Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] himself to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 2 | The relative speed with which emancipation came about after he ascended the throne gives the impression that he addressed himself to it with enthusiasm , but even in Russian politics six years was a long time . |
| 3 | I believe that he committed himself to assuring that he would never be party to such a thing again if he could prevent it . |
| 4 | His dedication to the task of reforming Japan meant that he committed himself to policies of fundamental reform and governmental intervention through the office of Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers , Japan ( SCAP ) , which he would have condemned in other contexts . |
| 5 | Later he became less abusive and rather pathetically said that he kept himself to himself , that the girl was not roaming the streets getting into trouble like the girls who went to school , that company now would be cruel and shameful to an old man who had provided her with a home , protected her and looked after her in every way . |
| 6 | It was to the former that he believed himself to be responding . |
| 7 | The discovery that he was still here , that his heart had found time , in that sinister cell he inhabited , to entrench itself in the obsessions of his lifetime , and that he believed himself to be in contact with the ghost of the dead king , were complications Huy could have done without . |
| 8 | ( And rather shocked that he helped himself to two of Helmut 's silk scarves . |
| 9 | Dunlop refused and for the first time revealed that he considered himself to be the sole owner of the horse . |