Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cast and crew were situated in the picturesque summer tourist trap of St Ives where they virtually took over the comfortable olde-worlde Tregenna Castle Hotel , while Peckinpah rented a small cottage for himself on the moor . |
| 2 | He knew that he would be rash to expect everyone to obey him all the time ; he had secured the Moghul throne for himself by the skill with which he had played off his brothers against one another , and he distrusted most of the people around him . |
| 3 | De Gaulle engineered a majority for himself on the CFLN and promptly objected to Giraud 's claim to combine the functions of Commander-in-Chief with the co-presidency . |
| 4 | Before 1234 he had supervised the construction of a model dwelling-place for himself within the cathedral close , the profits from whose sale he later put towards Salisbury 's fabric fund . |
| 5 | The fact that he also made a little money for himself in the process was considered only reasonable by the majority of fans . |
| 6 | He would , for instance , secretly buy 30,000 of a stock for himself on the account . |
| 7 | Metaphor is a perspective which re-figures the world and the person 's experience of himself in the world . |
| 8 | Lewis complained that he could not see any personal relevance for himself in the story of Christ . |
| 9 | The student should now score the passage for himself on the lines indicated . |
| 10 | Though Lewis is said to have found the task of writing these letters morally exhausting — entailing as it did the ceaseless identification of himself with the malign and diabolical point of view — their great strength is that , rather like a dramatic monologue by Browning , they reveal the speaker without succumbing to his terrible outlook . |
| 11 | The mature glider pilot would never hesitate to make a fool of himself in the interests of safety . |
| 12 | Man goes out into the world and brings back what a family needs to survive but he does n't find a reflection of himself in the home as a woman does . ’ |
| 13 | Two hours later , full of beer and bravado , Harry contemplated a reflection of himself in the mirror behind the bar of the Glue pot Inn and calculated that , even when sobriety had returned to drain away his courage , he would not change his mind . |
| 14 | Drinks with strange women after the show fitted well into the fantasy of himself as the big West End star that the night 's performance had engendered . |
| 15 | May the Lord enrich and increase your witness to the Truth about Himself in the indifferent society around you . |
| 16 | The New Religious Right in North America eschew humanism when it threatens the fundamental truths of God 's revelation of himself in the sacred scriptures ( at least as they understand them ) . |
| 17 | If we try to identify the media pressed into the service of God 's revelation of himself in the Bible , there is an astonishing variety . |
| 18 | Is not this how we see God revealed in the record of Himself in the Bible ? |
| 19 | He sat and squinted through watering eyes at a coloured , enlarged picture of himself on the wall ahead of him . |
| 20 | When giving interviews to the press Hauser liked to paint a picture of himself as the company 's father figure . |
| 21 | In discussion of the proposal to Islamicize Libyan law , both old and young took their turn at the microphone , the older men serious , sometimes passionate , arguing both sides : they set their approval of particular measures — the prohibition of alcohol , for example — against their fear of further state interference in religious affairs , derived from unstated resentment of Qaddafi 's arrogation to himself of the power to determine what Islam might be . |
| 22 | The last thing she wanted was to be a pawn between the two of them , and was n't that just what Rune had made her by drawing deliberate attention to himself on the stage before making an exhibition of both of them ? |
| 23 | This action was very strange because Andries not only attracted a lot of attention to himself by the manner of his purchase but also the dinghy had a serial number on it which made it instantly traceable . |
| 24 | Did he will failure on himself for the sake of his solitude ? |
| 25 | The armourers all slept in a long room on the first floor , with J. in a small room to himself at the end , and it so happened that Matthew occupied the corresponding small room immediately underneath on the ground floor . |
| 26 | Despite a lengthy conversation with the chaplain , Paine could not be persuaded to attend divine worship and consequently he was placed in a room by himself during the time of the service . |
| 27 | George Albert Smith was later of course erm to come on and make a big name , a world name for himself as the inventor of the first colour process , a very simple , two-colour process , but it was invented by him in Brighton , and it was the first world colour process . |
| 28 | Another performer in One Over The Eight who took to Kenneth with the greatest of affection was Lance Percival , soon to make a national name for himself with the top TV satire show of the Sixties , That Was The Week That Was . |
| 29 | After starting out with a Honda VF500 in ‘ 84 , Bradl made it to factory rider in just four and a half years , making a name for himself on the way as a man bursting with aggression . |
| 30 | That he had taken over Joe the Fish 's businesses and made a name for himself among the villains . |