Example sentences of "himself [adv] to [art] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | Emile Durkheim ( 1959–1917 ) addressed himself directly to the question of punishment to a much greater extent than either Marx or Weber ever did . |
| 8 | This surrender was legitimized only if the monarch devoted himself unsparingly to the good of the state and his subjects . |
| 9 | ‘ As the intention of the Society is to form Veterinary Physicians and Surgeons intended to be dispersed throughout the Kingdom to exercise usefully their art , the Professor will teach the residing pupils only the most important difference between the two medicines — that of the human body , and that of Cattle — he will confine himself strictly to the teaching of the Veterinary Science . ’ |
| 10 | Naisbitt is a shrewd observer and in practice he does not limit himself strictly to the confines of content analysis . |
| 11 | Masklin lowered himself carefully to the floor and crept forward . |
| 12 | The actor , in attempting to subject himself spontaneously to an occurrence and at the same time communicate that occurrence to an audience , is experiencing an unresolvable tension . |
| 13 | Two years later in 1738 he married Mrs Miller 's sister , Susanna Kennet , linking himself securely to the Chelsea circle . |
| 14 | Convinced that there were practical solutions to the social evils of his day , he devoted himself particularly to the temperance movement . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | The Consul General addressed himself exclusively to the Substitute in slow , accurate Italian , pronounced with his native accent . |
| 17 | Notice that Paul does not tie himself legalistically to the details of Jesus 's words . |
| 18 | Jesus pushed himself off and floated rapidly around the Lift , bringing himself expertly to a stop less than a metre from the slight form of Christine LaFayette . |
| 19 | Richard Baxter 's view that it was advantageous for a pastor to be celibate in order to give himself fully to the work of the ministry was well known . |
| 20 | It is likely that the church planter will soon want to leave his secular employment to devote himself fully to the work . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 23 | He has committed himself definitely to a belief . |
| 24 | When it fell to Dukes to introduce the second stage of the Bill empowering the referendum , he was forced to address himself specifically to the bishops ' arguments in their letter ( text , Irish Times , 15 May 1986 ) . |
| 25 | Throughout his career there have been calls on Prince by both the US and UK critical establishment to be a better role model , to make himself accountable to some kind of community , to address himself explicitly to the problems of the day . |