Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Despite the shock that he must have felt as he drove to what he expected to be his hangar on the morning after , he has shown himself to a man of warm priorities : ‘ People and their problems are more important than airplanes , ’ he has commented . |
| 3 | His skull was smashed , but he managed to drag himself to the Roebuck ( no longer there ) , where he later died . |
| 4 | He had pushed himself to the limit . |
| 5 | He was a very strong , patient , virile bloke who went on living with an awful woman because he had committed himself to a marriage . |
| 6 | If occasionally he still dreamed of Madeleine , of holding her in his arms , kissing her , he had reconciled himself to the belief that marriage between them could only have ended in disaster . |
| 7 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The reason Gandhi gives for choosing to become a vānaprasthin is that he wanted to devote himself to the service of the community . |
| 10 | Is he entitled to confine himself to the particular matters for which he is retained to advise or was he to consider all the circumstances affecting the underlying data including hypothetical circumstances or risks which attention directed from one and not specifically sought . |