Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] himself [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie should have known the shysters when he saw them — but too often he was willing to identify himself with the craw-thumping brigade , allowing them to subvert his better , progressive instincts . |
| 2 | But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality . |
| 3 | It indicates that he is not content to confine himself to the small island of his own tradition and culture and consequently not recognize the significance of the spiritual insights of other religious traditions . |
| 4 | Mann considered these objective to be so important that in January 1897 he gave up the secretaryship of the Independent Labour Party which he had held since 1894 to devote himself to the continental agitation , especially in Rotterdam , Antwerp and Hamburg , which had been started in the previous year . |
| 5 | He drank when young and while still young drank a lot , challenging himself to knock off all comers , but most of all to align himself with the legendary drinking miners who could and did sweat it off down the pit while Richard had to force it off in games . |
| 6 | Towards the end of the third hour , a little man at the back of the great hall , a faithful apparatchik from the area of the Caspian Sea , was unable to contain himself at the unanticipated exposition of the enormities of Stalin . |
| 7 | I mean , he was able to put himself among the duped . |
| 8 | Only in his own pieces ( all transcriptions of other composer 's works ) is he able to stretch himself to the outer limits of his technique . |
| 9 | He was helpless to defend himself against the terrible gleaming weapon in the fist of the menacing black figure looming over him . |
| 10 | It seemed that Jason was keen to distance himself from the increasing danger of being known as the future Mr Minogue . |
| 11 | He knows , though , that with first choice Bruce Grobbelaar approaching full fitness after his hamstring trouble and James eager to impose himself in the top flight , that Souness faces a difficult choice . |