Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 2 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 3 | He came into the room with a broad grin on his face and could hardly wait to tell me that not only had he managed to approach several people at work and ask them questions , but that he had decided to put himself to the test over the last few days and had , in fact , gone up to complete strangers in the street to ask them the time . |
| 4 | Incidentally , he has decided to ally himself with the more stable elements in his life , and now styles himself Roger Foxcroft . |
| 5 | Vechey had decided to hang himself on the last . |
| 6 | The Americans watched the bamboo rod rise and fall and heard the sickening thud of wood on flesh and bone ; as the fallen Annamese struggled to raise himself from the dusty road they saw blood welling from the crimson weals on his back . |
| 7 | While the duped adversary prepared to defend himself against the apparently raised weapon , the student 's left hand would draw the upside-down dagger from his belt and plunge it into his rival 's stomach . |
| 8 | He had decided to show himself to the crowd , and take the plunge into the humiliation that was awaiting him . |
| 9 | In 1415 , Hus was summoned to defend himself at the Council of Constance , having been assured of a safe conduct by the emperor Sigismund . |
| 10 | What remained of the morning was to be spent acclimatising himself to the deaf-aid receiver and learning how to pace himself with the A.S.M. who was going to feed the lines . |
| 11 | Dr Barbara Burrell of the University of Cincinnati commented , ‘ Some experts have suggested that the palace 's position between the theatre and the stadium may not be consistent with Herod 's personality as a paranoid who would have wanted to distance himself from the people of the city of Caeserea . |
| 12 | Germany 's captain Nikki Pilic , who had barely put the debacle surrounding Germany 's Olympic nominations behind him , came in for criticism for not resting Becker from the second day 's doubles , especially after he had been forced to play himself into the ground to beat Luis Mattar over five sets in exhausting heat on the first day . |
| 13 | At the final moment he was forced to cast himself into the Realm of Chaos to avoid final and utter death . |
| 14 | The wasp has no other effect on the environment and the bumble bee is left to busy himself among the plants , pollinating the flowers in a naturally effective way . |
| 15 | The new committee , reportedly dominated by political figures close to the military establishment , was believed to reflect the army 's growing alienation from the policies of the Ghozali government ; although Ghozali remained a member of the FLN central committee he was considered as having tried to distance himself from the FLN as much as possible . |
| 16 | He decided to use the letter ; the editor of his gossip column astutely elected to buy himself into the good graces of Buckingham Palace by informing their Press Secretary . |
| 17 | Increasingly man is being urged to launch himself into the barely-explored regions of his innermost self in ‘ crafts ’ which are often unstable . |
| 18 | Liz , at the magic moment , found herself unexpectedly clutching the hot hand of Ivan Warner , which seemed wrong but ordained : she looked for Charles , and saw that the poor man had managed to find himself in the icy palm of Lady Henrietta . |
| 19 | Nickle moved to St Helens from Sheffield in the close season and , despite injuries , has managed to establish himself in the side . |
| 20 | Right at the last minute , as the cameras were due to roll , the director spotted that Beesley had managed to insinuate himself to the ship 's rail ; picking up his megaphone , he instructed the amateur imposter kindly to disembark . |
| 21 | Is he entitled to confine himself to the particular matters for which he is retained to advise or was he to consider all the circumstances affecting the underlying data including hypothetical circumstances or risks which attention directed from one and not specifically sought . |
| 22 | Significantly , however , this ritual was not allowed to take place within the sacred precincts : the animal was burned whole ‘ outside the camp ’ , its blood was not offered at the altar but burned along with the carcass , and the officiating priest was required to cleanse himself after the sacrifice . |
| 23 | It was late on Friday evening — Friday , May 9 , 1941 — and he was ordered to present himself at the office at ten past seven in the morning . |
| 24 | Harvey has managed to drag himself from the van , still clutching his stomach , to add extra effect to the barrage — and the audience features members of Screaming Trees and Dagnasty . |