Example sentences of "myself to the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fail to see why I should subject myself to the indignity of competing with Tom , Dick , and Narry for a parish which is , at least , £100 per annum poorer than my own , and not nearly so convenient . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ I take this opportunity of dedicating myself to the service of my constituents and in any capacity whatsoever to the people of my country . |
| 3 | It is a consideration which I should have applied myself to the assessment of general damages to favour this plaintiff . |
| 4 | Soon my buttocks were pressing against the ceiling , then the back of my head , and I hauled myself to the edge of the rug to look for a way down before I was crushed . |
| 5 | I cry now over accounts of childhood like this , weeping furtively over the reports of nineteenth century commissions of inquiry into child labour , abandoning myself to the luxuriance of grief in libraries , tears staining the pages where Mayhew 's little watercress girl tells her story . |
| 6 | I hauled myself to the top of the wall , looking back as I prepared to jump . |
| 7 | In this free and easy style , I accustomed myself to the rhythms of school life . |
| 8 | For the first time since then I 'm convinced we wo n't win , and start mentally realigning myself to the joys of a hung parliament . |
| 9 | However , at this moment I am addressing myself to the question of motive . |
| 10 | Others , however , felt a similar shudder at the thought of telling and discussing the political jokes about contemporary leaders of the modern Arab World and advised me to confine myself to the days of the Prophet and the early imams . |
| 11 | And [ wa ] others felt a similar shock at my intention to talk about political jokes relating to contemporary leaders of the modern Arab World and suggested that I should confine myself to the days of the Prophet and the early imams . |
| 12 | In Chapters 5–8 I address myself to the topic of experiences from a phenomenological point of view . |
| 13 | I want to upgrade to a much larger reef tank in the near future , but first should I gain much-needed experience in keeping invertebrates before committing myself to the expense of failure with a large tank ? |
| 14 | ‘ I have cantered among the hyenas of the Serengeti as they brought down wildebeest ; I have danced the Wellington Boot Dance with the Zulu in the township hostels ; I have tiptoed through the Bibliothèque Nationale , listening to the gummy gumming of mundane scholars ; I have shelled prawns with slant-eyed androgynes in the polyglot souks of the uttermost East ; I have reached the nadir of a nonsensical number of psycho-sexual trances , both in the Amazonian hinterland and the plastic cultures of the Pacific rim ; I have subsumed myself to the circuitry of artificial cerebella in the silicone wadis ; I have crawled down the barrels of guns on all five continents , only to spring forth again — triumphant ; I have tittered in the stalls and tottered by the walls festooned with epicene opera-lovers ; I have sallied forth into the salons of the old world and the new ; I have hefted steins in the beerhalls and pinched flutes in the Shires ; I have raced laggardly protons around the cyclotron , revelling in the sempiternal sciamachy ; and — let us not forget — I have also hidden under couches whilst the moneyed pulers petted their kittenish neuroses , imagining themselves trusted , secluded . |
| 15 | ‘ One day , if I write my memoirs — the only thing I shall write well , if ever I put myself to the task of doing it — you will find a place in them , and what a place ! |
| 16 | I keep silent and simply apply myself to the task of closing the fridge door . |
| 17 | And by this means , perhaps , by being ambitious or ‘ miriad-minded ’ , I can perhaps address myself to the nature of this foulness : how can a man do such a thing ? |
| 18 | I borrowed a ballpoint from the uniform at the front desk and did the honest thing with my address , consigning myself to the bowels of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre 's billion-shilling brain down in Wild West Wales . |
| 19 | I was absolutely determined not to expose myself to the sort of pain that love can bring . ’ |