Example sentences of "himself to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Since winning the super-heavyweight gold at last year 's Olympics , the London-born but Canadian-raised fighter has shown himself to be anything but another pugilistic stereotype . |
| 32 | The victory ended a run of three successive defeats , and Shell showed himself to be a relatively undemonstrative head coach prepared to listen to the advice of his assistant coaches and players before calling the big plays . |
| 33 | The point is that Knighton , for all the ludicrous exhibitionism with which he announced himself to the Stretford End , decided to withdraw , despite evidence that he could indeed finance the original deal . |
| 34 | Wattana first came in contact with the Davises and Jimmy Whites of the snooker world when he was 16 , the year that a Chester club owner , Harry Wau , was on holiday in Bangkok and introduced himself to local snooker officials . |
| 35 | Following Chin 's accidental death in 1960 , it was not until 1972 that he was able to reduce and finally to leave cardiac work ; and from then until his retirement in June 1987 he devoted himself to chest surgery at Southampton , Basingstoke and King Edward VII Hospital , Midhurst . |
| 36 | As the Doctrine Commission puts it , ‘ He exposes Himself to being acted upon and , in that sense , being compelled to change . ’ |
| 37 | Thanks be to God for being what He is , for showing Himself to me … |
| 38 | In this welter , such deliberate pressures as the responsible minister may himself exert are included and absorbed ; but the less he purports or believes himself to be determining the outcome , the better . |
| 39 | In 1919 Eliot felt himself to be in a similar position . |
| 40 | This The Waste Land did , but when Eliot writes elsewhere that any modern poet who applied himself to the drama would be an extremely conscious poet , using the historical imagination , it is clear that around the time of The Waste Land he was also considering writing plays . |
| 41 | In 1964 Mr Wilson presented himself as a radical figure , but by 1974 he was comparing himself to a family doctor , and hoped , in his own words , ‘ to achieve … peace and quiet for the country ’ . |
| 42 | He restricts himself to an account of the ground forces , so there is no coverage of the role played by the South African air force , for instance , and perhaps the distinction drawn by Britain at the outset of the war between the old Dominions and the members of the new Commonwealth which it regarded as a security risk could have been more strongly emphasized . |
| 43 | In 1990 it is not clear whether in late 1987 Julius Nyerere 's decision to renew his term as party chairman in Tanzania is compatible with a smooth transition of power from himself to President Mwinyi or to anyone else . |
| 44 | He sat for more than an hour alone before dragging himself to the room , shutting the doors loudly behind him as he went . |
| 45 | Neither Marx nor Engels considered himself to be historian or anthropologist . |
| 46 | Julian Bailey , despite failing to qualify his Lotus 102B at Phoenix , is understood to be prepared to commit himself to Lotus for the entire season — if Martin Donnelly is n't fit enough to race — backed by a personal investment of up to £75,000 , earned during two years with the Group C Nissan team . |
| 47 | Then he eased himself to his feet and scrambled back to Wexford . |
| 48 | He addressed himself to Bodo . |
| 49 | He helped himself to another brandy and waved the bottle before Herr Nordern 's eyes . |
| 50 | With less alacrity he allowed himself to be guided across the other lane of the avenue , on to the safety of the pavement , and to an oddly impressive square , framed by the Catholic Cathedral , the Opera House , and the old Royal Library . |
| 51 | To Warnie , he had written a letter fall of the gravest admonitions , designed to make him think carefully about what he was committing himself to . |
| 52 | Part of Lewis 's discovery of himself as a writer was the discovery of a means of presenting himself to the reader . |
| 53 | While Sir Lewis declared himself to be reasonably happy with the way the group 's three hotels were being used , he admitted that the 100-acre-plus ski resort was suffering from a glaring lack of investment , and poor road communications . |
| 54 | Again , three or four times a week he would push himself to the limit , galloping across the countryside with the hounds , risking life and limb in another of the most physically exacting sports known to man . |
| 55 | Charles had pushed himself to the limit in the armed forces and had insisted upon doing the full training that his fellow officers did — despite protests from his superiors . |
| 56 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 57 | Grief was the climate in which he worked and he had inured himself to it . |
| 58 | He watched their departure through a spreading mist , and when the last car had gone and the avenue was silent except for the long sigh of grass , he allowed himself to be taken back to his room . |
| 59 | He laid aside his paper and allowed himself to be lulled into a rhythmical vacuity by the swaying of the ambulance . |
| 60 | Up the Empire ! ’ to a group of communist students from the UK gathered at the bar of his hotel , promises to do something about the ‘ blooming awful ’ state of Soviet plumbing and ends up making a deal with Stalin with the insouciance of George Formby addressing himself to Hitler . |