Example sentences of "[verb] himself to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He left the sentence hanging as he helped himself to more rum . |
| 2 | He helped himself to another brandy and waved the bottle before Herr Nordern 's eyes . |
| 3 | The Brigadier seemed to be thinking furiously as he helped himself to another glass of port . |
| 4 | Today when the four younger boys left for school , Jack helped himself to another cup of tea . |
| 5 | He had already committed himself to more work than he could handle because he was inexperienced at making deals and having to turn down work . |
| 6 | As a general rule Green in his Guide recommends the skies be a quarter blue and three quarters grey , and he holds himself to this idea most strictly . |
| 7 | In 1877 his father had heard the American evangelist D. L. Moody in London , and had sold his racehorses and devoted himself to personal evangelism . |
| 8 | It was completed a few months after its companion piece ( the G major Quartet Op. 106 and subsequently the composer devoted himself to programmatic tone poems and operas . |
| 9 | During the Second World War |
| 10 | For the greater part of the 1830s and 1840s Nicholas I dedicated himself to international peace . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , he was making friends of working men and trade unionists , and devoting himself to educational work . |
| 12 | Nor did Boswell the North Briton confine himself to political toadying to London , as he swung from compliments to conveyed slights : ‘ [ Mr Boyd ] entertained us with great civility . |
| 13 | Otherwise ( the point is surely an obvious one ) he would have limited himself to verbal argument . |
| 14 | Grant flung himself to one side … but this time he was just a split second too late . |
| 15 | Ross grinned back at her as he leaned forward , helping himself to another slice of chocolate cake . |
| 16 | We should regard Want , Disease , Ignorance and Squalor as common enemies of all of us , not as enemies with whom each individual may seek a separate peace , escaping himself to personal prosperity while leaving his fellows in their clutches . |
| 17 | Desperately Moore threw himself to one side , and saw the rope fall harmlessly to the floor . |
| 18 | And he 'd probably have to resign himself to that situation until he returned to Winchester . |
| 19 | Then he would be up and about , able to apply himself to unfinished business . |
| 20 | At this momentous hour His Excellency the Governor of Burma is to dedicate himself to Almighty God for the task with which he has been entrusted . |
| 21 | As he adapted himself to this reputation , Deems indeed grew subtle in his affairs , until man and reputation became one . |
| 22 | He then launched into one of his ruminative orations , reflecting on the evolution of our relations with India , hardly engaging with the Government at all , but indirectly committing himself to full support for the movement towards self-government . |
| 23 | What Karlsson proposes essentially is that the genes responsible for the disposition to schizophrenia ( he confines himself to this form of psychosis ) also code for creative ability . |
| 24 | ‘ Like Bogart , Steve brought himself to each part he played and something of each of them rubbed off on his personality . |
| 25 | We think , therefore , that it is absolutely necessary in order to carry on the Business of this Establishment , as perfectly as possible , that two such Characters should be appointed — and we , in consequence suggest , that altho ’ each be as much as possible qualified in both Departments , yet if one were to devote himself to one Branch and the other to the other branch — the College would be much more usefully directed — for , if one Professor were fully qualified for both — yet so arduous a task could not possibly be executed by one Man only . |
| 26 | A judge of an inferior court , in order to entitle himself to this immunity , must , however , show that in reality , or at any rate upon the facts disclosed to him , he had jurisdiction in the matter in question . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He could perhaps have submitted himself to some army medical board , but whether they would have enthused over the application of a 48-year-old epileptic syphilitic with no military experience except that acquired while shooting wild-life in the desert |
| 29 | He then moved to Sydney , where he confined himself to private practice , designing mainly houses . |
| 30 | But he did not wait for a reply before throwing himself to one side as a sabre whistled down and buried itself deep in the brickwork of the window sill where he had been sitting . |