Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [verb] himself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When such a man came down from Olympus and applied himself to the problems of Africa , his voice was heard . |
| 2 | He summoned all the archbishops and bishops who were with him in Sicily and flung himself to the ground at their feet . |
| 3 | Charles greeted Joanne and helped himself to a large Scotch . |
| 4 | Once he had arrived at the Southern Capital , he had proclaimed his loyalty to the old gods loudly and publicly , disowning the Aten and throwing himself on the mercy of the priests of Amun , who even then were growing bold as the revolutionary pharaoh lost his grip both on reality and his empire . |
| 5 | When Knox became a fellow of King 's in 1909 he inherited the then deceased Headlam 's work on Herodas and applied himself to the fragmentary texts of the Herodas papyri in the British Museum . |
| 6 | He moved to Glasgow and established himself as a provision merchant , but within a few years decided that there were better prospects in the iron trade . |
| 7 | Lorton passed the bag to Dougal and balanced himself on the sill , with his legs outside the house . |
| 8 | Roy Bradford who had been a member of the Executive stood as an Ulster Unionist in East Belfast but without the support of UUUC , and Tom Conaty who was well known as Chairmen of the Central Citizens Defence Committee ( CCDC ) stood as an Independent in West Belfast and identified himself as a Catholic representative . |
| 9 | There he made a clean sweep with the past by changing his surname from Kaye to Kasmin and launching himself on a career as a poet . |