Example sentences of "[verb] himself to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grief was the climate in which he worked and he had inured himself to it . |
| 2 | In The Hague with Sien he had given himself over to light , like a Myshkin who was all love , meek as a lamb , becoming the woman 's servant and in this roundabout fashion returning himself to infancy . |
| 3 | It had taken him a long time to adjust himself to this , but now it no longer irritated him , and he felt only pity for his wife . |
| 4 | He found the King 's strength and confidence increasing and he had no doubts about his fitness to rule ; but the King was still anxious for time in which to adjust himself to his new station and duties . |
| 5 | In choosing a kasabat kadilik , then , a student was in effect shutting himself off from the high offices of state and , provided that he intended to stay within the learned profession , dooming himself to a lifetime of service in the kasabat kadiliks unless he could somehow get back into the medrese stream . |
| 6 | ' I do n't think he would have trusted himself to be married , ’ the actor remembered for me . |
| 7 | In the latter case , one 's evidence is likely to be discounted by both sides simultaneously , which can be frustrating to the researcher to find himself to be ‘ the pig in the middle ’ . |
| 8 | The Earl Marischal , who had supposed himself to be in charge , immediately yielded his position to Tullibardine , though retaining command of the ships which had brought them there . |
| 9 | He must have supposed himself to be using a language absolutely purged of metaphor when he wrote at the grand climax of the Discourse on method |
| 10 | The name Tolkien , he once remarked in a letter , is based on the German word for foolhardy : which is what , when he finally had his huge romance published , he must have supposed himself to be . |
| 11 | The German Grand Prix was next and Hunt scored another victory to pull himself to within 14 points of Lauda but the race was marred by the horrific accident to the Austrian who was badly burnt in his wrecked car . |
| 12 | Men , as he tried to pull himself to his feet , something big and heavy and square cannoned into him out of the dark and plunged off after the wizard . |
| 13 | Anchoring himself to a piton , he cut the climbing rope and started to unravel its strands , working with the nearly frozen fingers of one hand . |
| 14 | We end up with the Shakespeare we knew savaged and refashioned in the Laureate 's own image with ‘ an almost pathological psychic alienation from the culture within which his plays triumphed ’ : the Blackamoor , the naked , essential man , hovelled with swine , revealing himself to Lear and to Timon in their extremity . |
| 15 | He beamed at her , revealing himself to be more drunk than Lydia had first supposed . |
| 16 | Ramsay now found himself to be in command of this detachment , the only knight present . |
| 17 | He may consider himself to be a latter-day President Kennedy , or be tempted to follow the pro-IRA line taken by Senator Edward Kennedy . |
| 18 | JH : When launching , say , into Beethoven 's Op. 2 No. 3 C major Sonata ( for example ) , do you still find yourself thinking very much of ‘ Beethoven the young lion ’ announcing himself to the world ? |
| 19 | He helped himself to another brandy and waved the bottle before Herr Nordern 's eyes . |
| 20 | The Brigadier seemed to be thinking furiously as he helped himself to another glass of port . |
| 21 | Otley made me some hot milk and honey and helped himself to a cheese and pickle sandwich and a mug of strong coffee . |
| 22 | To keep himself busy , Mr Cottle helped himself to porridge from a steaming bowl . |
| 23 | He strolled towards the table and helped himself to a biscuit off Ari 's plate . |
| 24 | The Vicar then took the text for his sermon from the second lesson , ‘ God loveth a cheerful giver ’ , and was so carried away by his own rhetoric that he absent-mindedly helped himself to most of the grapes hanging down from the top of the pulpit . |
| 25 | DERYCK FOX helped himself to 13 points with a try , four goals and a drop goal to take the man of the match award and send Widnes crashing out of the Regal Trophy . |
| 26 | Lee Chapman helped himself to a hat-trick in that 6-1 victory but the onslaught really stemmed from Wednesday 's failure to cut out Dorigo 's overlapping runs . |
| 27 | In September 1990 the respondent appeared with his new employer at the wholesale locksmith 's , and during the sales assistant 's brief absence the respondent helped himself to a key-cutting machine from stock . |
| 28 | Today when the four younger boys left for school , Jack helped himself to another cup of tea . |
| 29 | In a sullen silence he lit a cigar and helped himself to a stiff measure of brandy . |
| 30 | DERYCK FOX , Northern 's £140,000 club record buy , helped himself to 19 points as brilliant Bradford shattered Saints ' unbeaten championship record . |