Example sentences of "have [verb] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At p596 Stamp J asked the rhetorical question : … how can a British Income Tax Act impute to a foreign resident " for the purposes of " that Act an income of which the foreigner has divested himself under the foreign law and which in his hands is altogether outside all the provisions of the Income Tax Act ? |
| 2 | Anyone who has enrolled himself as a disciple of Jesus will want to study the Gospels to discover his teaching about prayer . |
| 3 | Occasionally in the pursuit of profit he has to sacrifice himself to the ordeal of a business lunch with a customer , supplier or business contact . |
| 4 | Linlithgow 's Labour MP , Tam Dalyell , has aligned himself with local people fighting the proposed workings and has expressed concern that they could damage or destroy a line of beech trees bounding the site . |
| 5 | He tells the world that he was the sole survivor of the original wreck , and that he has sustained himself by eating berries , leaves and roots . |
| 6 | MR JOHN MacGregor , the Education Secretary , has distanced himself from the Government 's loans scheme for students by appointing the two most junior ministers at the Department of Education and Science to sit on the parliamentary committee discussing the Education ( Student Loans ) Bill . |
| 7 | As a divorcee , Docherty can no longer take communion and has distanced himself from the catholic faith , an institution he believes deserted him in his hour of need . |
| 8 | ( By stepping back as he blocks , he doubly protects himself : even if the block fails , he has distanced himself from the oncoming punch . ) |
| 9 | Another partner , Mr Tim Haggie , has distinguished himself in sporting circles . |
| 10 | The Word was made flesh in Jesus Christ ; God has given himself to be understood in our terms and on our level ; and even in these terms and on that level it is the reality of God that is given for us to understand . |
| 11 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 12 | ‘ He is responsible for the sabotage on the Base and he has implicated himself by trying to escape , ’ Bishop said harshly . |
| 13 | But Newton , known in the dressing room as ‘ Isaac ’ , still has to pinch himself to be sure he really has arrived in the big time . |
| 14 | Mark Wright , bitterly disappointed at being axed by England , has resigned himself to missing tomorrow 's Anfield battle with Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 15 | Christopher Gill ( Member for Ludlow and a Midlands businessman ) , as has been mentioned in Chapter 6 , has concerned himself for a long time with what were once seen to be obscure constitutional issues of subsidiarity . |
| 16 | Despite the retirement of coaching team-mates Jim Telfer and Derrick Grand after the recent World Cup , Ian McGeechan has committed himself to a further term as Scotland 's principal coach . |
| 17 | Jonathan has committed himself to rising early enough to get in for work before 9.00am . |
| 18 | He would have been a natural replacement for Blair , but in another cruel twist , Gallagher , a university student in Northampton , has committed himself to the English club this season and will not be available to Dungannon for the league . |
| 19 | He has committed himself to us . |
| 20 | TV COMIC Tony Slattery has sketched himself for a charity auction — starkers . |
| 21 | Admiral Jonathan Howe , the American who is the UN secretary-general 's representative in Somalia , and thus the UN 's top man , has surrounded himself with advisers from the State Department , ‘ psy-ops ’ from the CIA , retired colonels from the special forces and military academics from everywhere . |
| 22 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,0000 ) , has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 23 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,000 ) has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 24 | In an early episode of Hill Street Blues the ‘ joke ’ of a ‘ nut ’ who thinks he is Dracula , complete with cape and thirst for blood , is caught out by the discovery that he has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 25 | It is quite enough for me to try to grasp the way in which God has disclosed himself to us . |
| 26 | If God really has disclosed himself in a Son ; and if that Son was characterised by his possession of the Holy Spirit which he has passed on to his followers then we can not with t denying Christ maintain that God has revealed himself a much in Buddhism as in Christianity ; we can not make an amalgam of religions as if we were all honest seekers after a God who hides himself . |
| 27 | He has shot himself in the arm . |
| 28 | If a patient returns after a prolonged course of antibiotic therapy and is still found to be harbouring the ubiquitous pus cell in the urethra , then it may well be that he has reinfected himself from his , as yet untreated , sexual partner . |
| 29 | In recent years Winters has interested himself in making objects of glass and ceramics . |
| 30 | The ‘ I ’ describing conversations he has n't direct access to , which he was n't present at , which he may not even have been told about and so may be inventing , is the ‘ character ’ Dostoevsky has turned himself into for the purpose of narrating the provincial chronicle . |