Example sentences of "[vb -s] himself to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The protagonist Oliveira refuses to submit to the accepted norms and , instead , surrenders himself to the irrational , seeking to live on a more authentic and vital dimension which appears absurd by conventional standards . |
| 2 | While John the Divine describes himself to the seven churches in Asia as your partner in patiently enduring the suffering that comes to those who belong to his Kingdom ’ ( Rev. 1:9 ) . |
| 3 | He ingratiates himself to the hapless couple , putting them completely at ease . |
| 4 | In the case of surveys there will always be some form of pilot survey before the researcher commits himself to the main fieldwork itself , and the more planning there is done beforehand , the less wasted time there will be in the fieldwork proper , and the easier will be the next stage , which is the analysis of the data collected . |
| 5 | Here , endears himself to the working scientist who tires of the seemingly endless efforts by historians to dig up some obscure individual who ‘ did it first ’ . |
| 6 | And Des Esseintes , the aristocrat recluse in Huysmans Against Nature , who dedicates himself to the diligent pursuit of ever more rarefied and unnatural means of stimulating the senses . |
| 7 | Salim 's outlook incorporates a version of that of his friend Indar , who teaches in the polytechnic for a while , and lends himself to the philanthropic white-liberal cultivation of the African experience , where some of the best comedy in the book is located . |