Example sentences of "myself to the " in BNC.
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1 | Dragged myself to the doctor who told me I had to expect such things at my age and prescribed vitamin pills . |
2 | Almost every line of this surprisingly underrated poem is relevant to the subject in hand , but I will limit myself to the following short extract : |
3 | I took this down to the town hall the following day and then set myself to the most urgent task in hand : trying to find another job . |
4 | Two explosions in quick succession made me throw myself to the ground . |
5 | Let me be able to wash and dress myself to the last . |
6 | And by this means , perhaps , by being ambitious or ‘ miriad-minded ’ , I can perhaps address myself to the nature of this foulness : how can a man do such a thing ? |
7 | Following these up , I went into a chemist 's shop , introduced myself to the tall lady assistant and said that I was a friend of her future husband 's brother . |
8 | He added : ‘ I take this opportunity of dedicating myself to the service of my constituents and in any capacity whatsoever to the people of my country . |
9 | ‘ I have ways of getting myself to the kitchens , ’ said the Bookman . |
10 | Having reconciled myself to the situation , I felt I had to make a gift to Leslie of my acceptance . |
11 | While I acclimatised myself to the changes over forty years , I went into my own world , back even further than that first hospital . |
12 | I did enjoy myself , once I had accustomed myself to the way the Yanks danced . |
13 | I devote myself to the modest task of first abstracting from the actual economic policy of the State , which is the resultant of the struggle between two systems of economy , and the corresponding classes , so as to investigate in its pure form the movement towards the optimum of primitive socialist accumulation , to discover the operation of the conflicting tendencies , as far as possible in their pure state , and then try to understand why the resultant in real life proceeds along one particular line and not another . |
14 | Generally , when things fall apart and get desperate I just go out into the garden , anchor myself to the earth . |
15 | In my prime I shifted my weight onto the front foot as the bowler approached the crease , being careful though not to commit myself to the front foot . |
16 | He asked if I was ready to commit myself to the Lord . |
17 | I want to upgrade to a much larger reef tank in the near future , but first should I gain much-needed experience in keeping invertebrates before committing myself to the expense of failure with a large tank ? |
18 | Soon my buttocks were pressing against the ceiling , then the back of my head , and I hauled myself to the edge of the rug to look for a way down before I was crushed . |
19 | For the first time since then I 'm convinced we wo n't win , and start mentally realigning myself to the joys of a hung parliament . |
20 | Seriously , I did offer myself to the Lord , but when the opportunity came , it was quite a shock . |
21 | A fuller description of this can be found in the paperback edition of A Presumption of Innocence , so here I will confine myself to the main points . |
22 | This is a subject to which I shall return , but for the moment I prefer to confine myself to the typical picture and to show where my own circumstances coincided with it or diverged from it . |
23 | ‘ I was desperately waiting for the magic word ‘ Cut ’ so I could attach myself to the wires before falling , ’ he says . |
24 | In the course of the paper I addressed myself to the question : ‘ Why is it that people unhesitatingly talk of feeling hot as well as of feeling the heat of things ? ’ |
25 | At that time Dr. Yeats indicated to Samuel Whitbread that he intended , after having considered the matter for about a year , to ‘ transplant myself to the metropolis and … quit the early scenes of my professional exertions after 15 years in Bedford ’ . |
26 | ‘ When I am in the car I am competing professionally and I commit myself to the job . |
27 | I cry now over accounts of childhood like this , weeping furtively over the reports of nineteenth century commissions of inquiry into child labour , abandoning myself to the luxuriance of grief in libraries , tears staining the pages where Mayhew 's little watercress girl tells her story . |
28 | Someone shouted : " Lie down ! " , and as I threw myself to the ground , I felt a bullet hit me . |
29 | I decided to commit myself to the revolution and in January 1981 , went to the Frente Paracentral , which at that time covered parts of the Departments of Cabanas . |
30 | In arguing this I shall limit myself to the internal characteristics of the National Curriculum . |