Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout it all , he keenly defends himself against the propaganda with which the minders assigned to foreign journalists bombard him . |
| 2 | In examining my own background it seems logical to refer to the findings of Selvini Palazzoli and Minuchin on the families of anorexics , but whereas Minuchin especially confines himself to the family ambience at the time of the onset of the disease , I should like to say a little more about the genesis of that family ambience . |
| 3 | Or , one might say , the Reeve 's Prologue is where the Reeve makes his confession , publicly , and thus frees himself from the charge of seeing motes in the eyes of others and ignoring a beam in his own : which is just the figure he ends his Prologue with in commenting upon the Miller . |
| 4 | The use of I in the paraphrase suggests moreover that it is the speaker who somehow sees himself before the infinitive event because it implies that he has not yet realized his desire . |
| 5 | If the semanticist takes the first tack , he soon finds himself in the business of adducing an apparently endless proliferation of senses of the simplest looking words . |
| 6 | He just settles himself into the cushion of the rear seat and waits for me to speak . |
| 7 | The former England amateur international , who still plays himself in the Bluebell Over 40 league on a Saturday morning , has persuaded several ex pros to come along , including former Sunderland and Ipswich forward Eric Gates , Hartlepool manager Alan Murray , former Newcastle and Sunderland centre half Jeff Clarke , former Middlesbrough defender Dickie Rooks and former Newcastle striker Alan Shoulder . |
| 8 | Nick Gillingham 's proudest moment was winning a silver medal at the Seoul Olympics almost 2 years ago , but it 's a sad perhaps frustrating fact that Gillingham still finds himself in the shadow of his greatest rival , Adrian Moorhouse . |
| 9 | It might be wise to include provisions ( Clause 28.01 ) for some form of substituted service to cover the case of a partner who deliberately absents himself from the firm , whether such absence is the ground for his expulsion or otherwise . |
| 10 | The work has voices in the first two movements , but is essentially for solo organ , dazzlingly played by Gaston Litaize , who clearly enjoys himself of the magnificent beast which lives in the church of St. Francois-Xavier in Paris . |
| 11 | Unable to hold the stage in any other way he set out to organise a ‘ popular demand ’ for immediate independence without trusteeship , and having succeeded beyond his expectations now finds himself in the position of having to deliver the goods or recede from the front of the political stage and lose all hope of fulfilling his personal ambitions . |
| 12 | Pete , who honed his career up at Hope Street in productions like John McGrath 's The Bofers Gun , now finds himself in the thick of more flak in the new movie , The Last of the Mohicans , which opened last night . |
| 13 | Yet when Cornwall pronounces him the new Earl of Gloucester , and orders him to seek his father out , Edmund has yet another layer of pretence at hand : Edmund 's perversion of such words as ‘ nature ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ , and ‘ blood ’ is grimly evident to us , but not to Cornwall — who may not understand those terms , in any case — and who now puts himself into the position of an adopted father to Edmund : ‘ I will lay trust upon thee ; and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love ’ ( 24f . ) . |
| 14 | He even persuades himself of the splendour . |
| 15 | Niki eats up a few places and then finds himself at the back of a bunch of five cars behind Prost , who is running second . |
| 16 | He then enjoys himself at the end of the book , looking to the future from various standpoints . |
| 17 | Nichetti once again casts himself as the noble little guy in a bewildering universe — more Buster Keaton than Woody Allen — this time dubbing sound effects on to animated features which gradually stray from their screens and absorb his entire body . |
| 18 | Where Federman and Sukenick have stressed the specifically linguistic dimensions to such disruption , Robbins once again casts himself in the role of entertainer , trickster and comic commentator . |