Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] himself to the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Once man has habituated himself to the world of emotions which is a form of the transcendent , it is possible for him to cross into it at will . |
| 4 | The observer has to submit himself to the way things are . |
| 5 | He 's a good motivator , has endeared himself to the players and if they 're on your side as a manager you 've got at least a fighting chance . |
| 6 | Leeds captain Gary McAllister has pledged himself to the champions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This type will grow into a defiant adult seeking to prove himself to the world . |
| 9 | He had decided to show himself to the crowd , and take the plunge into the humiliation that was awaiting him . |
| 10 | Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated . |
| 11 | He immediately began to help himself to the food . |
| 12 | He may not be able to call upon the driver who took over the car to support his defence and to help him discharge the balance of probabilities in his favour , because that driver would not want to expose himself to the criminal charges of aggravated car theft . |
| 13 | Having sold himself to the things he loves . |
| 14 | Fielding maintained that Lorne was all fucked out " , having gorged himself to the point of decrepitude during his first decade at the top , a common enough syndrome in the movie business . |
| 15 | What remained of the morning was to be spent acclimatising himself to the deaf-aid receiver and learning how to pace himself with the A.S.M. who was going to feed the lines . |
| 16 | His skull was smashed , but he managed to drag himself to the Roebuck ( no longer there ) , where he later died . |
| 17 | In the run-up to the elections Fujimori sought to present himself to the public as the defender of democracy , claiming that opposition politicians had been behind a coup attempt on Nov. 13 aimed at preventing the CCD elections from taking place and restoring the 1979 Constitution . |
| 18 | On reaching Arcady , he 'd attempted to call Zambia 's old apartment and had explained himself to the woman who now lived there . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He had pushed himself to the limit . |
| 22 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 23 | The father jumped out of his car and began to run to where his son had thrown himself to the ground . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Ken had mortgaged himself to the hilt with the flat in Brunswick Gardens , Kensington and after one interminable row following another , he told his parents to leave the flat . |
| 26 | Scrope relied almost exclusively on George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , but consequently had to adapt himself to the tergiversations of the latter 's policies . |
| 27 | On one occassion he had made a huge crossbow , hoping to throw himself to the mainland , but the elastic snapped , sending him backwards into the school and he had spent two weeks finding his way out . |
| 28 | It was nothing to do with me if the porter wished to bring himself to the notice of Shaitan . |
| 29 | The tone of the article was that Charman was getting out because he did not want to commit himself to the group on a full-time basis . |
| 30 | 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 . |