Example sentences of "he [verb] himself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a moment 's hesitation she sat in one of the large armchairs , half expecting to be pushed on to the settee , but he allowed her to sit alone , only raising an eyebrow as he lowered himself into the matching chair . |
| 2 | He aligned himself with the traditional view that the Scriptures describe unseen things by the form of visible things so as to stimulate reason in cognitive understanding , itself a spiritual reality which is an image of full contemplative knowledge . |
| 3 | He aligned himself with the Social Christian Party for the 1990 elections , saying that Nicaragua should be free from the influence of the superpowers . |
| 4 | He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door . |
| 5 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 6 | There he flung himself into the local setting with characteristic abandon and commitment , participating in the daily round of village life with an eagerness and zest which he attributed partly to his Polish temperament ; there he established standards of meticulous and painstaking observation and inquiry which have been an inspiration to social anthropologists ever since . |
| 7 | He flung himself on the nearest sofa . |
| 8 | He seated himself on the cold tiles and picked at their dark dusty colours with one finger . |
| 9 | Separating the tails of his jacket , he seated himself in the opposite chair , a frown creasing his forehead as he glanced about the room . |
| 10 | ‘ Harry not back yet ? ’ he asked , as he seated himself by the open fireplace . |
| 11 | It must be admitted that a great deal of what Judaeo-Christianity has to say about the ‘ goodness ’ of God is based upon claims about the way in which He involves himself in the historical process . |
| 12 | In Cambridge that autumn he found himself without the steadying influence of Thomas Middleton , and without money . |
| 13 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 14 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 15 | Asked what he would feel like if , on Sunday night , he found himself on the 18th tee tied for the lead , he replied that it could only be a ‘ shattering experience ’ . |
| 16 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 17 | Extraordinary as those visits were — and as warmly welcomed as he found himself in the diverse Kesparates of Yzordderrex — the city state was an autocracy of the most extreme kind , its excesses dwarfing the repressions of the country he 'd been born in . |
| 18 | To and fro from Sydney to Parramatta he devoted himself to the spiritual and physical welfare of the convicts . |
| 19 | He devoted himself to the poor of Leicester . |
| 20 | But why could n't he rid himself of the eerie sensation that it had already happened , that everyone knew except him , that he was being deliberately kept in the dark ? |
| 21 | He described himself as the sinful Messiah . |
| 22 | He busied himself with the electric kettle and a jar of instant coffee , and in a moment or two put the hot drink in front of her . |
| 23 | His Irish wife , Aylish O'Flaherty , ran off with their son , whom she feared would be raised as a heretic ; this was enough , by the statutes of the time , to have the marriage dissolved and the boy dispossessed ; but he distinguished himself in the Civil War , raising a troop of horse for the royalists , while the castle was occupied by Cromwellian troops . |
| 24 | Hastily he dried himself on the thin towel and clambered into clothes that stuck to every inch of his damp body . |
| 25 | He blames himself for the 35-yard rocket from Paul Gascoigne that ripped through his grasp after just five minutes . |
| 26 | I 'll see you , phone you one day in the week , I saw the post lady coming up the drive and I said to Henry who 's that , he threw himself against the top window so there was indeed someone coming up the drive , tore into the dinning room , picked up his tennis ball , raced back to the window and wow , wow , wow , with his ball in his mouth , and I said Henry you 're really going to frightened off intruders with a ball in your mouth , I said . |
| 27 | He ingratiates himself to the hapless couple , putting them completely at ease . |
| 28 | But Pip , as a gentleman , does not move into a sparkling world of pleasure where he lives ‘ happily ever after ’ , instead he find himself in the corrupt , sordid London . |
| 29 | He dumped himself in the battered armchair and watched her , chatting cosily the while . |
| 30 | The effort began to sap his strength and his muscles quivered as at last he pulled himself over the icy edge . |