Example sentences of "himself [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
| 2 | Seeing himself as the peacemaker among his fellow monarchs , and adopting as his motto Beati Pacifici ( Blessed are the Peacemakers ) , he repeatedly refused to commit himself wholeheartedly to the Protestant cause . |
| 3 | Edward , however , was still reluctant to commit himself wholeheartedly to Balliol 's cause . |
| 4 | Tom himself said it was because he had to work hard at school at subjects other than music , he could not devote himself wholeheartedly to the flute . |
| 5 | I think he would have liked another , but instead he pulled himself slowly to his feet . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The goalkeeper was also required to throw himself acrobatically to his left-hand post when a header from Ferguson off a Robertson freekick once again underlined his threat . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Pulling himself wearily to his feet , he walked to the window , drew aside the curtain and gazed out at the blackness . |
| 10 | But whereas Roosevelt and Churchill hoped that ‘ friendly ’ policies could be guaranteed through liberal-democratic regimes , Stalin , with bitter memories of Western policy in eastern Europe between the wars , was willing to trust himself only to Communist-led governments . |
| 11 | ‘ You and Miss Smith can go now , McGee , ’ said Wheeler curtly , addressing himself only to McGee . |
| 12 | He did not restrict himself merely to giving his assent to publication , but added his comments , as , for example , on Two Treatises … concerning Infant Baptism ( 1645 ) by John Tombes [ q.v. ] , where he acknowledged that the author was a godly man ‘ and of the Presbyterian judgement , though I am not of opinion with him ’ and he agreed to the publication of these treatises to encourage further contributions to the debate on infant baptism . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Pennethorne protested that since 1845 , he had devoted himself entirely to the Office 's work and now found that he had lost all his work . |
| 15 | His dissertation was nearly finished but for the last six months he had almost stopped work on it and had devoted himself entirely to his passion , a crusade against nuclear power . |
| 16 | A practising engineer until the age of forty , Albert Ayme did not throw away his slide-rule and set-square when he decided to devote himself entirely to painting . |
| 17 | After his retirement from the Institut Pasteur , where he lectured for some 50 years , he devoted himself entirely to his cookery studies . |
| 18 | For example the German scholar who wrote a monumental life of Philip Augustus in six volumes and , in the process , came to study Richard 's career with great thoroughness , believed that " he had abandoned himself entirely to the pleasures of Messina where the women seemed very seductive to warriors from the North " . |
| 19 | Nu was no longer concerned with politics ; he devoted himself entirely to Buddhism . |
| 20 | He believed in doing , and came into his own when he was free to renounce the responsibility of reasoning anything out and could trust himself entirely to his own reflexes . |
| 21 | ‘ Just stand back , ’ he growled , as he lifted himself painfully to his feet . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A real detective superintendent investigating a murder will confine himself largely to facts and only at the height of questioning someone he is almost certain is his quarry is he likely to go into motivation as a way , as often as not , of bring about a final confession . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 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 | Emile Durkheim ( 1959–1917 ) addressed himself directly to the question of punishment to a much greater extent than either Marx or Weber ever did . |
| 29 | One of the authors who addresses himself directly to our main concerns is Ardrey . |
| 30 | Since he did not commit himself unreservedly to any party he earned a reputation for political inconsistency , and had to confront the hazards of non-alignment when war broke out in 1642 . |