Example sentences of "[vb base] himself with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Damnation ’ will approach his target and introduce himself with an opening line which usually goes something like , ‘ Hi . |
| 2 | The first was over the board 's decision to close the senior staff dining-room and require staff to eat in the staff canteen : Fred apparently thinks you initiated this policy , and resents the fact that he will no longer be able to produce a limited number of high-quality meals and thus ingratiate himself with the senior staff . |
| 3 | ‘ Rickie Crowninshield , ’ I said stiffly , ‘ has already lost the sight of one eye because of cocaine , and if he does n't stop using the drug then he will almost certainly go to jail or even kill himself with an overdose . ’ |
| 4 | He told Norwich Crown Court he became so de-pressed that he went to the girl 's Felixstowe home , cut himself with a knife and rubbed poison into the wound in a suicide bid . |
| 5 | Yet Othello has the integrity not to make excuses for his error but to accept his responsibility , equate himself with the ‘ malignant and turbaned Turk ’ , and execute himself . |