Example sentences of "[vb infin] himself [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I shall tell you , my Lord Coroner , how Edmund Brampton , steward to Sir Thomas Springall , did not hang himself in the garret of that house in Cheapside ! ’ |
| 2 | Sir Robert Carey , Warden of the English Middle March , had been in London visiting the queen , but had prudently arranged for relays of horses to be ready for him between the capital and Edinburgh , so that he could ingratiate himself with the King of Scots by being the first to arrive with the news that he was now King of England also . |
| 3 | Electoral law does not forbid him from describing himself as Conservative but his rival , Mr Gerry Malone , will describe himself on the ballot paper as The Conservative Party Candidate . |
| 4 | ‘ I know , dear — there is a farm next door to us back on the dear old homestead and Daddy does usually describe himself as a farmer — but I meant that we capitalist parasites would be taking the place of the oxen , not the horny-handed salt-of-the-earth types cracking the whip over them . ’ |
| 5 | He , I suppose , would describe himself as a chauffeur-handyman . |
| 6 | Would he describe himself as an intellectual ? |
| 7 | This was all quite accepted , but he could n't rid himself of the memory of his wife gazing blankly at the breakfast table with only the prospect of clearing it . |
| 8 | He was certain that Scarlet would never behave so irrationally but could not quite rid himself of the image of the breakfast table . |
| 9 | He plans to stay in Sheffield to compete on the first day of the UK Championships today then concentrate on training , his Olympic place assured without having to jump in the trials in Birmingham on June 27–28 , in which he 'll confine himself to an outing in the 100 metres . |
| 10 | That was how he worked , but in this case he could not free himself of the notion that although Francis was the victim he might not be the central figure . |
| 11 | He must free himself from the control of any established church and its priests and instead subordinate them to the State . |
| 12 | Kruger did n't soil himself with the lucre , but Lorre had his fist out at every opportunity , and was wadding the bills into a fat , healthy roll while his master attempted union with the Infinite . |
| 13 | Stating that Mr McNeill ‘ apologises without reservation for the offence caused by his remarks ’ , Mr Pignatelli said his deputy would further explain himself to the council 's advisory group on racial equality and the Strathclyde Community Relations Council on Thursday . |
| 14 | The ideal needs integrity , however , for a citizen can not treat himself as the author of a collection of laws that are inconsistent in principle , nor can he see that collection as sponsored by any Rousseauian general will . |
| 15 | He would treat himself to a seat in the front row . |
| 16 | But he was n't very good , and even to please her ( which was his only motive for practising ) he could not make himself into a musician . |
| 17 | The section does not specifically empower the policeman to give directions as to how the actor should conduct himself in the future ( as by leaving the spot ) . |
| 18 | He would lend himself to a deluge ; she would imagine water gushing into a basin . |
| 19 | He would just sprint himself to a standstill in a couple of hundred metres . |
| 20 | It should be noted that if any of these ineffective exclusion clauses are included in an advertisement , the trader responsible will expose himself to the risk of proceedings against him under the Control of Misleading Advertisements Regulations 1988 ( see paragraph 16 — 37 , below ) . |
| 21 | He should think himself into the position of the other person , whether in-house or customer , and try to anticipate his approach and reactions . |
| 22 | if you were buried alive , I mean , Uncle Nat when he used , when he was in , in Uncle Nat when he was out in the war , he used to come back home and he 'd only to hear a siren and he 'd throw himself on the floor |
| 23 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
| 24 | He should throw himself at the Doctor 's back , grapple with him , break the machinery at which he was working . |
| 25 | What safety they offered was debatable , but if worst came to worst he would throw himself beneath a car , and deny the voiders the entertainment of his slow demise . |
| 26 | But how far , even as an occasional visitor , could he isolate himself from the community , from their private tragedies no less than their dinner parties ? |
| 27 | Apparently he asked Howard Samuel whether he would associate himself with an action to procure an injunction to restrain the manifesto , to which Howard Samuel had allegedly replied that he would . |
| 28 | It might well be of concern to him , for example , if the content of a particular religion proved to be at odds with the ethical criteria he would associate himself with the concept of Truth . |
| 29 | And if King Fahd refuses to have them there , then he can no longer present himself as the guardian , on behalf of the Muslim world , of the holy places . |
| 30 | Having been primed by Draper back in the hotel room on who played or produced what , Branson would present himself with a box of tapes and play just one track by each artist ; enough to whet the appetite , but not so much as to test his customer 's patience — or indeed Branson 's own musical knowledge . |