Example sentences of "[verb] himself to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | JH : When launching , say , into Beethoven 's Op. 2 No. 3 C major Sonata ( for example ) , do you still find yourself thinking very much of ‘ Beethoven the young lion ’ announcing himself to the world ? |
| 2 | Uncle Philip broke the armour off a pink battalion of shrimps and ate them steadily , chewed through a loaf of bread spread with half a pound of butter and helped himself to the lion 's share of the cake while gazing at her with expressionless satisfaction , apparently deriving a certain pleasure from her discomfort , or even finding that the sight of it improved his appetite . |
| 3 | ‘ So he went down , ’ said Frome , as if puzzling it out , ‘ and he helped himself to the headmaster 's sherry . ’ |
| 4 | He downed one tankard and , when the friar nodded , helped himself to the second . |
| 5 | Lord Wilberforce 's statement in Tameside , that the decision-maker should properly direct himself to the facts , provides a good example of one aspect of factual review which would allow the courts great latitude for substituting their view for that of the decision-maker . |
| 6 | Rex drew himself to the business in hand . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But Christmas over , he reapplied himself to the lute and managed to complete it . |
| 12 | He should confine himself to the questions put to him . |
| 13 | Right at the last minute , as the cameras were due to roll , the director spotted that Beesley had managed to insinuate himself to the ship 's rail ; picking up his megaphone , he instructed the amateur imposter kindly to disembark . |
| 14 | He had almost resigned himself to the fact that this cop was too cautious to be caught out like the one he had almost jumped five nights previously , when without warning the man below stepped out from the shelter of the deep doorway . |
| 15 | During this period he was active in public service in Wales , and devoted himself to the development of scouting , and became a friend of Sir Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of the Boy Scout movement . |
| 16 | He devoted himself to the poor of Leicester . |
| 17 | ‘ He simply devoted himself to the sport and was never in any doubt about what he wanted to be , ’ adds Sid . |
| 18 | For almost twenty years Stutchbury devoted himself to the museum . |
| 19 | Barnard inherited a large fortune from his father : over a period of fifty years he devoted himself to the formation of a collection of prints , drawings , and paintings , becoming one of the foremost connoisseurs of his day . |
| 20 | To and fro from Sydney to Parramatta he devoted himself to the spiritual and physical welfare of the convicts . |
| 21 | Reverend Wulwick dedicated himself to the children 's needs : |
| 22 | But the worst of all was to read what she had finally written on the night before the bazaar , the night before he had added himself to the list of those who had betrayed her — It was the worst hurt of his life . |
| 23 | He propelled himself to the ledge with minimal protection — being too knackered to stop and place anything better — and arrived in a sweating heap , to the knowing grins of the rockstars . |
| 24 | Stating that Mr McNeill ‘ apologises without reservation for the offence caused by his remarks ’ , Mr Pignatelli said his deputy would further explain himself to the council 's advisory group on racial equality and the Strathclyde Community Relations Council on Thursday . |
| 25 | To explain the-timidity of these people , we need look no further than the example of Arthur Jensen , who , after devoting himself to the study of educationally significant individual differences , is declared by the press to be an advocate of segregated schooling for ‘ poor and black children ’ . |
| 26 | Ymor 's ravens were notoriously loyal to their master , to the extent that Withel 's one attempt to promote himself to the rank of greatest thief in Ankh-Morpork had cost their master 's right hand man his left eye . |
| 27 | Jackson lowered himself to the ground . |
| 28 | Walking to the far end of the cells passage , he lowered himself to the floor until he was sitting with his back to the wall facing the door with its broken lock hanging askew . |
| 29 | He sighed and lowered himself to the other end of the settee . |
| 30 | Occasionally in the pursuit of profit he has to sacrifice himself to the ordeal of a business lunch with a customer , supplier or business contact . |