Example sentences of "[vb pp] himself [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had entered parliament in 1900 , twenty-six years after Balfour , he had held no Cabinet post , he had taken no active role in party institutions , and he had not involved himself much in the social world of Westminster . |
| 32 | Andrew had cut himself out of the discussion once more . |
| 33 | Ca n't be certain , but it looks as if Allied Signal Corp chief executive Lawrence Bossidy has ruled himself out of the running for the top job at IBM Corp : he says that although he is ‘ flattered to be mentioned as a candidate for chairman of another company , I intend to remain at Allied-Signal to complete the job I came here to do . ’ |
| 34 | Morton Meyerson , head of Perot Systems Corp , appears to have ruled himself out of the vacant post atop IBM Corp according to the New York Times : it reckons that RJR Nabisco Inc chief Louis Gerstner , who does not have a computer industry background , is now the only front-runner not to have ruled himself out . |
| 35 | Injured Wednesday player-manager Trevor Francis has ruled himself out of the second round second leg leaving his side woefully short of striking cover as they attempt to recover a 3-1 first leg deficit . |
| 36 | Even as a schoolboy he had taken himself away from the crowd for long lonely walks , and sat in the silence of the small chapel in the grounds at Gordonstoun . |
| 37 | Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him . |
| 38 | Pam Dixon 's here , the bearded wonder has taken himself off for the weekend |
| 39 | He heard later that a suicide had thrown himself on to the line . |
| 40 | Before Folly could take in what was happening , Luke had crossed the room in a few strides and almost thrown himself on to the sofa . |
| 41 | Having successfully worked himself out of the job of CBN 's Beirut correspondent , Coleman went back to the Middle East in December 1985 , as Condor Television Ltd , a one-man production company with an ‘ office ’ in the Kastantiana hotel , Larnaca , Cyprus . |
| 42 | His injury is now completely cured and , after an early season rocket from Loftus Road manager Gerry Francis , he has put himself back on the trail to match last term 's 24-goal haul . |
| 43 | At the same time , it was not to be supposed that William Joyce had put himself entirely on the wrong side of the law . |
| 44 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 45 | Theuderic I seems to have kept himself apart from the other sons of Clovis , though this could , in part , be explained by his greater age . |
| 46 | It struck her that he seemed to have tacked himself on to the others . |
| 47 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 48 | One of the littlest lads had heaved himself up onto the window-sill and was gazing out in rapture . |
| 49 | A second later he had levered himself up off the bed , striding away to answer the call . |
| 50 | The porter planted himself firmly in the aperture , presumably in case they changed their minds . |
| 51 | The former was alleged by the press to have enriched himself substantially during the PSOE 's term of office by using the influence of his brother to buy property and obtain loans , and to have run a private business from a government office in Seville . |
| 52 | And despite their reservations over his image — indeed his whole lifestyle — he can expect total support from the archly-conservative US Tour when he has dried himself out at the Hazelton Clinic , near Minneapolis . |