Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd got my toast and strawberry jam , I 'd treated myself to a doughnut as well , and I 'd got my bag and my money and my dreams back . |
| 2 | ‘ I was actually satisfied with that , if only because I 'd resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never be thin , ’ she admits . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't do it grudgingly , I 'd resigned myself to the fact that football was his burning passion . |
| 4 | I had registered for my classes , and Professor Ruiperez had shown me my lecture-rooms , where I had introduced myself to large classes of students , mixed men and women , with a preponderance of women , as is usual in foreign arts faculties . |
| 5 | I was due to pay my second visit to my surgeon after my operation , and I had committed myself to returning to the Centre for a day visit at the end of October . |
| 6 | With my finances stretched to the limit because I had committed myself to spending all of that May in the Highlands , I drove back to the pub in Glenelg to consider it . |
| 7 | By now I had covered a fair expanse of this wood , and I had resigned myself to the fact that this would be the earliest I would get , regardless of what was in the ground . |
| 8 | Perhaps if I had allowed myself to be doubtful , I might have understood Mick 's concern about the rules , and his inability to express it without aggressive confrontation . |
| 9 | I did enjoy myself , once I had accustomed myself to the way the Yanks danced . |
| 10 | I can look back with pride on recalling how well I had adapted myself to this trade , and all aspects involved . |
| 11 | If I had confined myself to initiating ‘ creative drama ’ or ‘ improvisation ’ , I might well have remained satisfied with his participation for he was indeed meeting all the requirements of dramatic playing . |
| 12 | I 'd live off my wits even though I 've geared myself to be a footballer . |
| 13 | ‘ No , I 've kept myself to myself for most of my life . |
| 14 | And then I feel that I 've given myself to somebody who thinks my heart is a pretty flower . |
| 15 | I 've committed myself to writing some notes on it in cooperation with you so that we can take them back to the group next week to discuss with the others . |
| 16 | I 'VE committed myself to one of the most dubious business deals of the year by investing £25 in a square yard of Doncaster Rovers ' football pitch . |
| 17 | What it really means of course is that erm I 've committed ourselves to doing the dare I say it , the odd jobs . |
| 18 | However , for the past two years I 've dedicated myself to it in total and , like yours , my trade has mushroomed . ’ |
| 19 | Therefore , in the description of the constellations here , I have limited myself to pairs where the components are not too unequal , and are at least 35 seconds of arc apart . |
| 20 | Now I have my lovely mate , I have schooled myself to be neither malicious nor miserable , and not to hate People . |
| 21 | ‘ I have cantered among the hyenas of the Serengeti as they brought down wildebeest ; I have danced the Wellington Boot Dance with the Zulu in the township hostels ; I have tiptoed through the Bibliothèque Nationale , listening to the gummy gumming of mundane scholars ; I have shelled prawns with slant-eyed androgynes in the polyglot souks of the uttermost East ; I have reached the nadir of a nonsensical number of psycho-sexual trances , both in the Amazonian hinterland and the plastic cultures of the Pacific rim ; I have subsumed myself to the circuitry of artificial cerebella in the silicone wadis ; I have crawled down the barrels of guns on all five continents , only to spring forth again — triumphant ; I have tittered in the stalls and tottered by the walls festooned with epicene opera-lovers ; I have sallied forth into the salons of the old world and the new ; I have hefted steins in the beerhalls and pinched flutes in the Shires ; I have raced laggardly protons around the cyclotron , revelling in the sempiternal sciamachy ; and — let us not forget — I have also hidden under couches whilst the moneyed pulers petted their kittenish neuroses , imagining themselves trusted , secluded . |
| 22 | I have exerted myself to be as charming as I can be perhaps you will reassure me , Therese , that I can still be charming when I try ? ’ |
| 23 | I have a highly talented son who , right or wrong , I have committed myself to . |
| 24 | Since January 1991 I have committed myself to full time study of the language , history and culture etc and have made a further four visits . |
| 25 | It is for this reason that I have confined myself to novels concerned with the period before 1914 . |
| 26 | Many libraries like ourselves have asked themselves to what extent the retention of these books [ rare books ] in any way contributes to the objectives of a modern public library . |
| 27 | The growing interest of hardware manufacturers in real-time functionality was demonstrated only a short while ago with the Overture Esprit project , which has dedicated itself to developing a real-time operating system for both the production industry and telecommunications services . |
| 28 | His address to army officers clearly underlined the split between the army and Prime minister Nawaz Sharif 's civilian government which has confined itself to condemnation of the large scale bombing of Iraq . |
| 29 | One unfortunate and totally false legend which has attached itself to the Tilford Bach Festival is the idea that the choir consists of local people . |
| 30 | Do not try to remove burnt material which has attached itself to your skin . |