Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] himself [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a time Malins regarded himself as a Liberal Unionist , but he made policy toward drink the only basis for supporting parliamentary candidates . |
| 2 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 3 | On the set , Dustin cast himself as the sensible person , whereas Mia was busy ‘ talking to the spirit of Mozart ’ , perhaps under the influence of André Previn ( still married to Dory Previn ) , the conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra , with whom she had recently fallen in love . |
| 4 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 5 | Cunningham detached himself from the British game negotiating a £1 million transfer to Real Madrid in 1979 , the same year in which Maurice Hope of Antigua emulated Dixon , Turpin , Bassey and Conteh by winning a world boxing title . |
| 6 | Hilton addressed himself to the practical situation of his friend who felt himself torn by the demands of the active life impinging on his desire to pursue contemplation , and helps by showing that these two terms , so often used as opposites to refer to a manner of living , either as a professed religious or as a man of affairs , take their fundamental meaning from different inner conditions . |
| 7 | These were years of growth in power and status for the skilled unions of mid-Victorian Britain , and Applegarth established himself among the leading union personalities of his day . |
| 8 | His predecessor , Centwine , abdicated on his conversion to enter a monastery , but of the details of the process by which Caedwalla established himself over the western Saxons nothing is known . |
| 9 | Cornelius seated himself in an exquisite chair before a mahogany partners ' desk . |
| 10 | Haile Selassie seated himself on a crimson throne , and shortly afterwards the Empress took her place on a smaller throne . |
| 11 | Like the majority of his contemporaries , Levin found himself in the vaguest position in regard to religion . |
| 12 | Shortly after his arrival in England , Wordsworth found himself in an impossible moral position . |
| 13 | ITV 's Crime Monthly star Paul Ross found himself on the wrong side of the law after hitting a cyclist as he drove his car on a roundabout near London 's Waterloo station , a Westminster court heard . |
| 14 | Cornelius found himself in the uncluttered office of Mister Arthur Kobold . |
| 15 | Simon imagined himself as a successful salesman . |
| 16 | According to the Legend — the propaganda of a papacy that by this time was endeavouring to assert its independence of the emperor — on the eighth day after his conversion , the Emperor Constantine divested himself of the imperial symbols , prostrated himself before Pope Sylvester and laid down his crown . |
| 17 | Knowing that it would annoy Geoffrey , Anthony braced himself for the ensuing argument . |
| 18 | Having outlived Dean and Adams , Hopper indulged himself during the early seventies in autobiographical ego trips that nobody went to see like The Last Movie and The American Dreamer . |
| 19 | FORMER town crier Mike Chittenden turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |
| 20 | The photographic section on the camp was not very busy , having no aerial photos of enemy territory to decipher any more , and one of the photographic LACs got himself onto a good thing by setting himself up taking portraits , mostly of Waafs but a few airmen too . |
| 21 | Ramsay ensconced himself in the upper storey of the mill building , where he could gain as wide a view as possible . |
| 22 | In this speech , Mr Patten confirmed himself as the leading exponent in the Cabinet of a traditional Toryism owing nothing to Mrs Thatcher . |
| 23 | Even more so than Aethelfrith , Eadwine established himself as a Humbrian king . |
| 24 | Joshua Morris submitted himself to the first of the day 's body-searches . |
| 25 | Second seed Sampras established himself as the odds-on favourite to win his second US Open title with a 6–7 7–6 6–1 6–1 victory . |
| 26 | In the Champion Hurdle , which he won at 50-1 and in the Sandeman Hurdle at Liverpool , where at 10-1 he gave weight and a beating to some of the best hurdlers in training , Beech Road established himself as an outstanding champion , and although he did not win the Charles Heidsieck Champagne Bula Hurdle on Saturday , he confirmed his position at the top of the tree . |
| 27 | Despite his obscure origins Warltire established himself as a fashionable itinerant lecturer on chemistry and a supplier of laboratory chemicals . |
| 28 | Worse , although Thornton knew that Hayling saw himself as a potential chief executive , he demanded that the business side of the paper be immediately put under the direction of ‘ an upfront businessman with a solid track record ’ . |
| 29 | In 1964 Mr Wilson presented himself as a radical figure , but by 1974 he was comparing himself to a family doctor , and hoped , in his own words , ‘ to achieve … peace and quiet for the country ’ . |
| 30 | Richard Baxter 1615–1691 ) during fourteen years of pastoral ministry at Kidderminster gave himself to the pastoral care of some 800 families . |