Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] himself with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walked round the back of the car and busied himself with the boot . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The President had got himself into bed and covered himself with the sheet . |
| 4 | Brundle is , however , merely warming up the brakes and tyres and re-acquainting himself with the lines of his old home track . |
| 5 | 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 . |