Example sentences of "[vb infin] himself to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Lord Wilberforce 's statement in Tameside , that the decision-maker should properly direct himself to the facts , provides a good example of one aspect of factual review which would allow the courts great latitude for substituting their view for that of the decision-maker . |
| 3 | He held his last press conference in 1955 , but no more than in 1946 did he resign himself to a permanent retirement . |
| 4 | He does not confine himself to ‘ organs of extreme perfection ’ , but also describes , as he believes , maladaptive overdevelopments ( Irish elk ) , nonadaptive organs , useless incipient stages . |
| 5 | Baldwin did not confine himself to Rothermere : |
| 6 | In the reply he is not allowed to introduce any new matter and must confine himself to replying to the points made in the discussion and to summarising the main arguments he put forward when moving the motion . |
| 7 | He should confine himself to the questions put to him . |
| 8 | He plans to stay in Sheffield to compete on the first day of the UK Championships today then concentrate on training , his Olympic place assured without having to jump in the trials in Birmingham on June 27–28 , in which he 'll confine himself to an outing in the 100 metres . |
| 9 | Owen also does not confine himself to writing only one type of poem but uses many different kinds so to appeal to more people . |
| 10 | Nor did he introduce himself to Ellen or Thessy , but instead looked warily up into the rigging as though he expected to be ambushed from the foremast 's crosstrees . |
| 11 | Stating that Mr McNeill ‘ apologises without reservation for the offence caused by his remarks ’ , Mr Pignatelli said his deputy would further explain himself to the council 's advisory group on racial equality and the Strathclyde Community Relations Council on Thursday . |
| 12 | For his part the president , as he tries to get the cooperation he needs , will not restrict himself to offering inducements . |
| 13 | He would treat himself to a seat in the front row . |
| 14 | He would lend himself to a deluge ; she would imagine water gushing into a basin . |
| 15 | He would just sprint himself to a standstill in a couple of hundred metres . |
| 16 | Richard , he said , was deeply offended that anyone should think he would lower himself to the depths of duping the editor of Music Week . |
| 17 | It may however be noted that the immunity against judicial interrogation is no longer as complete as it was , for the abolition by the Criminal Evidence Act 1898 of the rule that an accused was not even a competent witness at his own trial opened up the possibility that if he did give evidence he would expose himself to questioning by counsel for the prosecution and in appropriate circumstances by the judge himself ; and his privilege against self-incrimination whilst giving evidence was expressly removed by section 1 ( e ) of the Act of 1898 . |
| 18 | By the same token , one wonders what leader , in some of the countries so quick to condemn Smith , would expose himself to such a cross-examination ? ) |
| 19 | It should be noted that if any of these ineffective exclusion clauses are included in an advertisement , the trader responsible will expose himself to the risk of proceedings against him under the Control of Misleading Advertisements Regulations 1988 ( see paragraph 16 — 37 , below ) . |
| 20 | From the seller 's point of view , rather than expose himself to the vagaries of litigation , and the need to negotiate with each buyer as to exactly what remedies are appropriate in each case , it is preferable to set out a specific and detailed procedure which deals with the remedying of defects . |
| 21 | The finder of goods is entitled — except only against one who can show himself to be the owner — to legal protection against all the world . |
| 22 | Jesus told the leper to go and show himself to the priest and make an offering for his healing . |
| 23 | He screamed that he would give himself to the Devil if he caught the girl before she reached home . |
| 24 | Perhaps he could bring himself to back into Karen 's bowl ? |
| 25 | He probably wants to but ca n't bring himself to . ’ |
| 26 | He did not believe himself to be any the wiser as regards the reason for it not firing , but he thought he might as well try again . |
| 27 | He does not believe himself to be guilty of murder , and yet he now faces between and fifteen years ' imprisonment . |
| 28 | At worst he will limit himself to two a month , one Nil by his boss ( which the Profitboss might well have to suffer ) and one he might run for his own team to review progress . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , her husband could not reconcile himself to having married a commoner and even taught their sons to be disrespectful to her when they were young . |
| 30 | Luke would have said that politically he stood way to the left of his mother and way , way to the left of his father , but somehow he could not reconcile himself to the thought of his mother stocking shelves in Pricewell 's . |