Example sentences of "[vb pp] himself with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in the days when he had yet concerned himself with the world . |
| 2 | James had armed himself with the sword of Robert the Bruce , but it stood him in poor stead . |
| 3 | He has armed himself with the munitions of modernity , not only with ‘ conventional arms ’ , but also with an arsenal of nuclear , biological and chemical weapons . |
| 4 | For the first time , a major interpretative musician has equipped himself with the necessary skills to mastermind his own visualization of the music he conducts , which allows him , in the process , to offer a new generation of music-lovers a sophisticated set of options for the study and appreciation of music in performance . |
| 5 | He may have confused himself with the Messiah , but he did n't expect to die . |
| 6 | The possibility of a long poem clearly inspired him and , almost as soon as he had settled himself with the Mirrlees , he began to work upon the next poem in the sequence . |
| 7 | There were many times in the past years when he had wondered why on earth he had involved himself with the Hochhauser Season , times when he was worried , exhausted , furious , and prepared to consign the whole company to hell . |
| 8 | has always involved himself with the community and it was during his first term of office here that one of our cherished hopes came to fruition , a community centre for , called The Village Hall . |
| 9 | Born and bred in Stockport , he had identified himself with the life of the town and the School . |
| 10 | The principle that no man can be a judge in his own cause may also be infringed if a person has so actively identified himself with the temperance cause , by his actions in campaigning against the granting of certificates , that it would be contrary to elementary justice that he should act as a member of a licensing board . |
| 11 | As the heating was off it had been cold , but he had comforted himself with the thought that it was not as cold as it was outside where many of the animals were . |
| 12 | Charles ' father , Pepin le Bref , had allied himself with the papacy against Lombardy , but Charles eventually destroyed the Lombards and took the Iron Crown for himself . |