Example sentences of "himself [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A practising engineer until the age of forty , Albert Ayme did not throw away his slide-rule and set-square when he decided to devote himself entirely to painting . |
| 2 | Nu was no longer concerned with politics ; he devoted himself entirely to Buddhism . |
| 3 | Her neighbour , after helping himself well to leg of mutton as the vast dish had at last come round to him , said ( confirming her ) , ‘ Our guest of honour is a real femme du monde . ’ |
| 4 | During the past year , he decided to devote himself completely to healing and , almost as if in response , phenomena more powerful than anything before have started to happen . |
| 5 | It was partly because he got a weird buzz out of scaring himself half to death , and partly because he felt it was a kind of exorcism , to convince him he had control over his fears — and the horrors that were waiting for him round the corner of sleep . |