Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been just past Luke when he had caught at her , and now his arms came round her from behind , drawing her back against him , and the response she dreaded was already weakening her as the warmth of him transmitted itself to her . |
| 2 | He said that he took to writing novels to support himself and his family and to enable him to devote himself to his religious writings and poems . |
| 3 | I think there was a driving need in him to push himself to the limits , and there was a purity in the desert and in the Arabs as a race which appealed to him . ’ |
| 4 | From a sitting position he rubbed and thumped the leg until it responded sufficiently for him to drag himself to the bathroom . |
| 5 | He lowered himself to his knees , and , sniffing hungrily , richly … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He sold himself to a local pig farmer . |
| 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 | He applied himself to his task . |
| 10 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 11 | He applied himself to business with intense seriousness of purpose . |
| 12 | Davide began to enjoy his work even less than before ; he applied himself to property transactions . |
| 13 | The point is that Knighton , for all the ludicrous exhibitionism with which he announced himself to the Stretford End , decided to withdraw , despite evidence that he could indeed finance the original deal . |
| 14 | The next day he admitted himself to hospital . |
| 15 | When the shot was first used editorially , illustrating a story on alcoholism , the man wrote a furious letter to Doisneau 's agency , Rapho , in which he revealed himself to be a respected professor at the Sorbonne . |
| 16 | He disciplines himself to at least two hours a day in his upstairs studio where he also produces screen printing , water colours and acrylics . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As the Doctrine Commission puts it , ‘ He exposes Himself to being acted upon and , in that sense , being compelled to change . ’ |
| 19 | He manifests himself to each of us uniquely . ’ |
| 20 | Following Chin 's accidental death in 1960 , it was not until 1972 that he was able to reduce and finally to leave cardiac work ; and from then until his retirement in June 1987 he devoted himself to chest surgery at Southampton , Basingstoke and King Edward VII Hospital , Midhurst . |
| 21 | He retired from the Army in 1948 and returned once more to his estate at Bishopton , where he devoted himself to farm improvements . |
| 22 | From then on he devoted himself to buying , selling and exhibiting horses , travelling the length and breadth of Britain in his quest for outstanding stock . |
| 23 | Being now unfit to work , he was left to spend his time as he pleased , and he devoted himself to reading , selling scraps of old iron and painting children 's books and shop labels to raise the few pence needed to buy the books . |
| 24 | His undoubted talents never blossomed in public life , and he devoted himself to an immense rebuilding and renovation programme at Chatsworth House , Derbyshire , where he loved to spend many hours in the library . |
| 25 | Between 1925 and 1929 he devoted himself to his regenerative projects . |
| 26 | He devoted himself to the poor of Leicester . |
| 27 | In the Commons he devoted himself to Indian affairs with an emphasis on finance and on opening the Indian Civil Service to Indians . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | To and fro from Sydney to Parramatta he devoted himself to the spiritual and physical welfare of the convicts . |
| 30 | This is virtually Nithard 's last word ; and he offers an explanation of Adalard 's power : " Caring little for the public good , he devoted himself to pleasing everyone . |