Example sentences of "himself [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
| 2 | Tom himself said it was because he had to work hard at school at subjects other than music , he could not devote himself wholeheartedly to the flute . |
| 3 | Pennethorne protested that since 1845 , he had devoted himself entirely to the Office 's work and now found that he had lost all his work . |
| 4 | Emile Durkheim ( 1959–1917 ) addressed himself directly to the question of punishment to a much greater extent than either Marx or Weber ever did . |
| 5 | This surrender was legitimized only if the monarch devoted himself unsparingly to the good of the state and his subjects . |
| 6 | ‘ As the intention of the Society is to form Veterinary Physicians and Surgeons intended to be dispersed throughout the Kingdom to exercise usefully their art , the Professor will teach the residing pupils only the most important difference between the two medicines — that of the human body , and that of Cattle — he will confine himself strictly to the teaching of the Veterinary Science . ’ |
| 7 | Masklin lowered himself carefully to the floor and crept forward . |
| 8 | Convinced that there were practical solutions to the social evils of his day , he devoted himself particularly to the temperance movement . |
| 9 | The Consul General addressed himself exclusively to the Substitute in slow , accurate Italian , pronounced with his native accent . |
| 10 | Richard Baxter 's view that it was advantageous for a pastor to be celibate in order to give himself fully to the work of the ministry was well known . |
| 11 | It is likely that the church planter will soon want to leave his secular employment to devote himself fully to the work . |
| 12 | He put his pen down , flexed his fingers in a by now automatic reflex , dragged himself across to the window , looked out , and burst into tears . |
| 13 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |