Example sentences of "[verb] himself with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |
| 2 | Back in the days when he had yet concerned himself with the world . |
| 3 | Sir Robert Carey , Warden of the English Middle March , had been in London visiting the queen , but had prudently arranged for relays of horses to be ready for him between the capital and Edinburgh , so that he could ingratiate himself with the King of Scots by being the first to arrive with the news that he was now King of England also . |
| 4 | He found himself with the duty of helping to make a vital decision for the Church of England at a moment in its destiny . |
| 5 | We must put all our energies into the preparation for Belle Ile while Schellenberg busies himself with the Steiner affair . ’ |
| 6 | That means you fly to Leningrad and stick around for orders from someone who will introduce himself with the words , ‘ The face of the city has changed . ’ |
| 7 | It was so incongruous to hear the Maggot aligning himself with the forces of law that I was forced to ask the question . |
| 8 | Mr Attlee was careful to position himself with the majority view in Cabinet . |
| 9 | Kruger did n't soil himself with the lucre , but Lorre had his fist out at every opportunity , and was wadding the bills into a fat , healthy roll while his master attempted union with the Infinite . |
| 10 | After 1815 he first involved himself with the religious and social work of Thomas Chalmers [ q.v. ] in Glasgow and then moved to London where he initially promoted seamen 's charities and was an associate of the Evangelical Clapham sect . |
| 11 | Six years on , the family moved to Ugthorpe Lodge on the Whitby moors , a hotel with caravan site and smallholding where Mr Chance also had stables and where he involved himself with the Goathland Pony Club . |
| 12 | He gave support to William Wallace in his fight for Scottish independence but deserted him and aligned himself with the English King Edward I who was trying to dominate Scotland . |
| 13 | He aligned himself with the workers , the rebels at the barricades , with Zola and Michelet and the students of 1848 . |
| 14 | He aligned himself with the Social Christian Party for the 1990 elections , saying that Nicaragua should be free from the influence of the superpowers . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was time for Blake to re-acquaint himself with the stranger . |
| 17 | While Montgomerie radiated confidence and respect for the course , it was a typically down-beat Sandy Lyle who prepared to re-acquaint himself with the course where he made his U.S. Open debut in 1980 . |
| 18 | The lay brother was quiet , contenting himself with the dry comment that he had done enough penance to wipe a thousand years of purgatory from the debt his soul owed God . |
| 19 | Shah Jehan , not contenting himself with the women he had in his palaces , forfeited the respect of his nobles by intrigues with their wives … |
| 20 | Simultaneously , he concerned himself with the idea that cities were necessary , not evil , but that ‘ without the life of the soil from which to draw its strength , the urban culture must lose its source of strength and rejuvenescence ’ . |
| 21 | In his Analogy , Butler concerned himself with the question of what sort of evidence one must possess in order to believe in God . |
| 22 | Raymond Moore & Mary Cooper , Moore concerned himself with the landscape and the mystery of the commonplace . |
| 23 | In Wrexham grandfather had been an active Gladstonian Liberal , and concerned himself with the temperance movement and local government . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But Harry hurried on , consoling himself with the thought that he still retained one secret advantage over those who thought they had the better of him . |
| 26 | The staging of this conference must be seen in the context of certain foreign-policy imperatives for Castro ( to accommodate himself with the Soviet Union and to re-establish the link between Cuba and the revolutionary process in Latin America ) . |
| 27 | Nietzsche was not present , but whereas the premiere of Tristan in 1865 had not prompted any discernible reaction in him , on this occasion he took a much livelier interest and during the following months familiarized himself with the work through the score . |
| 28 | He who endeavours to enrich himself with the property of others , should be deprived of part of his own . |
| 29 | Tonight was by way of a rehearsal to familiarize himself with the place , make final arrangements , and tell the landlord sufficient of their plans to ensure that there was no unforeseen interference . |
| 30 | It might well be of concern to him , for example , if the content of a particular religion proved to be at odds with the ethical criteria he would associate himself with the concept of Truth . |