Example sentences of "he [verb] himself to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the Commons he devoted himself to Indian affairs with an emphasis on finance and on opening the Indian Civil Service to Indians . |
| 3 | He first met Wordsworth in 1795 and corresponded with him thereafter ; meanwhile he dedicated himself to Left-wing political and religious propaganda , writing and lecturing in provincial towns . |
| 4 | He then moved to Sydney , where he confined himself to private practice , designing mainly houses . |
| 5 | He restricts himself to historical studies , and derives an active research network , measured by such parameters as citation , co-citation , trusted assessorship , co-authorship , apprenticeship , and other informal communication methods . |
| 6 | Installed in a town house off the Rue St Honoré and accompanied everywhere in his armoured Mercedes by bodyguards armed with automatic weapons , he endeared himself to French society by throwing the kind of party that went out of style with Caligula while continuing to act as front man for the Syrian heroin cartel that underwrote his brother 's fanatical Alawist regime in Damascus . |
| 7 | Ross Aldridge , the ‘ newcomer ’ policeman , must have been pretty well-briefed by his predecessor , because he restricted himself to friendly off-the-record warnings when the practice occasionally became too obvious . |