Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] himself [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To explain the-timidity of these people , we need look no further than the example of Arthur Jensen , who , after devoting himself to the study of educationally significant individual differences , is declared by the press to be an advocate of segregated schooling for ‘ poor and black children ’ . |
| 2 | Wally was awarded the job for his bravery in receiving extensive brain surgery after years of concussing himself on the crossbar . |
| 3 | Mr Battleaxe is in danger of lancing himself in the foot : in the sentence quoted from my letter , he inserts the word ‘ sic ’ — inside curved brackets . |
| 4 | It 's changed partly because Stalin 's er strategy in China has been shown to be a disaster and Stalin is trying to cover his tracks and most effective way of protecting himself against the criticism and the unpopularity which is likely to come from the failure is by insisting that the strategy was right all along and the revolution is about to triumph . |
| 5 | Part of Lewis 's discovery of himself as a writer was the discovery of a means of presenting himself to the reader . |
| 6 | And Chancellor Norman Lamont was last night accused of sunning himself as the economy sinks into deeper gloom . |
| 7 | There is nothing clear-cut or standardised about it ; but one may envisage ( and sometimes see quite clearly in real life ) the difference in effect between that of divorce when the child is still at the stage of total reliance on the mother , perhaps with fierce submerged conflict with the male parent , and that taking place when the boy is at the age of modelling himself on the father and establishing male identity through him . |
| 8 | Is it not also a fact that in this case it is clear that , if the Court of Appeal believes that he had no intention of flouting a court order and of putting himself above the law , that should be good enough for the rest of us ? |
| 9 | " The President has done a good job of putting himself in the position where Arctic drilling is seen as patriotic " , she said . |
| 10 | It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels . |
| 11 | In his memoirs , Wilson makes no bones of placing himself in the line of succession of Baldwin , Churchill and Macmillan . |
| 12 | But he 'd shown definite signs of resigning himself to the situation — until her arrival downstairs after breakfast . |
| 13 | He is a star who takes himself seriously and his method-acting technique of thinking himself into the part is legendary . |
| 14 | Since most of the beginner 's forensic work will be in county courts and magistrates ' courts , he should make a special point of familiarising himself with the procedure and powers of these courts . |
| 15 | Scandal came easy to him , it was simply a way of life , a way of raising himself above the ordinariness of his upbringing in Fife . |
| 16 | Three minutes into the second-half the non-Leaguers ' obligatory fireman , Mottashed , instead of shooting himself in the foot , set fire to himself with a jittery own goal and Loram shortly made it 3-1 , deader than dead . |
| 17 | Seb realised immediately that Boz was seeking trouble as a means of purging himself of the anger and frustration that was bubbling inside him . |
| 18 | ‘ You had indeed , ’ Feargal said with an ironic little bow before seating himself in the armchair opposite his mother . |
| 19 | Now he was naked too beside her and making pantomime bows to his guests before launching himself into the night . |
| 20 | In establishing himself in the north , Gloucester was able to build upon existing foundations . |
| 21 | In establishing himself in the north , Gloucester was able to build upon existing foundations . |
| 22 | The ultimate accolade caps a dramatic rise for Platt who was rejected by Manchester United before establishing himself in the game with Crewe , then joining Taylor at Aston Villa and then going onto Juventus via Bari . |
| 23 | Former French Open champion Walton goes into the third round of the £618,000 championship in second place , two strokes behind Swede Mats Lanner , and 36 good holes away from saving himself from the trip that no player wants to make . |
| 24 | The only mishap was that in forcing himself through the gap , he nudged the twig and the falling window struck him on the head . |
| 25 | To get the best shots of the Falcon 's descent into an American football stadium Steve set up cameras inside the Hercules plane and attached to the freefallers themselves before positioning himself on the ground . |
| 26 | Part of Franco 's concern , in assuring himself of the backing of his staunchest allies , stemmed from the resurgence in support for Don Juan visible in the 1950s . |
| 27 | Despite what may have appeared as the rejuvenation of an all-but-lost career , Solly is still a long way from committing himself to the marathon . |
| 28 | At last he succeeded in hauling himself over the boundary wall to the solid ground that marked the edge of Old Ashfield property . |
| 29 | He sat for more than an hour alone before dragging himself to the room , shutting the doors loudly behind him as he went . |
| 30 | Though Larry does not ultimately succeed in reintegrating himself into the world , his efforts to come to terms with the consequences of his experience in the death world of his hallucination indicate a potential mode of interpersonal relation that would provide the basis for a more ‘ sane ’ existence . |