Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] himself [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claimed too that the Reeve is presented as indicting the Miller for a judgement he does not make , i.e. that he had criticized the Reeve for being over-ready to see himself as a priest , the agent of God 's punishment , through John 's naive readiness to see himself as a second Noah . |
| 2 | He Anglicized his name and a few years later he was being described as an accountant or merchant 's clerk ; a subsequent attempt to establish himself as a commission agent apparently failed . |
| 3 | In Jennings , above , the accused had a sheathknife to protect himself from a person with whom he had been quarrelling . |
| 4 | Vincent strained every nerve to turn himself into a draughtsman acceptable to the illustrated papers , and the strain showed . |
| 5 | The successful Peronist in San Luis , incumbent governor Alberto Rodríguez Saa , announced his intention to present himself as a candidate for the 1995 presidential elections . |
| 6 | So was it reasonable for the driver to step in and use his car to defend himself against a gang armed with lumps of concrete ? |
| 7 | Following a visit to London and Paris in 1849 he returned to Aberdeen to establish himself as a portrait miniaturist . |
| 8 | He never earned a degree , but an allowance from his mother gave him the financial independence to devote himself to a career as writer . |
| 9 | ‘ In the early 1990s there will be an opportunity to free himself from a role he does not want . ’ |
| 10 | If Burun 's refusal to place himself in a position of prominence by acting as Artai 's proposer was a subterfuge to disclaim his influence , then it was apparent that none of the Khans recognised it . |
| 11 | He seemed to think it evidence of a malignant fate that he had had the misfortune to link himself to a succession of mad women . |
| 12 | London was the place to prove himself as a choreographer , and he spent almost exactly the next third of his life there , fifteen years , doing that and much more besides . |
| 13 | That means Newry 's Errol Lutton , who got a late call to Poland after Ger Burns had to withdraw through injury , keeps his place , a further chance to establish himself as a regular in the international set-up . |
| 14 | Simon now took his only chance to measure himself against a Formula One driver . |
| 15 | It told him to come to the court on a certain day to defend himself before a Commissioner and the man who said he owed him money . |
| 16 | It would appear that an obligation of confidence may arise in relation to information which is overheard but it seems that this will only be the case where the recipient has used surreptitious means to put himself in a position to overhear the information . |
| 17 | Whatever else he might be , instinct told her Nicolo Sabatini was not a man to force himself on a woman . |
| 18 | ANDERS NEILSEN , the English National champion , staged a fighting comeback against Finland 's Robert Liljeqist to assure himself of a medal and join three Danes in today 's men 's singles semi-finals at the Pilkington Glass European Badminton Championships in Glasgow . |
| 19 | He 's a perfect team player , too : how kind he was to allow Moustache Nightmare to cover himself with a race car and a spare last year , while Patrese had but one machine at his disposal . |
| 20 | Clause 8 provides the necessary precautionary provision to prevent the buyer claiming that he has the right to intellectual property arising out of any development work which the seller has had to effect in order to put himself in a position to supply the goods under the contract . |
| 21 | It was not in the king 's interest to associate himself with a movement which at most would merely ensure the removal from power of one magnate clique and its replacement by another . |