Example sentences of "have [verb] himself against " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of his regrets is that in four series against West Indies his record is very ordinary — one innings in which he took eight wickets , but little else of note — and he is aware that not having proved himself against the best team in the world will be held against him when reputations come to be assessed . |
| 2 | For years , he had pitted himself against it , aware that it would mean the time for worrying about the future was over and the time for action had arrived . |
| 3 | Later in the session Noell had to defend himself against accusations of having made an illicit profit out of transporting captured Irish , Scottish , and English Royalist soldiers , political prisoners , and convicted criminals to Barbados ; he denied not the facts of such transportation but the allegations of cruelty and profiteering arising therefrom . |
| 4 | About 1146 Adam became canon of the cathedral of Paris ; as such he took part in the Paris synod of 1147 , presided over by Pope Eugenius III , at which Gilbert of Poitiers had to defend himself against charges of heretical doctrines concerning the nature of God and the Trinity . |
| 5 | The episode marked more problems for the IAAF president , Primo Nebiolo , who on Thursday had to defend himself against accusations that news of Johnson 's positive test had been deliberately delayed in an effort not to cast a cloud over the Toronto event . |