Example sentences of "[vb base] himself [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This created a tendency for the administrator to facilitate the flow of benefits which the state frequently confers upon private enterprise to private businessmen for a return , and , indeed , involve himself in a variety of legal and illegal activities for which the post of senior government servant is advantageous . |
2 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
3 | ‘ Damnation ’ will approach his target and introduce himself with an opening line which usually goes something like , ‘ Hi . |
4 | In 1827 Sewell , in his introductory lecture , said he would not , in his lectures on surgery , confine himself to the horse . |
5 | Chris Wilkinson 's remarkable progress was curtailed in the quarter-finals by Chris Bailey who proceeded to displace last year 's circuit winner , the American Brian Joelson , in the semi-finals and ease himself into a confrontation with Bates the next day . |
6 | Let the wave carry him up and then sort of hurl himself off the top of it . |
7 | ‘ Rickie Crowninshield , ’ I said stiffly , ‘ has already lost the sight of one eye because of cocaine , and if he does n't stop using the drug then he will almost certainly go to jail or even kill himself with an overdose . ’ |
8 | ‘ And possibly kill himself in the process . ’ |
9 | Only after his son 's arrival at his camp did Henry II rouse himself from the passivity of the last month . |
10 | He told Norwich Crown Court he became so de-pressed that he went to the girl 's Felixstowe home , cut himself with a knife and rubbed poison into the wound in a suicide bid . |
11 | He took out a key and let himself into the building . |
12 | Lorton glanced over his shoulder and let himself into the flat with the key he had found on Celia 's mantelpiece . |
13 | Let himself into the kiosk , did n't get any cash , so he did a bit of damage . |
14 | Peter walked up the concrete path and let himself into the house . |
15 | Dean climbed off the roof and let himself into the car the way he had come . |
16 | Duck himself as a thresher in Wiltshire engaged in an ordinary form of agricultural labour . |
17 | Will he extend warmhearted support to the Labour party , which advocates such a policy , but dissociate himself from the actions of the shadow Home Secretary and the Leader of the Labour party who buy foreign cars ? |
18 | ‘ I hope John will work exceptionally hard and get himself on the bench for the QPR game . |
19 | He went into retreat and , says Walton , ‘ had many conflicts with himself , whether he should return to the painted pleasures of a court-life or betake himself to a study of divinity and enter into Sacred Orders , to which his dear mother had often persuaded him ’ . |
20 | The eldest , Thomas , was to have ‘ all my books in case he betake himself to the study and practice of physic ’ . |
21 | Joseph watched Tran Van Hieu 's father lower himself to the ground with difficulty for the third time . |
22 | However , God Himself dealt with that barrier when God the Son , Jesus Christ , came to earth and sacrifice Himself on the Cross of Calvary to pay the penalty for the sins of others . |
23 | When in trouble he could , like a god , make himself invisible or turn himself into an animal . |
24 | He saw William looking at him curiously across the crowd and then detach himself from the group he was with and move towards them . |
25 | Nenad Bucin , the representative for Montenegro and a strong supporter of the Serbian cause , similarly declared a boycott of the Collective State Presidency , stating that he could " not reconcile himself to the processes of deliberate disintegration " going on in the country . |
26 | Rather than have him insinuate himself into the building later and perhaps annoy her neighbours , she capitulated and invited him to the flat . |
27 | The second , referred to obscurely in Helen 's last letter from Margate , was Mr Thomas 's decision that Edward should not take up a Civil Service post , but instead prepare himself for an Oxford entrance scholarship . |
28 | In Yohei 's case , this collapses into a craven botch — hilariously acted by Ryo Amamiya — in which he more or less accidentally dispatches his wife but ca n't bring himself to take the plunge and throw himself into the river as promised . |
29 | ‘ And have n't you heard the Scriptures saying that a man should tie a millstone round his neck and throw himself in the sea sooner than abuse a little child ? ’ |
30 | He would have to dredge up an interest in his least favourite pupils and submit himself to a barrage of child-obsessed monologues from people he barely remembered from the year before . |