Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had rightly judged that it would have been unwise for him to associate himself with the movement of the Earl of Lancaster or with Rent 's conspiracy . |
| 2 | He aligned himself with the workers , the rebels at the barricades , with Zola and Michelet and the students of 1848 . |
| 3 | He aligned himself with the Social Christian Party for the 1990 elections , saying that Nicaragua should be free from the influence of the superpowers . |
| 4 | He aligned himself with the traditional view that the Scriptures describe unseen things by the form of visible things so as to stimulate reason in cognitive understanding , itself a spiritual reality which is an image of full contemplative knowledge . |
| 5 | On a more personal level , he concerned himself with a land bill for William Essex , who had married a Harcourt , acting as a feoffee for his Berkshire estate . |
| 6 | Simultaneously , he concerned himself with the idea that cities were necessary , not evil , but that ‘ without the life of the soil from which to draw its strength , the urban culture must lose its source of strength and rejuvenescence ’ . |
| 7 | One night , he found himself with a few other police enveloped in the hatred of a black township uprising . |
| 8 | He found himself with the duty of helping to make a vital decision for the Church of England at a moment in its destiny . |
| 9 | His sister 's death seemed to have affected him more deeply , though he bore himself with a kind of frightened dignity in front of his father . |
| 10 | Six years on , the family moved to Ugthorpe Lodge on the Whitby moors , a hotel with caravan site and smallholding where Mr Chance also had stables and where he involved himself with the Goathland Pony Club . |
| 11 | Like Cinderella , he told himself with a grin . |
| 12 | He busied himself with the electric kettle and a jar of instant coffee , and in a moment or two put the hot drink in front of her . |
| 13 | ‘ Mr Connon , ’ he said as he busied himself with the kettle and the jar of instant coffee , ‘ I did n't really have a chance last night to explain myself to you very fully . |
| 14 | He roused himself with an effort , sniffed and shook his head vigorously . |
| 15 | Thus , he acquainted himself with the meanings of the songs he heard them singing , songs of love and emigration ; with inheritances and alliances between these western chieftains ; with the size and topography of Raasay and its suitability for animal husbandry . |
| 16 | So there was a restlessness that could help explain his proneness to melancholia , and at the same time account for the extraordinary enthusiasm with which , in later life , he identified himself with the people of different parts of the Mediterranean coastline in turn : Greeks , Italians , Jews , Arabs . |
| 17 | Concerned , however , that these words might make him seem too frivolous , in the simple delight he obviously took in playing with his cat , he checks himself with the criticism that ‘ verily it may well be called an idle man 's pastime ’ . |
| 18 | Next time he went to sign on he armed himself with a photocopy of the relevant pages . |
| 19 | The heat haze rose from the ground as he flagellated himself with a cat o' nine chains . |
| 20 | He hid himself with the clothes again , jerking them about on their hangers . |
| 21 | The intense processing involved obviously exhausted too much of Gav 's thinly-stretch grey matter to allow speech in the near future , so he contented himself with a grunt and submerged again . |
| 22 | But in his two lectures he contented himself with a couple of scattered references to " Apolline clarity " and tragedy 's — actually Shakespearean tragedy 's — " Dionysiac " quality . |
| 23 | He cheered himself with the thought that there was not ‘ an idea I 've ever had that I have n't put down on paper . ’ |
| 24 | Instead of comparing himself with them and feeling satisfied , he compares himself with a boy who 's much better off financially . |
| 25 | If he surpassed himself with a full-scale mock-up of the ceiling for the Salla Romana with a snake-pit of interwoven flowers and exuberant garlands , he could be sure that a cursory glance by Ceauşescu would be followed by the demand , ‘ More flowers , more gold leaf . ’ |
| 26 | When he was able , he fed himself with the meal he 'd prepared earlier , and stripped off the heavy insulating robe to dress himself in Tech-Green drab . |
| 27 | He surrounds himself with a considered disarray of natural objects ; piles of logs for the open fire , wooden rustic chairs , a chinese screen and antique rugs thrown over the parquet floor . |
| 28 | He surrounds himself with an entourage of loyal courtiers , some from the store , others from the office , taking several at a time for convivial weekends of dog-walking , tennis and log fires at his country villa on the River Po — a sharp contrast to the rather gloomy , solitary week nights he spends in the industrial wasteland of the Via Borgonuovo . |
| 29 | He satisfied himself with a few words of hurried consultation during a House of Commons debate . |
| 30 | When obliged to venture out , he covered himself with a Morocco robe and mask , and wore six pairs of stockings along with several fur hats . |