Example sentences of "[vb past] himself to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To and fro from Sydney to Parramatta he devoted himself to the spiritual and physical welfare of the convicts . |
| 2 | He devoted himself to the poor of Leicester . |
| 3 | He sighed and lowered himself to the other end of the settee . |
| 4 | When Knox became a fellow of King 's in 1909 he inherited the then deceased Headlam 's work on Herodas and applied himself to the fragmentary texts of the Herodas papyri in the British Museum . |
| 5 | But it should be remembered that his was an extremely impassioned and subjective response of a man who had fought in Spain , toured some of the depressed North and committed himself to the increasing intellectual and left-wing policies of the Independent Labour Party . |
| 6 | Here Blake left them , identified himself to the surprised border guards and a few days later was flown to Mosow for a triumphant reunion with the KGB . |
| 7 | The old man swayed gently on his haunches , then , as the boy threw himself to the left , moved effortlessly across , fending off the child with his palms , using the least force possible to achieve his end . |
| 8 | And feeling them , he had stopped swimming , thrown a wordless curse at the sky , then surrendered himself to the black cold beneath the surface of the moat . |
| 9 | Hilton addressed himself to the practical situation of his friend who felt himself torn by the demands of the active life impinging on his desire to pursue contemplation , and helps by showing that these two terms , so often used as opposites to refer to a manner of living , either as a professed religious or as a man of affairs , take their fundamental meaning from different inner conditions . |
| 10 | Haim Maccoby addressed himself to the historical Jesus in Revolution in Judea , as did Geza Vermes in such works as Jesus the Jew . |
| 11 | Joshua Morris submitted himself to the first of the day 's body-searches . |
| 12 | But the accused in London , Ontario , had not , as the judge stated , ‘ offered himself to the general public ’ . |
| 13 | Jim Fleeting , the ebullient manager at a Kilmarnock club hungrier than most for promotion , offered himself to the fraternal elbow of big brother Bobby , the club chairman , and resigned . |
| 14 | Richard Baxter 1615–1691 ) during fourteen years of pastoral ministry at Kidderminster gave himself to the pastoral care of some 800 families . |
| 15 | The following day he introduced himself to the Old Trafford crowd by appearing in playing gear and juggling with the ball before United 's game against the champions Arsenal . |
| 16 | The real story of Koons ' romance with Cicciolina began about three years ago in Milan , when Koons first introduced himself to the Italian porn legend after one of her famed pee-on-the-audience performances . |
| 17 | D'Arcy punched the intercom button and introduced himself to the disembodied Oriental voice at the other end . |
| 18 | In his farewell remarks at Speech Day , the Headmaster confined himself to the past 25 years , comparing 1937 — when there were six Old Stopfordians at Oxford and two at Cambridge — with the present , when there were 22 and 15 respectively . |
| 19 | He resigned himself to the single thought , that he would not see her again . |
| 20 | He resigned himself to the inevitable , and grudgingly muttered , ‘ Proceed with the prosecution . ’ |
| 21 | He dragged himself to the faceless body . |
| 22 | Although born in the very purple of Whiggery , he displayed independence of judgement , and , in spite of his personal admiration for W. E. Gladstone ( tempered by a certain irreverence ) , he attached himself to the radical section of the Liberal Party . |