Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] himself [prep] [art] [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 | Yet Æthelred was not always militarily inactive , reluctant to see himself in a military light , or unwilling to make military preparations . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When Wharton had to relinquish his seat in Buckinghamshire on his elevation to the peerage in 1696 , he was unable to replace himself with a suitable man , and the by-election went in favour of a local Tory , Lord Cheyne . |
| 7 | He was less prominent in the action than William Craig and he felt sufficiently distanced from it to be able to absent himself for a few days in the first week of the strike when he went to Canada to attend a funeral . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the speaker is able to express himself in a limited fashion . |
| 9 | I mean , he was able to put himself among the duped . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Being adequately provided for , he was able to book himself into a downtown hotel which cost him three dollars per night , though he often failed to make it back to the hotel , finding the cosmopolitan and nocturnal life of the town there entirely to his liking : consecration dismantled ! |
| 12 | He knew he had performed well and he was able to present himself in the best possible aura , that of self-satisfaction , because Hopper gave him carte blanche to edit his own part on film . |
| 13 | Living at a time when the value of works of art in the market was one of taste and appreciation rather than of mere commerce , he was able to avail himself of an ample fortune to buy the finest specimens of the Fine Arts which came into the market . ’ |
| 14 | He was helpless to defend himself against the terrible gleaming weapon in the fist of the menacing black figure looming over him . |
| 15 | It seemed that Jason was keen to distance himself from the increasing danger of being known as the future Mr Minogue . |
| 16 | Belgion , a man who seemed to be equipped with a steam-boiler instead of a body , had criticized a remark of Eliot 's in After Strange Gods , namely that in order to study with thoroughness Hindu and Buddhist thought and the Sanskrit and Pali languages in which they were expounded , he would have been obliged to turn himself into an oriental . |
| 17 | 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 . |