Example sentences of "[verb] himself up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the summer of 1675 , in the course of Louis XIV 's Dutch War , he found himself up against the great imperial general Montecucculi , who in the previous year had outmanoeuvred Turenne to capture Bonn . |
| 2 | Charles made himself up for the new role , and dressed in the new costume . |
| 3 | He usually sleeps for a couple of days and then slowly builds himself up for the next trip . |
| 4 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 5 | When the war was seen to be lost , after some vacillation he delivered himself up to the Scottish army at Newark . |
| 6 | Engineer and motorbike enthusiast Terence Bird has set himself up as the sole European importer of Nanchang bikes . |
| 7 | Nigel tarted himself up for the two days before her visit . |
| 8 | Rincewind , coiling himself like a spring , gave a standing jump and grasped a beam , swinging himself up into the relative safety of the roof with a strength that amazed him . |
| 9 | So , in JUST LIKE A WOMAN ( Cert 15 ; General ) , it 's a bit of a relief when Gerald ( Adrian Pasdar ) finally admits he gets his kicks out of dressing as a woman — and proves the point by making himself up into the gorgeous Geraldine in front of her . |
| 10 | Replacing the shoebox but leaving the tell-tale sea of marbles , he stood on Vic 's bed and tried , without success , to jump and pull himself up to the small opening . |
| 11 | So , with one LP , Morrissey set himself up as the new Tom Robinson ? |
| 12 | He was born at Preston in 1732 and got little education ; he was apprenticed to a barber , and set himself up in the barbering trade at Bolton later . |