Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] himself [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
| 3 | Schmidt suddenly found himself in the space between them , his hand outstretched for the lock . |
| 4 | After all , Changez was needed in the shop even more urgently now that Anwar had so enfeebled himself on the Gandhi-diet in order to get Changez to Britain in the first place . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Lindsay Crosby : 51 , youngest son of the singer Bing Crosby , found dead in his Los Angeles home after apparently shooting himself in the head with a smallbore rifle . |
| 7 | That Pericles ' maternal relatives , the noble family of the Alkmaionidai , were enemies of Themistokles ( as they certainly were is no objection to this view : Pericles ' father had already distanced himself from the Alkmaionidai by the time of his ostracism in 484 ( Ath . |
| 8 | The ideal needs integrity , however , for a citizen can not treat himself as the author of a collection of laws that are inconsistent in principle , nor can he see that collection as sponsored by any Rousseauian general will . |
| 9 | Despite the fact that he had not committed himself to the rising until the last moment , he was quickly consolidating the initiative he had taken in Morocco and was emerging as its sole leader . |
| 10 | But NoS was more like a racing power-boat , and Horsley soon found himself in the position of a water-skier rather than a captain . |
| 11 | He was attracted by an advertisement for a ‘ lab boy ’ at the then University College and soon found himself in the office of the Registrar , Mr Hedley Pickbourne . |
| 12 | Gaston VII of Béarn thus cast himself in the role of his daughter 's protector against the territorial ambitions of Edward 's seneschal , which were soon to lead to Grilly 's dismissal from his post . |
| 13 | That was how he worked , but in this case he could not free himself of the notion that although Francis was the victim he might not be the central figure . |
| 14 | ‘ And I shall tell you , my Lord Coroner , how Edmund Brampton , steward to Sir Thomas Springall , did not hang himself in the garret of that house in Cheapside ! ’ |
| 15 | And if King Fahd refuses to have them there , then he can no longer present himself as the guardian , on behalf of the Muslim world , of the holy places . |
| 16 | I hope that he now applies himself to them , because he has not applied himself to the rest of his portfolio . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | By the time Edward III finally divested himself of the Templar lands , in 1338 , he had already resumed the alien priories for the duration of the war and was thus compensated for any losses resulting . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Luke would have said that politically he stood way to the left of his mother and way , way to the left of his father , but somehow he could not reconcile himself to the thought of his mother stocking shelves in Pricewell 's . |
| 21 | has already crapped himself about the visit cause extra work of course but er the er however we should er revert maybe we 'll keep an eye on the schedule and things er but we we need to tie it up tight so we do n't get a cos I mean what 's being said now in the corridors of power is that the schedule is totally sales driven and it 's the sales department that 's put it together , I am only the administrator , I only I d I completely take my orders from the sales department quote unquote in front of everybody at the management meeting . |
| 22 | It would be stupid to say that there are no egos , there 's always been a push and pull and there always will be , ’ explains Burgess , coolly positioning himself within the team framework — the intelligent old pop heads and firebrand upstart combination that makes The Charlatans devilish in Brit pop terms . |
| 23 | It would be stupid to say that there are no egos , there 's always been a push and pull and there always will be , ’ explains Burgess , coolly positioning himself within the team framework — the intelligent old pop heads and firebrand upstart combination that makes The Charlatans devilish in Brit pop terms . |
| 24 | The location of the offence can be proved by the officer in the case to show that the offender could not avail himself of the dwelling defence under section 5(2) and ( 3 ) . |
| 25 | That gave him the chance to exercise one of his talents , as a teacher , but he was also a bit of a musician , and soon established himself as the organist at the parish church in Holloway . |
| 26 | ‘ I saw him when I went down to make myself a cup of tea , just letting himself out the door he was . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He must get it right today , however , if he is not to land himself with the label of being one of the best horses never to win a Gold Cup . |
| 29 | He has been convicted of crime , and we shall assume for the moment that he has not behaved himself within the meaning of these words . |
| 30 | Baroness Hooper 's letter states on the first page with regard to student loans : ‘ Students are not obliged to take up a loan if they do not need to do so and indeed Jeffrey has not availed himself of the facility . ’ |