Example sentences of "of [v-ing] himself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 2 | However , he appreciated the cathartic nature of expressing himself through the written word . |
| 3 | Morceli says he is ‘ 80 per cent ’ confident of providing himself with the perfect 23rd birthday present by eclipsing Eamonn Coghlan 's ten-year-old mile mark of 3min 49.78sec but Norman believes other records will also tumble , with Colin Jackson in the 60m hurdles and Murray providing the British challenge . |
| 4 | Nor did he much approve of subjecting himself to the nervous exhaustion of house parties as other peoples ' guest . |
| 5 | Closer co-operation with Western Europe was ideally suited to Adenauer 's policy of distancing himself from the Eastern bloc after September 1955 , when Moscow upset him by recognising East Germany as a sovereign state . |
| 6 | Buckmaster 's habit of distancing himself from the seamier side of the company worried him . |
| 7 | He was wary of identifying himself to the French people as a " democrat " at a time when democracy was equated with the detested Third Republic . |