Example sentences of "himself to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gombrich 's scholarly work includes many papers on meaning and interpretation in the visual arts , so that the broad but thin scope of his story of art is instructive ; by writing a survey he inevitably limited himself to a narrow range of comment . |
| 2 | ‘ I think your blood runs a bit cold , ’ he said , helping himself to a bit of cruelty . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | He would lend himself to a deluge ; she would imagine water gushing into a basin . |
| 5 | Mr Robert Cole , a CND vice-chairman , was jailed for 14 days at Blaenau Ffestiniog , Gwynned , for refusing to pay a £150 fine imposed after he chained himself to a container of nuclear waste last August .. |
| 6 | At a press conference he committed himself to a big recruitment drive for Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution , and , if necessary , to putting more resources into local authorities in order to make the bill work . |
| 7 | He was a very strong , patient , virile bloke who went on living with an awful woman because he had committed himself to a marriage . |
| 8 | He would treat himself to a seat in the front row . |
| 9 | He would just sprint himself to a standstill in a couple of hundred metres . |
| 10 | Otley made me some hot milk and honey and helped himself to a cheese and pickle sandwich and a mug of strong coffee . |
| 11 | He strolled towards the table and helped himself to a biscuit off Ari 's plate . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mr Yeltsin had planned to leave that to Mr Yegor Gaidar , the architect of the reform programme , and to restrict himself to a general state-of-the-nation address . |
| 14 | Outside , in another crush of party faithful , Mr Major restricted himself to a standabout . |
| 15 | Tomkinson had a previous conviction for exposing himself to a woman in 1985 and was given probation in 1990 for assault . |
| 16 | NOW we have sent the Calibans grimacing and snarling back to their caves for a further spell , perhaps nice Mr Major will address himself to a problem with which we did not like to trouble him during the election . |
| 17 | Both types of books , the Maigrets and the one-off crime novels , rely on simple language — Simenon famously restricted himself to a vocabulary of 2,000 words — and a length of around 150 pages . |
| 18 | For the moment he therefore confined himself to a tour of the streets , even though popular clamour made it clear what was wanted , for few cried ‘ Vive la République ’ . |
| 19 | Professor Moravcsik is addressing himself to a vast audience , from high school students to politically responsible adults . |
| 20 | He never earned a degree , but an allowance from his mother gave him the financial independence to devote himself to a career as writer . |
| 21 | Anyone who was prepared to submit himself to a debtors ' prison for a token period could apply from The Fleet or the Marshalsea for the help of the Insolvent Debtors Court . |
| 22 | The story begins on a May morning in 1991 , when Brian Mattison awoke early to see a heron helping himself to a fish breakfast . |
| 23 | How Dustin would have managed to submit himself to a real auteur like Bergman must remain a matter for conjecture . |
| 24 | McQueen is happiest in the action sequences such as the exciting ‘ Great Escape ’ from the prison during a concert of French ballet music , and his subsequent flight through the jungle , surviving snakes , crocodiles , Indian blowpipes , and a leper colony until he gets himself to a nunnery and is betrayed by the Mother Superior . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Above all , however deeply he commits himself to a long-term end , it must never be allowed to outweigh ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In September 1990 the respondent appeared with his new employer at the wholesale locksmith 's , and during the sales assistant 's brief absence the respondent helped himself to a key-cutting machine from stock . |
| 30 | In a sullen silence he lit a cigar and helped himself to a stiff measure of brandy . |