Example sentences of "[to-vb] himself on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have only just begun discussions with Celtic over renewing my contract and it has not got to the stage of the manager making me an offer , ’ said the player whose ability to impose himself on the opposition might be thought worthy of international recognition . |
| 2 | He needed to support himself on the bannister . |
| 3 | Cassie wondered hazily whether in Johnny 's book it would be considered all right to force himself on the other sort of girl , whoever she may be ! |
| 4 | Vechey had decided to hang himself on the last . |
| 5 | Hamilton elected to station himself on the Queen Elizabeth , de Robeck 's flagship . |
| 6 | Sandys went off to Washington at the end of January to update himself on the latest US operational thinking and advances in weapon technology . |
| 7 | If it can be shown to the satisfaction of the jury that the defendant had the intention , he has very little opportunity to exculpate himself on the grounds that he lacked mens rea , as will be explained further presently . |