Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] himself [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made an absolute mastery of hiding himself behind the personalities he created . ’ |
| 2 | In terms of identifying himself with the peoples suffering it was a disaster . |
| 3 | So Suger persuaded Louis to begin the task — not completed till the reign of Philip Augustus — of extricating himself from the bonds of homage which bound him to various bishops in the realm . |
| 4 | If he is afraid of compromising himself in the eyes of Messrs Goupil and Co by keeping in touch with me , is his position with those gentlemen so shaky and unstable that he is obliged to be so careful ? ’ |
| 5 | Do we think of the young literary man as choosing , in a sense , to be a student of literature and to turn his energies to nothing — except perhaps earning his bread — to nothing except fitting himself for the poems we are going to write , or do we think of poetry as in a sense the bi-product of a life seriously dedicated to other matters ? |