Example sentences of "[vb base] himself to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1827 Sewell , in his introductory lecture , said he would not , in his lectures on surgery , confine himself to the horse . |
| 2 | He went into retreat and , says Walton , ‘ had many conflicts with himself , whether he should return to the painted pleasures of a court-life or betake himself to a study of divinity and enter into Sacred Orders , to which his dear mother had often persuaded him ’ . |
| 3 | The eldest , Thomas , was to have ‘ all my books in case he betake himself to the study and practice of physic ’ . |
| 4 | Joseph watched Tran Van Hieu 's father lower himself to the ground with difficulty for the third time . |
| 5 | He would have to dredge up an interest in his least favourite pupils and submit himself to a barrage of child-obsessed monologues from people he barely remembered from the year before . |
| 6 | The ancient method of trial by ordeal demanded that the accused submit himself to the test of fire or of water . |