Example sentences of "[verb] himself to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In choosing a kasabat kadilik , then , a student was in effect shutting himself off from the high offices of state and , provided that he intended to stay within the learned profession , dooming himself to a lifetime of service in the kasabat kadiliks unless he could somehow get back into the medrese stream . |
| 2 | Anchoring himself to a piton , he cut the climbing rope and started to unravel its strands , working with the nearly frozen fingers of one hand . |
| 3 | JH : When launching , say , into Beethoven 's Op. 2 No. 3 C major Sonata ( for example ) , do you still find yourself thinking very much of ‘ Beethoven the young lion ’ announcing himself to the world ? |
| 4 | Morris helped himself to a couple of lungfuls of cigarette smoke . |
| 5 | He strolled towards the table and helped himself to a biscuit off Ari 's plate . |
| 6 | But Evans merely grinned and helped himself to a stool from under a neighbouring table . |
| 7 | Jake smiled , quite unperturbed by her sarcasm , and helped himself to a shortbread biscuit . |
| 8 | Otley made me some hot milk and honey and helped himself to a cheese and pickle sandwich and a mug of strong coffee . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's not enjoyment , it 's ecstasy , ’ he replied , and helped himself to a glass of champagne from the tray of a passing waiter . |
| 10 | He helped himself to a glass of mango juice before he replied . |
| 11 | –Full-back Gary Culling , who excels in getting into scoring positions , also helped himself to a brace in the 45th and 61st minutes . |
| 12 | Lee Chapman helped himself to a hat-trick in that 6-1 victory but the onslaught really stemmed from Wednesday 's failure to cut out Dorigo 's overlapping runs . |
| 13 | Vitor helped himself to a slice of gammon . |
| 14 | He downed one tankard and , when the friar nodded , helped himself to the second . |
| 15 | ‘ So he went down , ’ said Frome , as if puzzling it out , ‘ and he helped himself to the headmaster 's sherry . ’ |
| 16 | Uncle Philip broke the armour off a pink battalion of shrimps and ate them steadily , chewed through a loaf of bread spread with half a pound of butter and helped himself to the lion 's share of the cake while gazing at her with expressionless satisfaction , apparently deriving a certain pleasure from her discomfort , or even finding that the sight of it improved his appetite . |
| 17 | Rex drew himself to the business in hand . |
| 18 | He was a very strong , patient , virile bloke who went on living with an awful woman because he had committed himself to a marriage . |
| 19 | His final decision is in favour of whichever proves stronger , but the stronger for perhaps no more than the brief spell of fullest awareness in which he decides , afterwards to be panic-stricken at having committed himself to a choice which none the less he still knows in his heart was right . |
| 20 | Despite the fact that he had not committed himself to the rising until the last moment , he was quickly consolidating the initiative he had taken in Morocco and was emerging as its sole leader . |
| 21 | But Christmas over , he reapplied himself to the lute and managed to complete it . |
| 22 | He plans to stay in Sheffield to compete on the first day of the UK Championships today then concentrate on training , his Olympic place assured without having to jump in the trials in Birmingham on June 27–28 , in which he 'll confine himself to an outing in the 100 metres . |
| 23 | Being able to look back , by means of regression , and discover that their condition has a logical and rational cause , takes away that feeling of stupidity and prevents the patient condemning himself to a lifetime of inevitable failure . |
| 24 | Right at the last minute , as the cameras were due to roll , the director spotted that Beesley had managed to insinuate himself to the ship 's rail ; picking up his megaphone , he instructed the amateur imposter kindly to disembark . |
| 25 | He had almost resigned himself to the fact that this cop was too cautious to be caught out like the one he had almost jumped five nights previously , when without warning the man below stepped out from the shelter of the deep doorway . |
| 26 | For almost twenty years Stutchbury devoted himself to the museum . |
| 27 | During this period he was active in public service in Wales , and devoted himself to the development of scouting , and became a friend of Sir Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of the Boy Scout movement . |
| 28 | Barnard inherited a large fortune from his father : over a period of fifty years he devoted himself to the formation of a collection of prints , drawings , and paintings , becoming one of the foremost connoisseurs of his day . |
| 29 | ‘ He simply devoted himself to the sport and was never in any doubt about what he wanted to be , ’ adds Sid . |
| 30 | 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 . |