Example sentences of "himself with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He seems to have surrounded himself with every comfort ; but that is hardly surprising , if he has stayed here all the week for ten years . ’ |
| 2 | No that consideration , I think , you know if he did n't kill himself with a chainsaw he 'd probably be alright with the shredder . |
| 3 | The heat haze rose from the ground as he flagellated himself with a cat o' nine chains . |
| 4 | He would closet himself with a bottle of port and a cigar or pipe , read the end of the previous instalment , and then write the next , drawing his fee when he handed over the text . |
| 5 | He proposed to create an additional fund to increase the endowment and started it off himself with a donation of £1,000 . |
| 6 | In one incident a police officer had to defend himself with a truncheon against a girl threatening him with a piece of broken glass . |
| 7 | Excusing himself with a bow he made his way out to find Richie waiting behind the stand . |
| 8 | He can console himself with a winter passage booked to Australia , and the knowledge that his talent and determined character have finally set him on a rightful path to the pinnacle of the game . |
| 9 | She 'd wondered who 'd handle that side of it somehow she could n't imagine the night manager himself with a housekeeping trolley piled high with sheets and towels . |
| 10 | Bream armed himself with a knife . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At the conclusion of the episode , Rennie contented himself with a warning about defective speedometers . |
| 13 | The attempt on his life , in which he is understood to have injected himself with a drug overdose , was his third since his arrest . |
| 14 | Corporal Ryan , the Irish Corporal , went off for a week 's leave in Marseilles and , for an unknown reason , killed himself with a hunting rifle in a hotel in the Old port . |
| 15 | A FORMER miner who armed himself with a toy gun to protest against pit closures walked free from court yesterday . |
| 16 | Dean Jones announced himself with a century in the opening Sunday League game , a stirring win over Lancashire , and Ian Botham interspersed some big one-day scores with a vain but valiant century in the opening Championship match . |
| 17 | Silva , 25 , was delighted to find himself with a gallery of waiters and farm-workers from Jersey 's 3,000-strong Portuguese community . |
| 18 | Behind the long black sweep of counter Sergeant Camb sat fanning himself with a newspaper , the sweat dripping down his forehead . |
| 19 | Instead of comparing himself with them and feeling satisfied , he compares himself with a boy who 's much better off financially . |
| 20 | But in his two lectures he contented himself with a couple of scattered references to " Apolline clarity " and tragedy 's — actually Shakespearean tragedy 's — " Dionysiac " quality . |
| 21 | On a more personal level , he concerned himself with a land bill for William Essex , who had married a Harcourt , acting as a feoffee for his Berkshire estate . |
| 22 | With such dreadful taste Lancaster deserved to be the murderer , Dexter told himself with a smile . |
| 23 | Morrissey armed himself with a self made shield of absolute and utter confidence . |
| 24 | It was normal , moreover , as in earlier generations , for a diplomat going to one of the more out-of-the-way capitals , if he expected to stay for any length of time , to equip himself with a mass of essentials which might be difficult or impossible to obtain at his destination . |
| 25 | Like his men , he has made a blanket-roll to carry immediate necessities rather than burdening himself with a blanket bag or other form of knapsack . |
| 26 | Like Cinderella , he told himself with a grin . |
| 27 | Warhurst described himself with a grin as ‘ versatile ’ and went on to say : ‘ I know Rovers have three top quality strikers in Alan Shearer , Mike Newell and Kevin Gallacher . |
| 28 | I would have thought Niki could take all these views of himself with a grain of salt . |
| 29 | Tynemouth went further ahead after the interval when Jonathan Thomson found himself with a scoring opportunity after a rare mistake by Lee . |
| 30 | He 's a perfect team player , too : how kind he was to allow Moustache Nightmare to cover himself with a race car and a spare last year , while Patrese had but one machine at his disposal . |