Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] himself with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can any man who identifies himself with the British world of letters , however independent and tolerant he may be , write a fair-minded book about Pound ? |
| 2 | We should now be in a position to answer Herbert Schniedau 's question : ‘ Can any man who identifies himself with the British world of letters … write a fair-minded book about Pound ? ’ |
| 3 | The man who associated himself with the Imperial ideas , and who remains for ever identified with them , was Baron Haussmann . |
| 4 | He had rightly judged that it would have been unwise for him to associate himself with the movement of the Earl of Lancaster or with Rent 's conspiracy . |
| 5 | He aligned himself with the workers , the rebels at the barricades , with Zola and Michelet and the students of 1848 . |
| 6 | He aligned himself with the Social Christian Party for the 1990 elections , saying that Nicaragua should be free from the influence of the superpowers . |
| 7 | He aligned himself with the traditional view that the Scriptures describe unseen things by the form of visible things so as to stimulate reason in cognitive understanding , itself a spiritual reality which is an image of full contemplative knowledge . |
| 8 | Simultaneously , he concerned himself with the idea that cities were necessary , not evil , but that ‘ without the life of the soil from which to draw its strength , the urban culture must lose its source of strength and rejuvenescence ’ . |
| 9 | He found himself with the duty of helping to make a vital decision for the Church of England at a moment in its destiny . |
| 10 | Six years on , the family moved to Ugthorpe Lodge on the Whitby moors , a hotel with caravan site and smallholding where Mr Chance also had stables and where he involved himself with the Goathland Pony Club . |
| 11 | He busied himself with the electric kettle and a jar of instant coffee , and in a moment or two put the hot drink in front of her . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Connon , ’ he said as he busied himself with the kettle and the jar of instant coffee , ‘ I did n't really have a chance last night to explain myself to you very fully . |
| 13 | Thus , he acquainted himself with the meanings of the songs he heard them singing , songs of love and emigration ; with inheritances and alliances between these western chieftains ; with the size and topography of Raasay and its suitability for animal husbandry . |
| 14 | So there was a restlessness that could help explain his proneness to melancholia , and at the same time account for the extraordinary enthusiasm with which , in later life , he identified himself with the people of different parts of the Mediterranean coastline in turn : Greeks , Italians , Jews , Arabs . |
| 15 | Concerned , however , that these words might make him seem too frivolous , in the simple delight he obviously took in playing with his cat , he checks himself with the criticism that ‘ verily it may well be called an idle man 's pastime ’ . |
| 16 | He hid himself with the clothes again , jerking them about on their hangers . |
| 17 | He cheered himself with the thought that there was not ‘ an idea I 've ever had that I have n't put down on paper . ’ |
| 18 | When he was able , he fed himself with the meal he 'd prepared earlier , and stripped off the heavy insulating robe to dress himself in Tech-Green drab . |
| 19 | He comforted himself with the fleeting thought that at least he had met Sir James Selkirk , who had found Alexander III 's corpse , and wryly concluded he would question him if the opportunity presented itself . |
| 20 | He comforted himself with the saying of Uncle Jan — ‘ the devil is never so black as he is painted ’ — and dreamed of what he might accomplish in the company of such a woman , in collaboration with her soft femaleness . |
| 21 | He identifies himself with the prophets of the Old Testament in addressing contemporary life , and echoes St Paul when he sees himself keeping the streams of doctrine pure : ‘ For I am inquisitive in the Lord , and defend the philosophy of the scripture against vain deceit ’ ( A130 ) . |
| 22 | It was to be another seven years before Franklin returned to his first love as commander of the Erebus on his most famous — and fatal — mission to find the legendary north-west passage from the polar seas to the north Pacific ; until then he occupied himself with the social and moral improvement of the colony under his charge . |
| 23 | He astonished himself with the reply , giving not Estabrook 's address , but that of another place entirely . |
| 24 | ‘ … he conducted himself with the utmost propriety … |
| 25 | Off the field , he conducted himself with the same composure and dignity as he did whenever he pulled on the white shirt of England or the claret and blue of West Ham . |