Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to West European diplomats in Managua , President Daniel Ortega is running out of time in his attempts to present himself to the Nicaraguan electorate on February 25 as the ‘ peace maker ’ who ended the contra war . |
| 2 | He comically dismisses his attempts to project himself into the narrative future and finds that the past is rendered elusive by the distortions of the means he uses to recapture it . |
| 3 | More significantly , Anderson 's hesitancies undermine his attempts to assert himself in the situation . |
| 4 | His inability to rid himself of the woman is a recurrent theme , even though a psychoanalytic institute in the US ( where for some reason another analyst has written a book which presents the patient as a great therapeutic success ) actually sent him money regularly so that he could pay her off when she got too demanding . |
| 5 | His willingness to prostitute himself to the worst instincts of the electorate makes Neil Kinnock look like a beacon of moral and political rectitude . |
| 6 | There are , even today , all sorts of varying views on Ken 's theatrical performances and how seriously he took his opportunities to rid himself of the cliché Kenneth Williams image . |
| 7 | Woil stared around him and then suddenly with a push of his wings raised himself into the air , turned , and landed ten feet away on the back of a green bench . |
| 8 | His contemporaries reported him as a master of geological field-mapping techniques and his original maps of many parts of Scotland confirm his observational skills and his ability to locate himself in the wilderness with an accuracy that can not be improved upon with aerial photographs . |
| 9 | He was also a major shareholder in three commercial television companies , and was at the time of his death interesting himself in the production of programmes for network on the new commercial radio station . |