Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] himself to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He immediately began to help himself to the food . |
| 2 | His skull was smashed , but he managed to drag himself to the Roebuck ( no longer there ) , where he later died . |
| 3 | In the run-up to the elections Fujimori sought to present himself to the public as the defender of democracy , claiming that opposition politicians had been behind a coup attempt on Nov. 13 aimed at preventing the CCD elections from taking place and restoring the 1979 Constitution . |
| 4 | On reaching Arcady , he 'd attempted to call Zambia 's old apartment and had explained himself to the woman who now lived there . |
| 5 | But the worst of all was to read what she had finally written on the night before the bazaar , the night before he had added himself to the list of those who had betrayed her — It was the worst hurt of his life . |
| 6 | Charles had pushed himself to the limit in the armed forces and had insisted upon doing the full training that his fellow officers did — despite protests from his superiors . |
| 7 | He had pushed himself to the limit . |
| 8 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 9 | The father jumped out of his car and began to run to where his son had thrown himself to the ground . |
| 10 | If occasionally he still dreamed of Madeleine , of holding her in his arms , kissing her , he had reconciled himself to the belief that marriage between them could only have ended in disaster . |
| 11 | Ken had mortgaged himself to the hilt with the flat in Brunswick Gardens , Kensington and after one interminable row following another , he told his parents to leave the flat . |
| 12 | Scrope relied almost exclusively on George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , but consequently had to adapt himself to the tergiversations of the latter 's policies . |
| 13 | It was nothing to do with me if the porter wished to bring himself to the notice of Shaitan . |
| 14 | The reason Gandhi gives for choosing to become a vānaprasthin is that he wanted to devote himself to the service of the community . |