Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pn reflx] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is virtually Nithard 's last word ; and he offers an explanation of Adalard 's power : " Caring little for the public good , he devoted himself to pleasing everyone . |
| 2 | In the Commons he devoted himself to Indian affairs with an emphasis on finance and on opening the Indian Civil Service to Indians . |
| 3 | ( And rather shocked that he helped himself to two of Helmut 's silk scarves . |
| 4 | He helped himself to some more wine . |
| 5 | He helped himself to some more lamb tikka masala . |
| 6 | He helped himself to another brandy and waved the bottle before Herr Nordern 's eyes . |
| 7 | The Brigadier seemed to be thinking furiously as he helped himself to another glass of port . |
| 8 | He left the sentence hanging as he helped himself to more rum . |
| 9 | He first met Wordsworth in 1795 and corresponded with him thereafter ; meanwhile he dedicated himself to Left-wing political and religious propaganda , writing and lecturing in provincial towns . |
| 10 | But Frederick Bissett detested walking , and because his Sara 's car was in the garage , and his own car sat outside overnight , he condemned himself to five minutes of scraping the ice from the windscreen and the back window and to revving the engine , blowing grey fumes away down Lilac Gardens . |
| 11 | I caught up with Dr Mawhinney at Deacon 's School , a local comprehensive , where he subjected himself to 45 minutes of questioning from 60 youngsters as part of an in-school mock election . |
| 12 | As he adapted himself to this reputation , Deems indeed grew subtle in his affairs , until man and reputation became one . |
| 13 | He then moved to Sydney , where he confined himself to private practice , designing mainly houses . |
| 14 | He introduced himself to all the furniture , saying how nice it was to meet a particular table , or how nice the covering was on a chair . |
| 15 | Installed in a town house off the Rue St Honoré and accompanied everywhere in his armoured Mercedes by bodyguards armed with automatic weapons , he endeared himself to French society by throwing the kind of party that went out of style with Caligula while continuing to act as front man for the Syrian heroin cartel that underwrote his brother 's fanatical Alawist regime in Damascus . |
| 16 | Ross Aldridge , the ‘ newcomer ’ policeman , must have been pretty well-briefed by his predecessor , because he restricted himself to friendly off-the-record warnings when the practice occasionally became too obvious . |