Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another former confidant , John Biffen , in effect removed himself from the government after coded criticism of the Prime Minister 's strident , dogmatic style . |
| 2 | In order to ingratiate himself with the populace , he rebuilt the Temple of Jerusalem on a hitherto unprecedented scale . |
| 3 | At the beginning of April , Sheikh Saud Nasir al-Sabah , a member of the royal family and Kuwait 's ambassador to America , visited Phoenix in order to reacquaint himself with the Phoenician . |
| 4 | If he had crawled under the rails in order to throw himself off the cliff , then he could easily have caught his slacks on something and left the thread behind . |
| 5 | The priest must be celibate in order to purify himself for the handling of the sacred in the sacrament . |
| 6 | Now er I 'm thinking in in the case of er perhaps a young accountant advising on financial management who finds something odd and perhaps he reports it direct to the authorities , will he be covered or will he have to go through some procedure in order to bring himself within the protection ? |
| 7 | In the other match , Jonathan Speelman claimed a time-out , taking a break in order to think himself into the right frame of mind to fight his way back into the match . |
| 8 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view that I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that beauty is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |
| 9 | He is in fact opposing himself to the view I was trying to get out of the older writers , namely that ‘ beauty ’ is the name of some sort of spiritual being . |