Example sentences of "apply himself to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a youth , he was never an avid record collector and he had no real interest in applying himself to mastering an instrument . |
| 2 | He struggled to match the already competent Dave Fielding , but was soon applying himself to pecuniary areas . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | While planning future political developments on a national level , the Prince also applied himself to being President in a more symbolic sense . |
| 5 | The young Gedge steadfastly applied himself to school work throughout the constant shifts . |
| 6 | Gedge had still not fully applied himself to music and was quite happy to play board games with Solowka rather than the laborious task of writing songs . |
| 7 | When such a man came down from Olympus and applied himself to the problems of Africa , his voice was heard . |
| 8 | George Hurst , the son of a curate , was born in 1800 and was apprenticed to a silk mercer at the age of 13 , at the end of which time he applied himself to an energetic programme of self-improvement and became a schoolteacher . |
| 9 | Baldwin said , ‘ I thank God for your decision , ’ and applied himself to mediating in the coal dispute which continued independently . |
| 10 | He applied himself to his task . |
| 11 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He applied himself to business with intense seriousness of purpose . |
| 14 | Davide began to enjoy his work even less than before ; he applied himself to property transactions . |
| 15 | He could probably clear himself with Mrs Mallory if he really applied himself to it . |
| 16 | It is tempting to explain the startling developments which duly took place in Russian domestic affairs in the second half of the 1850s and the first half of the 1860s by saying that the tsar recognized the extent of the difficulties which confronted him and applied himself to resolving them . |
| 17 | He too , it seemed in his more envious moments , could easily have become an officer and a gentleman , if only his father had been as wealthy as Dysart 's , if only he had applied himself to his studies at Commonweal , if only … . |
| 18 | Such solipsism came to him naturally , but he had applied himself to enhancing it as to an art of self defence . |
| 19 | I hope that he now applies himself to them , because he has not applied himself to the rest of his portfolio . |
| 20 | Then he would be up and about , able to apply himself to unfinished business . |
| 21 | Kaptan was to apply himself to something useful . |
| 22 | He could do nothing , nor could he apply himself to thinking about her case . |
| 23 | The Secretary of State should apply himself to his own evidence . |
| 24 | From the day he got out , he would apply himself to spreading the invisible killer . |
| 25 | Ackroyd 's truest prose occurs when he applies himself to the imitation of ancient and recent writers — a repertoire of others . |
| 26 | I hope that he now applies himself to them , because he has not applied himself to the rest of his portfolio . |