Example sentences of "[prep] himself [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll have it out himself with the Venetians . ’ |
| 2 | He then produced the £15 and counted it out himself on the corner of the table , not letting the chairman or anyone else do so . |
| 3 | Allen could look after himself in the forest . |
| 4 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |
| 5 | Quiet , never shouting about himself to the world . |
| 6 | Could he give them a few facts about himself for the company 's press release ? |
| 7 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
| 8 | As he was doing that , he saw the paragraph about himself in The Stage and planted his shoe over it . |
| 9 | On the contrary , to emphasise the personal and private nature of moral or immoral conduct is to emphasise the personal and private responsibility of the individual for his own actions , and this is a responsibility which a mature agent can properly be expected to carry for himself without the threat of punishment from the law . |
| 10 | Shakespeare 's technique , to let us into a secret that the hero will only discover for himself at the end , is a common one in playwriting and storytelling . |
| 11 | The student should now score the passage for himself on the lines indicated . |
| 12 | This was because human beings worked things out in their minds in terms of concepts and moral rules , and these concepts and rules were not things the individual made for himself on the spur of the moment . |
| 13 | De Gaulle engineered a majority for himself on the CFLN and promptly objected to Giraud 's claim to combine the functions of Commander-in-Chief with the co-presidency . |
| 14 | Max Gate , the house Hardy designed for himself on the edge of town , is stranded behind a new roundabout and it is difficult now to imagine him setting out from there to ride along the lanes with Kipling or H. G. Wells . |
| 15 | His prosperity is shown by the ‘ magnificent dwelling house ’ which he built for himself on the north Thames frontage immediately to the east of the Fleet canal . |
| 16 | After starting out with a Honda VF500 in ‘ 84 , Bradl made it to factory rider in just four and a half years , making a name for himself on the way as a man bursting with aggression . |
| 17 | He would , for instance , secretly buy 30,000 of a stock for himself on the account . |
| 18 | The cast and crew were situated in the picturesque summer tourist trap of St Ives where they virtually took over the comfortable olde-worlde Tregenna Castle Hotel , while Peckinpah rented a small cottage for himself on the moor . |
| 19 | In his latter years he created an elaborate water garden at the cottage ornée he had built for himself on the outskirts of Plymouth , and was wont to drive round the streets of the town in a gig disguised as a Roman war chariot , looking , in Wightwick 's words ‘ ( as far as his true English face and costume allowed ) like Ictinus of the Parthenon , ‘ out for a lark ’ . ’ |
| 20 | In Cranleigh Precision Engineering Ltd v Bryant Roskill J held that the defendant who had , whilst a director of the plaintiff company , been made aware of a patent held by a third party which affected the plaintiff 's products , could not justify his failure to disclose the existence of the patent to the plaintiffs and his subsequent acquisition of the patent for himself on the ground that it was public knowledge , for what he had misused was his confidential knowledge of the relationship of the information in the patent to the plaintiff 's products . |
| 21 | If the husband is purchasing a house for himself with the proceeds of sale of his interest in the matrimonial home , then , as he will have to commit himself to a contract in respect of his purchase , it is suggested that there should be a contract relating to the sale of his interest in the matrimonial home so that he is fully safeguarded . |
| 22 | George Albert Smith was later of course erm to come on and make a big name , a world name for himself as the inventor of the first colour process , a very simple , two-colour process , but it was invented by him in Brighton , and it was the first world colour process . |
| 23 | Before 1234 he had supervised the construction of a model dwelling-place for himself within the cathedral close , the profits from whose sale he later put towards Salisbury 's fabric fund . |
| 24 | But now , Carey knew , it was every man for himself against the past . |
| 25 | He knew that he would be rash to expect everyone to obey him all the time ; he had secured the Moghul throne for himself by the skill with which he had played off his brothers against one another , and he distrusted most of the people around him . |
| 26 | It was during the five years he spent in Orkney that he began to make a name for himself in the field of English-language studies ; he was also the writer of the ‘ Orcadian Boatman 's Song ’ . |
| 27 | Lewis complained that he could not see any personal relevance for himself in the story of Christ . |
| 28 | Their horses were saddled and waiting , their farewells to the prior and brothers already made , and Hugh just reaching for his bridle , when Nicol came trudging sturdily in at the gatehouse , soiled and bruised and hoisting himself along on a staff he had cut for himself in the forest . |
| 29 | In 1829–30 , like his father before him , he served as mayor of Kendal , and in addition to the house he had built for himself in the town ( c .1823 ) he had a country property in Lindale , Lancashire , which he inherited from his father , and he later built an occasional residence in nearby Grange-over-Sands . |
| 30 | In the summer of 1939 Boulestin left as usual to spend his holidays in the house he had built for himself in the Landes . |