Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] himself to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a sitting position he rubbed and thumped the leg until it responded sufficiently for him to drag himself to the bathroom . |
| 2 | Walking to the far end of the cells passage , he lowered himself to the floor until he was sitting with his back to the wall facing the door with its broken lock hanging askew . |
| 3 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 4 | He propelled himself to the ledge with minimal protection — being too knackered to stop and place anything better — and arrived in a sweating heap , to the knowing grins of the rockstars . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ So he went down , ’ said Frome , as if puzzling it out , ‘ and he helped himself to the headmaster 's sherry . ’ |
| 7 | But Christmas over , he reapplied himself to the lute and managed to complete it . |
| 8 | He believed the Lord could and would save him , and he committed himself to the Lord and trusted him to save him . |
| 9 | At lunch-time he addressed himself to the kitchen cupboards and the refrigerator and was touched , though not surprised , at how spartan was the fare that Pooley allowed himself . |
| 10 | More than any other wartime figure he addressed himself to the conscience of middle-class radicalism , arguing that the only worthwhile victory possible was one based on the common ownership of the means of production and a moral revolution in which selfishness and the profit motive would give way to an ethic of service to the community . |
| 11 | Ackroyd 's truest prose occurs when he applies himself to the imitation of ancient and recent writers — a repertoire of others . |
| 12 | The eldest , Thomas , was to have ‘ all my books in case he betake himself to the study and practice of physic ’ . |
| 13 | He took himself to the call-box in his lodgings night after night , but whether he was sloshed or sober there was no way of finding the nerve to dial . |
| 14 | There he brought himself to the notice of George Clifford , the wealthy Amsterdam banker and horticulturist ( see p. 50 ) , who had engaged young Linnaeus as his personal physician and as recorder of his garden plants . |
| 15 | Mr Richardson said : ‘ His mother tried to bar him from using the telephone but he connected himself to the line by running a piece of wire under the carpet and soldering it to the telephone terminal . ’ |
| 16 | v. Wilts U.D. , but he addresses himself to the question and uses his intelligence . |
| 17 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 18 | The gusto with which he designed these posters shows how whole-heartedly he gave himself to the task in hand . |
| 19 | He introduced himself to the committee as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry . |
| 20 | During this time he introduced himself to the Governor of New South Wales , who received me most kindly and offered me every assistance ’ , and paid his respects to Captain Philip Parker King , who had commanded his expedition with Lady Franklin to Recherche Bay the previous December , and who was now resident in Sydney as Port Officer and Superintendent of Government Vessels . |
| 21 | He had fixed his star on the great Shakespearian roles — that , in his professional life , was what he lived by , that was how he tested himself to the limit . |
| 22 | Will he address himself to the fact that no less than 44 per cent . |
| 23 | The country rolled endlessly beyond his sight , and he abandoned himself to the routine of riding , resting , eating and sleeping . |