Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb -s] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 2 | His , though , is a concern with modern city life rather than with the truly rural , and it is in the sheer acreage of glass in the walls of the towering skyscraper blocks that he devotes himself to a series of studies on the diagonal . |
| 3 | He makes it repeatedly clear that he addresses himself to the Greeks who have little knowledge of Roman institutions ; but on the other hand he refers to Roman readers ( 6.5 1 .3–8 ) and is quite obviously looking at them over his shoulder . |
| 4 | Does not the Prime Minister think that he owes it to the country to say exactly which other taxes he would put up to pay for his bribe ? |
| 5 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 6 | And he takes me to an Italian restaurant in Mitcham . |
| 7 | McQueen is happiest in the action sequences such as the exciting ‘ Great Escape ’ from the prison during a concert of French ballet music , and his subsequent flight through the jungle , surviving snakes , crocodiles , Indian blowpipes , and a leper colony until he gets himself to a nunnery and is betrayed by the Mother Superior . |
| 8 | If he refers it to the Court of Appeal , Courtney may well spend a proper period in jail . |
| 9 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 10 | He may use tools of analysis developed within a wider European tradition , but he applies them to a special problem : the uniqueness of our nation 's formation ; the condition of England . |
| 11 | v. Wilts U.D. , but he addresses himself to the question and uses his intelligence . |
| 12 | He 'll want things to go on just as before , while he helps himself to a share of the takings . |
| 13 | It 'll be up to him whether he throws me to the dogs and I finish up in a debtor 's prison , or whether he turns into a guardian angel complete with halo and big fat cheque . |
| 14 | However , when he surrenders himself to the moods and atmospheres of the hills , something authentic comes through : |
| 15 | When he commits himself to an assignment — be it a poem , a book , a song , or merely aiding a fellow-scribbler 's itch , he does it with gusto — con brio , as he might annotate one of his scores . |
| 16 | Ackroyd 's truest prose occurs when he applies himself to the imitation of ancient and recent writers — a repertoire of others . |