Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] himself with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight was by way of a rehearsal to familiarize himself with the place , make final arrangements , and tell the landlord sufficient of their plans to ensure that there was no unforeseen interference . |
| 2 | It was so incongruous to hear the Maggot aligning himself with the forces of law that I was forced to ask the question . |
| 3 | Another general consoled himself with the thought that ‘ as the rebels are flesh and blood as well as us … they must , while this bad season lasts , suspend all operations ’ , but was rapidly proved wrong . |
| 4 | The student positions himself with the right foot forward , and the body weight evenly distributed . |
| 5 | On the basis of the principle of identity on the other hand , no subjection of nature can take place , since man identifies himself with the processes of nature . |
| 6 | On 18 October , nearly two weeks before the killing , he watched and recorded an episode of the show in which a youth injects himself with the drug Temazepam and suffers an overdose . |
| 7 | At the beginning of April , Sheikh Saud Nasir al-Sabah , a member of the royal family and Kuwait 's ambassador to America , visited Phoenix in order to reacquaint himself with the Phoenician . |
| 8 | The narrator aligns himself with the character by various means , including the use of concept metaphors , syntactic structure ( Adriaens 1970 , Halliday 1971 , Lee 1976 ) and underlexicalisation ( the use of a restricted vocabulary : see Fowler 1981 , 1986 ) . |
| 9 | In order to ingratiate himself with the populace , he rebuilt the Temple of Jerusalem on a hitherto unprecedented scale . |
| 10 | The lyric poet ( in general ) is a composer first and foremost and , as such , a Dionysiac artist who surrenders his egoistic subjectivity to identify himself with the true metaphysical reality and reflect it in music . |
| 11 | Nobody 's bothered about Pike or how or why he went through Mr Marr 's pockets , cleaned out his ID , took his keys and squatted in the house to acquaint himself with the principles of ufology . |