Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The section does not specifically empower the policeman to give directions as to how the actor should conduct himself in the future ( as by leaving the spot ) . |
| 2 | He acknowledges that before a contemplative is ready , like Moses , to climb the mountain , he must prepare himself by the time-honoured Western disciplines of Lectio , Meditatio and Oratio — study of scripture , meditation and prayer — but he tells his readers that other authors will tell them all they need to know about these . |
| 3 | He should think himself into the position of the other person , whether in-house or customer , and try to anticipate his approach and reactions . |
| 4 | He should throw himself at the Doctor 's back , grapple with him , break the machinery at which he was working . |
| 5 | He must free himself from the control of any established church and its priests and instead subordinate them to the State . |
| 6 | He should confine himself to the questions put to him . |
| 7 | It simply did not , and does not , offer a framework on which to hang a convincing story … the geographer , when he analyses the material properties of the man-environment systems , must base himself on the central functions of that system , rather than on the traditional divisions of physical geography . |
| 8 | Where NEWSFLASHes name a member of the department as a contact , the person should familiarise himself with the subject matter and have readily available those to whom reference may be made in order to progress the matter . |
| 9 | Perhaps he should refresh himself with the facts . |
| 10 | For an instant , Jimmy wondered whether he should hurl himself at the plate-glass windows . |
| 11 | It seemed inevitable after this that he should take himself to the nearest fish and chip shop to eat his supper . |
| 12 | His Prince Hal is never a roaring boy : he sits hunched or sprawled , with dark unwinking eyes : he hopes to be amused by his bully companions , but the eyes constantly muse beyond them into the time when he must steady himself for the crown . |
| 13 | Such behaviour did not recommended itself to another , more discreet , influence on Leonard during those undergraduate years : Professor F.R. Scott , later Dean of the Faculty of Law , presently , while Leonard swithered and swayed as to whether he should commit himself to the arts or commerce , his lecturer in law . |
| 14 | First , however , he must prove himself in the hardest job of his life . |
| 15 | The right hon. Gentleman must address himself to the new situation which is developing and in which there will be a single currency . |
| 16 | Kemalpasazade sought the advice of Mueyyedzade who counselled him to feign acceptance of Hacihasanzade 's proposal ; and when , on the next day , the latter petitioned the sultan , Bayezid II , to appoint Kemalpasazade to a kadilik , Mueyyedzade intervened , speaking highly of Kemalpasazade 's abilities and asking that he not be wasted in a kadilik but rather that he be given the vacant Taslik medrese so that he might busy himself with the pursuit of learning . |
| 17 | In his commentary on Psalm 136:7 he observed that the Holy Spirit ‘ had no intention to teach astronomy ’ but had used popular language ‘ that none might shelter himself under the pretext of obscurity . ’ |
| 18 | He might lose himself in the books sometimes , but he might find the Key there , too . |
| 19 | In doing so he might find himself in the company of evolutionary epistemologists such as Riedl ( 1979 ) , whose over-arching theory of life as an ‘ erkenntnisgewinnender prozess ’ seems to require a unitary notion of knowledge or information , information that can be stored in a genome at one end of the evolutionary spectrum , as well as be expressed , at the other end , by scientific theories that make the world a less strange place to live in . |
| 20 | if you were buried alive , I mean , Uncle Nat when he used , when he was in , in Uncle Nat when he was out in the war , he used to come back home and he 'd only to hear a siren and he 'd throw himself on the floor |
| 21 | Sir Robert Carey , Warden of the English Middle March , had been in London visiting the queen , but had prudently arranged for relays of horses to be ready for him between the capital and Edinburgh , so that he could ingratiate himself with the King of Scots by being the first to arrive with the news that he was now King of England also . |
| 22 | He could picture himself at the court of King Louis , accepting the thanks of his grateful monarch . |
| 23 | He could see himself in the garden with Fraulein Simonis , investigating those dark eyes at closer quarters . |
| 24 | Frankie wriggled free so that he could remove himself from the confrontation . |
| 25 | Furthermore , should the specified remedial works be carried out , and the odour emission continue , in any further proceedings , in respect of a statutory nuisance within s.92(1) ( c ) or s.92(1) ( d ) , the odour emitter could avail himself of the defence of best practicable means provided by s.94(4) and s.94(5) respectively . |
| 26 | He had mistakenly believed that total retirement from first-class cricket was necessary before he could avail himself of the pension fund for West Indies Test cricketers . |
| 27 | Give Ray half a chance and he 'd blame himself for the invention of gunpowder . ’ |
| 28 | Once in he could lose himself among the excited household , and never be in one place long enough to be an object of suspicion , until he could find a means of encountering Ralf Isambard alone . |
| 29 | Accounts also tell how he used to lock himself in the church all night . |
| 30 | Richard , he said , was deeply offended that anyone should think he would lower himself to the depths of duping the editor of Music Week . |