Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Professor Camille has thoroughly enjoyed himself in looking at such images , and he skilfully shares with us his delight and enthusiasm for what he has found . |
| 35 | Before his horrific injury against Palace , Dublin must have still pinched himself after grabbing the headlines with his later winner at Southampton . |
| 36 | At this Brian had resigned himself to living in the district . |
| 37 | By Oct. 14 he had resigned himself to submitting merely the question of proxy voting by husbands to the seven-member Constitutional Council set up in 1989 . |
| 38 | Mark Wright , bitterly disappointed at being axed by England , has resigned himself to missing tomorrow 's Anfield battle with Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 39 | This doom he has brought upon himself ; in order to avoid seeing one thing he has , almost voluntarily , incapacitated himself from seeing at all . ’ |
| 40 | The pope seems to have confined himself to insisting on the prohibition of lay investiture . |
| 41 | No manufacturer has yet committed itself to using the Cosworth engine , which is expected to be fully ready for production by June . |
| 42 | The Provisional Government committed itself to recognizing the right of national self-determination and , in place of the old Tsarist governors , installed in the minority areas governing committees of local dignitaries and deputies of the relevant nationality to the national parliament , the Duma . |
| 43 | Prior to its election in 1990 , however , the National Party had committed itself to holding a referendum on the issue . |
| 44 | The government has , however , not committed itself to publishing the review and , Courtney added , it is unlikely to be published in its entirety as it may contain sharp judgements about the usefulness or effectiveness of some research activities . |
| 45 | The world has committed itself to providing water and sanitation for all by the year 1990 . |
| 46 | To give you the flexibility you need , one information and communication company has committed itself to providing answers that make sense for your particular needs . |
| 47 | You may know that the Government has committed itself to producing a National Sustainability Plan by the end of this year , for submission to the United Nations Sustainable Development Commission . |
| 48 | The institute has committed itself to continuing to offer practical help and communication expertise as long as it is needed in the recovery process . |
| 49 | The government has committed itself to reducing carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000 . |
| 50 | An additional complication comes from the fact that Congress has never committed itself to paying for the entire SSC . |
| 51 | The hon. Member for Sunderland , South ( Mr. Mullin ) might have mentioned that the local health authority has committed itself to eliminating all waiting lists of more than 12 months by the end of this calendar year . |
| 52 | The Tribunal noted that Ulster Bank has committed itself to remaining the major centre for development of Information Technology and notes the Bank 's assurance that it will expand and improve the facilities . |
| 53 | Future Labour Government 's committed itself to doing that , and I would suggest that the Secretary of State should do it , because we 're not guaranteed to receive that money at all . |
| 54 | Johnnies has firmly committed itself to playing such a role . ’ |
| 55 | ‘ What matters is that art — however you choose to define it — is still considered something worth bothering about . ’ |
| 56 | She had almost forgotten herself by walking to the big front door , and giggled inwardly at the shock that she would have given Mrs Parker if she had done so . |
| 57 | It amazed her that she 'd ever believed herself in love with him , that she 'd deluded herself into seeing his arrogance and his egotism as positive qualities . |
| 58 | There was a television in the apartment , but Kate had resolutely disciplined herself against turning it on . |
| 59 | How glad she was that Tom had finally badgered her into going . |
| 60 | In his own way he was as dangerous as Marcus — had n't he already trapped her into staying with him longer than she deemed either necessary or wise ? |