Example sentences of "himself [adj] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Cash is a former champion , he is no longer willing to commit himself full-time to the game . |
| 2 | They alighted on Saddam Hussein of Iraq , who in the late 1970s was beginning to portray himself as a man of moderation who might be able to make himself useful to the West , not least by acting as a counter to now-revolutionary Iran . |
| 3 | By running for deputy , he has left himself open to the accusation that he has no hope of becoming leader . |
| 4 | But , unlike Locke , Parker omitted to account for this self-evidence , and so laid himself open to the objection of James Lowde , a defender of innateness , that such truths would not have been self-evident were they not innate . |
| 5 | He pulled it off and threw it behind him , revealing himself naked to the waist . |
| 6 | He made himself agreeable to the earl 's squires in the stableyard , and kept his ears open for any revealing mentions of Robert Bossu 's tastes , temperament and interests , and what he garnered was encouraging . |