Example sentences of "to [verb] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was paving the way to amusing himself with me in the future when Mme Chaillot was out of town . |
| 2 | He has carried on the good work this term and is well on the way to establishing himself in the top 10 with 16 wins in the current campaign . |
| 3 | Now Taylor is looking forward to forcing himself into the England pace attack alongside the likes of Chris Lewis , Devon Malcolm and Phil DeFreitas . |
| 4 | Mr Mellor has now taken to describing himself as a ‘ victim of circula-tion wars . ’ |
| 5 | In 1918 Sanders thought he had a chance to become Chief Secretary for Ireland , but was soon reduced to considering himself as a possible Speaker ; in 1921 he was passed over for Chief Whip because it did not suit the coalition to have such a partisan in so sensitive a post . |
| 6 | ‘ It will be enlightening to see if his new-found honesty runs to incriminating himself in any way , ’ observed Amiss . |
| 7 | Instead of this , Morita spent the time taking clocks apart , listening to Western classical music and preferring to study physics to putting himself into business . |