Example sentences of "[vb past] himself [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Convinced that there were practical solutions to the social evils of his day , he devoted himself particularly to the temperance movement . |
| 2 | This surrender was legitimized only if the monarch devoted himself unsparingly to the good of the state and his subjects . |
| 3 | After his retirement from the Institut Pasteur , where he lectured for some 50 years , he devoted himself entirely to his cookery studies . |
| 4 | Nu was no longer concerned with politics ; he devoted himself entirely to Buddhism . |
| 5 | Masklin lowered himself carefully to the floor and crept forward . |
| 6 | He lowered himself gingerly to a gilt chair and stirred his coffee , the spoon circulating slowly until it finally stopped and he sat staring at it . |
| 7 | He applied himself enthusiastically to his studies , to the extent that during one term he was attending night classes after completing his normal day classes at Queensbury Highter Elementary School in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 8 | ‘ Just stand back , ’ he growled , as he lifted himself painfully to his feet . |
| 9 | In 1816 he was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy and made a knight of the Danish Order of Dannebrog , on the strength of which he allowed himself thenceforth to be called ‘ Sir Charles ’ . |
| 10 | When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear . |
| 11 | The Consul General addressed himself exclusively to the Substitute in slow , accurate Italian , pronounced with his native accent . |
| 12 | ‘ We are all men of the world ’ — he excluded the Archdeacon from eye contact and addressed himself exclusively to the Dean — ‘ so of course we know , do we not , that problems of that sort for young clergy bring with them all kinds of undesirable connections . |
| 13 | Confronted with a party weighted in favour of the clerical , he nevertheless took a thoughtful look at Hugh Beringar , and addressed himself rather to the secular justice . |
| 14 | In the preface to another intelligence report , the SEAC Assistant Director of Intelligence addressed himself squarely to some of the political problems which were being faced . |
| 15 | Emile Durkheim ( 1959–1917 ) addressed himself directly to the question of punishment to a much greater extent than either Marx or Weber ever did . |
| 16 | She gave a laugh and he pressed himself closer to her beneath the cover . |
| 17 | But that sudden reminder of ‘ thoughts full of bitterness ’ and images too dearly loved ’ , as he expressed himself theatrically to Southey , subdued his high spirits only briefly . |
| 18 | I think he would have liked another , but instead he pulled himself slowly to his feet . |
| 19 | He was a Swede , in iron ore , and he kept himself firmly to himself . |
| 20 | But he thought it a reasonable request to ask for a route and he took himself away to Tara 's great map room to procure maps for them . |
| 21 | He took himself furiously to an inn , had breakfast there and reserved a room for the night ; it was too expensive for him to stay long . |
| 22 | We had assumed that their affair would in some way be a violent one , because O was known to be violent , and because Boy made you feel strange when he gave himself away to you , a strangeness , and a feeling that you always wanted more , that often came out as violence . |
| 23 | Mr De Benedetti presented himself voluntarily to Milan magistrates on May 16th after rumours began to appear in the Italian press that his company had paid bribes to win contracts , notably with Italy 's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications . |
| 24 | From the time of the Russian counter-offensive in mid-November 1942 , the Wehrmacht reports — seen and amended by Hitler himself — were largely silent about Stalingrad , and Goebbels , probably not fully informed of the true situation , confined himself largely to warnings about the severity of the struggle and the need to avoid the impression that a decisive stroke was imminent . |
| 25 | In moral matters he confined himself solely to warning me of the dangers of masturbation . |
| 26 | He put his pen down , flexed his fingers in a by now automatic reflex , dragged himself across to the window , looked out , and burst into tears . |
| 27 | We do n't know exactly where but it must have been close , as he dragged himself home to his favourite spot on the lawn where his life ebbed out of him in the quiet of the night . |
| 28 | Carson pushed himself blindly to his feet . |
| 29 | a near neighbour in Kent — Welch never attached himself formally to any school of painting , yet he became an almost unconscious and very prolific exponent of the neo-Romantic movement . |