Example sentences of "had [verb] himself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bracing the lamp with his foot , he jerked the flex out and then had to steady himself as the unstable ground beneath him shifted . |
| 2 | " And directly after this , at the beginning of Chapter 17 , there is another abrupt change of tone : [ 7 ] Captain Cuttle , in the exercise of that surprising talent for deep-laid and unfathomable scheming , with which ( as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity ) he sincerely believed himself to be endowed by nature , had gone to Mr Dombey 's house on the eventful Sunday , winking all the way as a vent for his superfluous sagacity , and had presented himself in the full lustre of the ankle-jacks before the eyes of Towlinson ( I ) . |
| 3 | In the interim , Alistair had convinced himself of the following : before returning his aggrieved letter , Sixsmith had steamed it open and then resealed it . |
| 4 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 5 | Karelius had stationed himself on the right flank , a little to the rear of those in the very forefront . |
| 6 | At the moment of crisis , in the hand-to-hand fighting at the gates of Taillebourg when the decision could have gone either way , Richard had thrown himself into the thick of the melee . |
| 7 | For posterity he had dressed himself in the imperial style of one hundred and ten years earlier ; a simpler , more brutal style , without embellishment . |
| 8 | The wish for a ‘ god ’ may have been the unavoidable outcome of the fact that the developing human being , in his desire-motivated influence on evolution , had to reproduce himself through the mammalian process . |
| 9 | By December 1982 , when Celtic lifted the League Cup for the first time since the mid-'70s , Nicholas had established himself as the young sensation of Scottish football . |
| 10 | Lenin had been the effective leader in the United States of Soviet Russia but he died in January 1924 , leaving two possible successors , Trotsky and Stalin , but Stalin had established himself in the Communist hierarchy and Trotsky was subsequently expelled . |