pasmore at Newcastle University , where he gained his BA in Fine Art from 1963 to 1989 , since when he has devoted himself to his painting . |
| 21 | ‘ There is at least one who has adapted himself to circumstance , ’ observed Theda . |
| 22 | MODEL David Wood has proved himself to be the brave face of '93 by winning a top modelling event — just after a successful fight against cancer . |
| 23 | And as a result of that David Phillips who as I was saying in the first half has proved himself to be a very valuable all-rounder already to Forest has slotted back in at centre back again and that Garry Crosby has come on as substitute and taken up his usual position and Phillips ' first half position on the right wing . |
| 24 | ‘ Bobby has proved himself to be something of a medical miracle already by his resilience to the treatment . ’ |
| 25 | Okoye has endeared himself to team-mates and fans not only through his play on the field but through his incredibly modest behaviour off it . |
| 26 | He 's a good motivator , has endeared himself to the players and if they 're on your side as a manager you 've got at least a fighting chance . |
| 27 | Leeds captain Gary McAllister has pledged himself to the champions . |
| 28 | I see the whole chapter as a subtle but misconceived footnote to Crime and Punishment ; in these pages , instead of brushing past Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov in his return upon the underground man , Dostoevsky has allowed himself to be obstructed by them , and the result is a Stavrogin who compounds Raskolnikov 's bracing himself to enter the police station ‘ as a man ’ and confess with Svidrigailov 's reaching out in all directions , including the far extremes of moral and physical debauchery , in the hope that something , it does n't matter what , will make him unbored . |
| 29 | Jamil Kebbe ( Sunni member of the ‘ Salam Bloc ’ from Sidon ) has dedicated himself to removing as much political power from the Maronites as possible . |
| 30 | He 'd helped himself to Miss Lodsworth 's cider apples . ’ |