Example sentences of "[to-vb] himself [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 And Lyle believes he is ready to impose himself in the Majors .
2 ‘ I 'm just sorry that he 's had this problem at a time when he would surely have had the chance to establish himself in the England side .
3 No , the best he could do was to fortify himself with the Nielson family , and wait a century or two .
4 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 .
5 Mr Parkinson also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link through Kent , saying that it was ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ .
6 He also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link , saying that when BR brought forward the Bill for its preferred route through Kent , it would be ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ .
7 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 .
8 Hamilton elected to station himself on the Queen Elizabeth , de Robeck 's flagship .
9 His skull was smashed , but he managed to drag himself to the Roebuck ( no longer there ) , where he later died .
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