Example sentences of "[v-ing] himself to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He beamed at her , revealing himself to be more drunk than Lydia had first supposed . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Arnulf achieved his goal , thereby opening himself to charges of duplicity . |
| 8 | If not it seems to me possible that Summerchild could be opening himself to proceedings under the Official Secrets Act . |
| 9 | But apart from his rugby chores , McBride will be stretching his maternal instincts to the limit — He 's gearing himself to be a father for the first time in October . |
| 10 | Being able to look back , by means of regression , and discover that their condition has a logical and rational cause , takes away that feeling of stupidity and prevents the patient condemning himself to a lifetime of inevitable failure . |
| 11 | As well as giving him moral ascendancy over the rest of the company , driving himself to exhaustion might also cloud critical judgement , so that comments would be made on the effort that had gone into the show rather than on its quality . ) |
| 12 | As a youth , he was never an avid record collector and he had no real interest in applying himself to mastering an instrument . |
| 13 | He struggled to match the already competent Dave Fielding , but was soon applying himself to pecuniary areas . |
| 14 | ‘ Many felt he was allowing himself to be misrepresented . ’ |
| 15 | He admitted burglary , handling stolen goods and allowing himself to be carried in a stolen car and was jailed for 21 months yesterday by Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court . |
| 16 | He was jailed for 21 months at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court yesterday after admitting burglary , handling stolen goods and allowing himself to be carried in a stolen car . |
| 17 | But instead of allowing himself to be weaned off the drug , he went ‘ cold turkey ’ . |
| 18 | He provided titillating material — allowing himself to be photographed in the Cliveden swimming-pool with the lady . |
| 19 | It was on the tip of Jehan 's tongue to suggest that Alexei was allowing himself to be used only because it suited him ; but it was clear that discussing the subject was making Jehana unhappy , and so he said nothing , sitting quietly beside her until suddenly she got up and went into the house . |
| 20 | The last and smallest darted back , self-importantly , to inscribe his name with care in the visitors ' book , which lay open on a table by the door , before allowing himself to be shepherded after his companions . |
| 21 | Aindow is further charged with conspiracy with others to pervert the course of justice by allowing himself to be struck in the leg in order to support a false story that he had been hit by the joyriders ' car . |
| 22 | He is further charged with conspiracy with others to pervert the course of justice by allowing himself to be struck in the leg in order to support a false story that he was hit by the stolen car . |
| 23 | Meanwhile the other lawyer was growing impatient with Bartocci for allowing himself to be imposed upon in this way by his pushy and unscrupulous colleague instead of attending to his utterly reasonable request for bail or a visitor 's pass or access to official files . |
| 24 | To explain the-timidity of these people , we need look no further than the example of Arthur Jensen , who , after devoting himself to the study of educationally significant individual differences , is declared by the press to be an advocate of segregated schooling for ‘ poor and black children ’ . |
| 25 | He was again imprisoned in 1677 for six months for failing to attend the Church of England 's services , but for the remainder of his life was free , devoting himself to his pastoral duties and his writings . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , he was making friends of working men and trade unionists , and devoting himself to educational work . |
| 27 | His attendance at the Royal Society dwindled after the early 1670s , and he evidently divided his time between London and Deepdene , devoting himself to horticultural , alchemical , and other pursuits . |
| 28 | He , after all , was a member of an unbeaten Edinburgh Academy XV as a 15-year-old before devoting himself to athletics en route to becoming an international sprinter . |
| 29 | He was proving himself to be not only an accurate witness to the times , but a respected one , too . |
| 30 | The Prince Napoleon-Jerome had from the inauguration of the Empire been a constant , and public , critic of his cousin 's policies , proving himself to be at best an embarrassment , at worst a threat to the regime . |