Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Had he gone to Glastonbury or come back by a secret route to Templecombe to hide himself in the church ? |
2 | The civil rights marches created an opportunity for Ian Paisley to put himself at the head of plebeian Protestant resistance to the civil rights movement . |
3 | By 17 October Mola 's troops were only 30 kilometres from Madrid , causing President AzaƱa to remove himself to the safety of Barcelona . |
4 | He was awakened just before noon by the Master of Novices who announced that a message had come from John Benstede asking for Corbett to present himself at the castle immediately . |
5 | It had not been lessened when William of Ypres , the surly Flemish commander of the royalist army , had begun to question her extensively about the size and strength of the garrisons at Gloucester and Bristol , the state of the Empress 's exchequer , the loyalty of her supporters , and whether Geoffrey of Anjou was planning an invasion of England to help himself to the throne by right of his wife . |
6 | Sandys went off to Washington at the end of January to update himself on the latest US operational thinking and advances in weapon technology . |
7 | Lambert came to Stamford to exhibit himself during the horse races which took place on Wittering Heath to the south of the town . |
8 | It is only human of Mr Teicher to make himself into the hero-victim of his own narrative . |
9 | At the end of the visit Archipenko told Modigliani to help himself to the fruit and vegetables in their garden which he took back to Jeanne and her mother as a peace offering . |
10 | Critics charged that he was too busy thinking about France to concern himself with the problems of the French people . |
11 | It was time for Blake to re-acquaint himself with the stranger . |
12 | The E version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says that he was unjustly driven from Ely and went to Rome to clear himself before the pope of the charges brought against him . |