Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] himself in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had determined not to exonerate himself in the course of his conversation with Mrs Mallory , and he had held grimly to that resolution . |
| 2 | He liked some music but generally was n't musical and was always slightly put off to find himself in the company of those who were . |
| 3 | To many Churchill was not so much a buccaneer as a straightforward pirate , a political outcast who skated on thin ice deliberately to keep himself in the public eye , a man who polished brilliant and wounding phrases that tacitly suggested himself as the alternative should his jeremiads turn out true . |
| 4 | There they gathered , the employee who lacks employment , the faithless priest , the investor about to hang himself in the expectation of plenty , the physician who will not be able to heal herself , the director who lacks all direction , the historian who denies the existence of history , the Jewish scholar of early Renaissance Christian iconography , the deaf man who hears voices , the woman about to be taken in adultery . |
| 5 | He knows exactly how to present himself in the light best calculated to deceive . |