Example sentences of "himself to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Henry agreed to help in this way , and to go by himself to the Stapletons that evening . |
| 2 | After certain difficulties with the manager of the Old Vic , who did not want to commit himself to the play on the basis of the bare outline which had been shown to him , Browne approached the theatrical impresario , Henry Sherek , and asked him if he would care to produce the play — with Browne as director — at Edinburgh . |
| 3 | Confident that there was enough evidence to support the move , Branson now appointed himself to the board as an ‘ A ’ director , giving the Virgin Group a three to two majority over Fields . |
| 4 | And as Hotspur turned to face him , in mild but sympathetic surprise : ‘ He can not suppose that allying himself to the duchess of Brittany will either placate or frighten the French . |
| 5 | Having sold himself to the things he loves . |
| 6 | He attached himself to the Sussex magnate Thomas Sackville , then Lord Buckhurst and later lord treasurer and first Earl of Dorset [ q.v. ] , who in 1594 recommended him to act as deputy to John Parker in a Chancery post as ‘ of honest sort and behaviour , of such good knowledge and skill for the discharge of such a place , and withall having so good means and ability to live ’ . |
| 7 | He applied his right eye to the hole and blinked once or twice to accustom himself to the darkness . |
| 8 | He makes it repeatedly clear that he addresses himself to the Greeks who have little knowledge of Roman institutions ; but on the other hand he refers to Roman readers ( 6.5 1 .3–8 ) and is quite obviously looking at them over his shoulder . |
| 9 | Boll would be in the Directors ' dining room , Basil would have gone to see his cronies in A area , Wayne would have gone out with those as young and limited as himself to the Hind 's Head in the village , Carol would be in the canteen wittering with the other Clerical Assistants and her husband . |
| 10 | She was about to say something when he turned away to introduce himself to the girl on his right . |
| 11 | He introduced himself to the committee as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry . |
| 12 | Those who simplify moral judgement to the application of standards would assume that he has either to impose his own code or to accommodate himself to the other . |
| 13 | It was established that individual pathetic character once and forever by tying one end of his pocket handkerchief to a hook on , in the wall and attaching himself to the other to the performance , to , to the performance of this feat however the pocket handkerchief inside had been all he , he only cried bitterly all day and when the longest nights came on he spread his little hand before his eyes to shut out the darkness and crouching in the corner tried to sleep , everyone drawing himself closer and closer to the wall |
| 14 | In his words , he ‘ sold ’ himself to the Norwich City Football Club , persistently going to the training ground when aged 14 and 15 , until the club offered him an apprentice 's contract . |
| 15 | Leeds captain Gary McAllister has pledged himself to the champions . |
| 16 | It was n't , however , until summer had faded that he could at last feel he was his own man again and was able to address himself to the present . |
| 17 | A chance mention in a letter written in the 820s shows that one card in a Carolingian king 's hand was the existence of a " solemn custom " whereby any recipient of a benefice had to come to the palace in person and ritually " commend " himself to the king . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He came into the room with a broad grin on his face and could hardly wait to tell me that not only had he managed to approach several people at work and ask them questions , but that he had decided to put himself to the test over the last few days and had , in fact , gone up to complete strangers in the street to ask them the time . |
| 20 | It seemed like an excellent opportunity to put himself to the test , see if his reflexes were as finely honed as they had been in the old days . |
| 21 | Gossip put nothing of himself to the test but his patience . |
| 22 | The ancient method of trial by ordeal demanded that the accused submit himself to the test of fire or of water . |
| 23 | This being impossible , the next thing to be wished for is that , at every instant , seeing reason to believe as much , and not being able to satisfy himself to the contrary , he should conceive himself to be so " ( emphasis in original ) . |
| 24 | From a sitting position he rubbed and thumped the leg until it responded sufficiently for him to drag himself to the bathroom . |
| 25 | I think there was a driving need in him to push himself to the limits , and there was a purity in the desert and in the Arabs as a race which appealed to him . ’ |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it is likely that he was quick to accommodate himself to the victor and to profit from a new source of patronage . |
| 27 | When such a man came down from Olympus and applied himself to the problems of Africa , his voice was heard . |
| 28 | In fact despite being in what 's described as a small fish tank , the Puffer quickly grew to 12″ and for some reason , would inflate himself to the size of a basketball at 8pm each evening . |
| 29 | Pedro Fernández Dittus was not , however , required to spend time in detention but merely to present himself to the authorities once a week . |
| 30 | Manoon immediately surrendered himself to the authorities and was later charged with , among other crimes , conspiracy to assassinate Queen Sirikit in 1982 . |