Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] himself to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sighed and lowered himself to the other end of the settee . |
| 2 | He summoned all the archbishops and bishops who were with him in Sicily and flung himself to the ground at their feet . |
| 3 | When such a man came down from Olympus and applied himself to the problems of Africa , his voice was heard . |
| 4 | When Knox became a fellow of King 's in 1909 he inherited the then deceased Headlam 's work on Herodas and applied himself to the fragmentary texts of the Herodas papyri in the British Museum . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But it should be remembered that his was an extremely impassioned and subjective response of a man who had fought in Spain , toured some of the depressed North and committed himself to the increasing intellectual and left-wing policies of the Independent Labour Party . |
| 8 | The umbrella-holder had understood the nature of his task and positioned himself to the left of the other , holding the umbrella to parry the rain which was beginning to fall with increasing severity . |
| 9 | Firmly , however , he regrouped and readdressed himself to the task . |
| 10 | D'Arcy punched the intercom button and introduced himself to the disembodied Oriental voice at the other end . |
| 11 | — Could he have survived the fall and dragged himself to the position where he was found ? — This seemed the most likely explanation . |