Example sentences of "[vb past] himself to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He downed one tankard and , when the friar nodded , helped himself to the second . |
| 2 | ‘ So he went down , ’ said Frome , as if puzzling it out , ‘ and he helped himself to the headmaster 's sherry . ’ |
| 3 | Uncle Philip broke the armour off a pink battalion of shrimps and ate them steadily , chewed through a loaf of bread spread with half a pound of butter and helped himself to the lion 's share of the cake while gazing at her with expressionless satisfaction , apparently deriving a certain pleasure from her discomfort , or even finding that the sight of it improved his appetite . |
| 4 | Rex drew himself to the business in hand . |
| 5 | But Christmas over , he reapplied himself to the lute and managed to complete it . |
| 6 | For almost twenty years Stutchbury devoted himself to the museum . |
| 7 | During this period he was active in public service in Wales , and devoted himself to the development of scouting , and became a friend of Sir Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of the Boy Scout movement . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ He simply devoted himself to the sport and was never in any doubt about what he wanted to be , ’ adds Sid . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Jackson lowered himself to the ground . |
| 13 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 14 | This The Waste Land did , but when Eliot writes elsewhere that any modern poet who applied himself to the drama would be an extremely conscious poet , using the historical imagination , it is clear that around the time of The Waste Land he was also considering writing plays . |
| 15 | Confident that there was enough evidence to support the move , Branson now appointed himself to the board as an ‘ A ’ director , giving the Virgin Group a three to two majority over Fields . |
| 16 | He summoned all the archbishops and bishops who were with him in Sicily and flung himself to the ground at their feet . |
| 17 | Bodie flung himself to the window-sill , leaning hard up against the plate glass and searching to right and left of the playground . |
| 18 | He believed the Lord could and would save him , and he committed himself to the Lord and trusted him to save him . |
| 19 | Jesus compared himself to the bridegroom . |
| 20 | Mr Souness , who will be 39 in May , drove himself to the hospital just after midday in his £73,000 Mercedes 500 SL coupe , accompanied by his girlfriend , Karen Levy , 32 , a former actress and television show hostess . |
| 21 | The boy looked up at the plane , then threw himself to the ground . |
| 22 | Following through in a single smooth action , Manville threw himself to the ground and rolled out of the doorway on to the sidewalk . |
| 23 | ‘ Love — ’ Fosdyke adjusted himself to the change of subject . |
| 24 | Pogodin addressed himself to the spectre of peasant unrest in April and May 1855 and called upon the government to allow freedom of expression . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | My neighbour , poxy-face , addressed himself to the fascist . |
| 28 | The umbrella-holder had understood the nature of his task and positioned himself to the left of the other , holding the umbrella to parry the rain which was beginning to fall with increasing severity . |
| 29 | Firmly , however , he regrouped and readdressed himself to the task . |
| 30 | 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 . |