Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] himself the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the many who took upon himself the suffering of his parents was Norbert . |
| 2 | The public man who earned for himself the title ‘ Apostle of Pembrokeshire ’ must have been tenacious and fearless , like most of the Methodist revivalists . |
| 3 | Christian holiness involves both devotion and ethics ; it springs from allegiance to Jesus , who embodies in himself the ideal of human conduct . |
| 4 | However , Goody 's claims for the ‘ consequences ’ of literacy are couched in such a way that they do require it : he imposes upon himself the obligation to establish that the Greeks really did achieve the distinction of ‘ myth ’ from ‘ history ’ if his claims for literacy are to be credible . |
| 5 | Why does he arrogate to himself the claim to know more about patient care than all those professionals ? |
| 6 | Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is |
| 7 | He wraps around himself the dusty patchwork cloak of his invisibility and the heralds gallop hither and yon in vain . |
| 8 | In some forests he took for himself the profits of the minor pleas : a thirteenth-century Cumberland jury swore that if any man ‘ furtively ’ felled an oak in Inglewood Forest , then the warden 's duty was ‘ to attach his body according to the law of the forest ’ to answer before the Justice of the Forest at the Forest Eyre . |
| 9 | On April 1-2 he saw for himself the effects of internecine war when he toured the Natal townships ; on April 5 , after his meeting with de Klerk , it was announced that talks would take place in the near future about the remaining obstacles to full negotiations . |
| 10 | He felt in himself the freedom that Minch , in her whispered final words , had seemed to begin to forget , and he remembered the words of his parents : ‘ One day you will understand the nature of the power of those eagles … those eagles of Callanish … honour their power , believe in them … ’ |