Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] himself with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had inched his way to the dark bathroom , and stood slumped over the sink , feeling lost , depersonalized , and trying to soothe or tether himself with the running water . |
| 2 | In Wrexham grandfather had been an active Gladstonian Liberal , and concerned himself with the temperance movement and local government . |
| 3 | He gave support to William Wallace in his fight for Scottish independence but deserted him and aligned himself with the English King Edward I who was trying to dominate Scotland . |
| 4 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |
| 5 | He walked round the back of the car and busied himself with the boot . |
| 6 | ‘ When the State usurps the functions of the family ’ … and consoled himself with the thought that he never pontificated unless he was drunk . |
| 7 | He nodded , smiling thinly , and fanned himself with the now redundant carpet-beater . |
| 8 | The President had got himself into bed and covered himself with the sheet . |
| 9 | Desmond Haynes ' first taste of Test captaincy was not a very happy experience , going for a duck in the first innings , dropping a catch and demeaning himself with the sledging as the match slipped away . |
| 10 | Brundle is , however , merely warming up the brakes and tyres and re-acquainting himself with the lines of his old home track . |
| 11 | Ramsay was less than delighted with the task , but consoled himself with the thought that at least the journey south would take them by Dunbar Castle again , and a call thereat would be possible . |
| 12 | Lucien was n't quite sure how he felt about being a second choice , but comforted himself with the knowledge that Garimel had undoubtedly been bought by a less lenient household . |
| 13 | Here , for example , is an extract from a memorandum to a US delegate to the Paris Peace Conference by Lawrence of Arabia , who had led the Arabs to victory while torturing himself with the secret knowledge of his part in their betrayal : ‘ On 1 October ( 1918 ) , the people of Beyrout , in emulation of the Damascenes , turned on their Turkish garrison of 700 men , and took them prisoner … |