Example sentences of "surround himself with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a man who , like Marius Steen , had risen from humble origins to immense wealth and had surrounded himself with all the symbols of the established aristocracy . |
| 2 | Chris Patten ( left ) and Michael Heseltine ( right ) : surrounding himself with such figures Major shows a measured approach |
| 3 | Surrounding himself with local knowledge was a form of entrenchment ; if you dig in and stare at a hill you can often persuade yourself you know what 's going on behind it . |
| 4 | His many-sided aesthetic interests led him to surround himself with first editions , Bristol glass , mother-of-pearl knick-knacks , and , above all , his notable collection of musical boxes ( later given to the Pitt Rivers Museum , Oxford ) . |
| 5 | The designer surrounded himself with exquisite objects — Chinese porcelain vases , a life-sized bronze reproduction of Donatello 's David , the paintings of Rousseau . |
| 6 | He surrounded himself with anti-Nazi German Jesuits , among them his secretary and his confessor , Augustine Bea . |