Example sentences of "[vb pp] himself [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But instead of announcing free and fair elections to these powerful bodies , Mr Ishaq has occupied himself manipulating the most important of them , that in Punjab . |
| 2 | He says his only reason for deciding to kill Caesar was that he had committed himself to help the general public . |
| 3 | Eltharion accepted and has busied himself strengthening the land of Yvresse ever since . |
| 4 | It was after ten when the long day ended , the king having busied himself visiting the wounded , including those from the enemy army ; he had , it soon appeared , decisively won the Battle of the Boyne for the loss of 500 men ; James 's casualties were put at 1600 . |
| 5 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 6 | He tells his mother he has cut himself to explain the blood on his jeans . |
| 7 | Moreover since he did not wish to have preying on his mind any malice or grudge by reason of which his father might later be offended , he revealed that he had pledged himself to support the barons of Aquitaine against his brother Richard and said that he had done this because Richard had fortified the castle of Clairvaux though it really belonged to the Angevin patrimony which he should inherit from his father . " |
| 8 | They saw his body in the moat , where he had thrown himself to escape the mob . |
| 9 | Beefy has backed himself to complete the 23-day marathon hike in 130 hours at odds of 16-1 . |