Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRIAN HALL : ‘ At that particular moment in time we have a manager that has got himself into the semi-final of the FA Cup , he 's got the opportunity of reaching Wembley , he 's had a difficult time in the League , it 's been a traumatic season okay , then he 's told he needs triple by-pass surgery at the age of 39 . |
| 2 | As a divorcee , Docherty can no longer take communion and has distanced himself from the catholic faith , an institution he believes deserted him in his hour of need . |
| 3 | Nicholas Stavrogin has arrived during the summer months of 1870s , and has established himself as the one ‘ who might really be called the chief character of the novel ’ . |
| 4 | On reaching Arcady , he 'd attempted to call Zambia 's old apartment and had explained himself to the woman who now lived there . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | " And directly after this , at the beginning of Chapter 17 , there is another abrupt change of tone : [ 7 ] Captain Cuttle , in the exercise of that surprising talent for deep-laid and unfathomable scheming , with which ( as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity ) he sincerely believed himself to be endowed by nature , had gone to Mr Dombey 's house on the eventful Sunday , winking all the way as a vent for his superfluous sagacity , and had presented himself in the full lustre of the ankle-jacks before the eyes of Towlinson ( I ) . |
| 7 | Anyone who handled the King 's money was ‘ charged ’ with the revenues he had received or collected and had to acquit himself before the Barons of the Exchequer by showing what he had done with it . |