Example sentences of "[to-vb] himself with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silva , 25 , was delighted to find himself with a gallery of waiters and farm-workers from Jersey 's 3,000-strong Portuguese community . |
| 2 | Mr Attlee was careful to position himself with the majority view in Cabinet . |
| 3 | While Montgomerie radiated confidence and respect for the course , it was a typically down-beat Sandy Lyle who prepared to re-acquaint himself with the course where he made his U.S. Open debut in 1980 . |
| 4 | It was time for Blake to re-acquaint himself with the stranger . |
| 5 | At the beginning of April , Sheikh Saud Nasir al-Sabah , a member of the royal family and Kuwait 's ambassador to America , visited Phoenix in order to reacquaint himself with the Phoenician . |
| 6 | He who endeavours to enrich himself with the property of others , should be deprived of part of his own . |
| 7 | Tonight was by way of a rehearsal to familiarize himself with the place , make final arrangements , and tell the landlord sufficient of their plans to ensure that there was no unforeseen interference . |
| 8 | He 's a perfect team player , too : how kind he was to allow Moustache Nightmare to cover himself with a race car and a spare last year , while Patrese had but one machine at his disposal . |
| 9 | It was as if his father felt a need to torture himself ; to surround himself with the symbols of lost joy . |
| 10 | No , the best he could do was to fortify himself with the Nielson family , and wait a century or two . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Six blocks away a 52-year-old doorman who tried to protect himself with an ice pick was killed by a teenager with an automatic handgun . |
| 13 | He must get it right today , however , if he is not to land himself with the label of being one of the best horses never to win a Gold Cup . |
| 14 | In order to ingratiate himself with the populace , he rebuilt the Temple of Jerusalem on a hitherto unprecedented scale . |
| 15 | Nobody 's bothered about Pike or how or why he went through Mr Marr 's pockets , cleaned out his ID , took his keys and squatted in the house to acquaint himself with the principles of ufology . |
| 16 | Pound did not reach Washington , however , until the middle of November 1945 and the first real chance Eliot had to acquaint himself with the situation was on the business trip to the United States which he planned for June and July of 1946 . |
| 17 | Wexford wiped his brow with his handkerchief and , following Camb 's example , began to fan himself with the morning paper . |
| 18 | Buddhist — to ally himself with a religion whose roots lie far from Wimbledon . ’ |
| 19 | For Svend not to keep the appointment he made , solely to pleasure himself with the attractions of Copenhagen , will be regarded as an act of arrant rudeness , and will almost certainly disqualify him from gaining the approval of my brother-in-law 's cousin who himself is an ex-patriate Dane . ’ |
| 20 | It was normal , moreover , as in earlier generations , for a diplomat going to one of the more out-of-the-way capitals , if he expected to stay for any length of time , to equip himself with a mass of essentials which might be difficult or impossible to obtain at his destination . |
| 21 | In one incident a police officer had to defend himself with a truncheon against a girl threatening him with a piece of broken glass . |
| 22 | Critics charged that he was too busy thinking about France to concern himself with the problems of the French people . |
| 23 | In consequence , I acquired Beejay , an animal who is too laid back to concern himself with the eccentricities of any vehicle he encounters . |
| 24 | The seller can not lose , and indeed the bank tells the seller not to concern himself with the authority given to the cardholder . |
| 25 | As a rule , he prefers to shake his finger at men as they move by wrong paths from the cradle to the grave , and to remind himself with a frown that he , too , is human — a frown that is almost a sigh : |
| 26 | Drinking off the last of the wine and moving on to the coffee he finally managed to confront himself with the question of why he had been so slow to begin . |
| 27 | Sometimes Brian tried to comfort himself with the fact that , however much he had wanted a child , he had not forced motherhood on Celia , that Harry 's conception had not exactly been his fault ; but then that thought had been instantly negated by the realisation that his own pleasure at her pregnancy , their move to the country and his insistence that all would be well , amounted to a foolish bigoted optimism for which he blamed himself entirely . |
| 28 | For the moment , Simon is busy trying to familiarise himself with the mysteries babies bring into the home — such as nappies . |
| 29 | Erm what I have in mind to do my Lord , is to open the case now for you to indicate the scope of erm and will you then know , agreed that we would invite you to adjourn that for some time to enable you do some reading of the witness statement and expert 's reports because of course they are long and that would take considerable amount of with your Lordship is able to familiarise himself with the matter which is contained therein . |
| 30 | The hon. Gentleman would do well to familiarise himself with the keep warm this winter campaign run by the Scottish Office which has received every support from local authorities the length and breadth of Scotland . |