Example sentences of "involve himself in " 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 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |
| 3 | Peto involved himself in Karolyi 's work , becoming his personal secretary , the establishment of a free socialist Hungary after the anticipated liberation being their aim . |
| 4 | Simultaneously he increasingly involved himself in the literary life of London , a change in the balance of his career which began when he made the acquaintance of the poet , Alfred ( later first Baron ) Tennyson [ q.v. ] , who in 1867 commissioned Knowles to design his house in Aldworth , Sussex . |
| 5 | Akroyd Stuart was elected a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1901 , but a few years previously he had emigrated to Australia , where he involved himself in the design and manufacture of the Akroyd patent down-draught gas producer . |
| 6 | After his retirement in 1974 he quickly involved himself in local community work in the church and will several charities . |
| 7 | He involved himself in Raymond Williams 's ‘ May Day Manifesto Committee ’ and he talked to others about what could be done . |
| 8 | It must be admitted that a great deal of what Judaeo-Christianity has to say about the ‘ goodness ’ of God is based upon claims about the way in which He involves himself in the historical process . |
| 9 | In these circumstances , where a director alleges an agreement with a committee of the Board for payment of remuneration , the court will not , in law or equity , award a sum to him for services to the company , as in relying on such an alleged agreement the director involves himself in an irreconcilable conflict between his duties as a director and his personal interests . |
| 10 | I seem to remember several cases in which the court considered to what extent the solicitor involves himself in the financial arrangements for a conveyancing transaction . |
| 11 | A mere colonel on the White House staff , he had involved himself in forgery , false testimony , the illegal shredding of incriminating documents , the illegal shipment of arms to America 's enemies , the opening and operation of secret numbered bank accounts in Switzerland involving tens of millions of dollars , shady illegal deals with dishonest arms dealers , and the use of secret funds to support terrorist operations in Central America in direct contravention of Congress . |
| 12 | No member of the races of the True People would have involved himself in a plan which necessitated the transportation of a mutant into Kinsai . |
| 13 | He listened , but he did not involve himself in the affairs of his friends , except on the level of gossip . |
| 14 | 8 That he did n't involve himself in life . |
| 15 | The senior management of the force has required him to involve himself in politics , to deal with an authority out to undermine him , without adequate resources or support : ‘ I am conscious that this job gives no backing to senior officers who are libelled , and as far as I am concerned , the job is derelict in its duty to police chiefs . ’ |
| 16 | Leicester have won just one of their 11 Carlsberg League games this season , but the club suggested that the reason for the dismissal was Johnson 's unwillingness to involve himself in the club 's junior programme . |
| 17 | At no time during his life did Vincent show any sign of wanting to involve himself in the socialist movements of his day . |
| 18 | Although Anglo-Spanish relations deteriorated after 1568 and Philip 's protective mantle gradually began to slip away , the Spanish king still declined to involve himself in plots and conspiracies to overthrow Elizabeth . |
| 19 | Whereas Maurice was always reluctant to involve himself in practical agitation and action , Ludlow was a concrete thinker who was never satisfied until ideals received some sort of institutional expression . |
| 20 | He has a duty to involve himself in ‘ trouble ’ in order to prevent it . |
| 21 | Nor was Chilperic the only Merovingian monarch to involve himself in such building projects . |
| 22 | He was not prepared , however , to involve himself in the European war which would have resulted from a substantial direct intervention in Turkish affairs . |
| 23 | On balance , it is probably better not to define such obligations in the partnership agreement itself except in general terms ( Clause 13.01 ) ; ( c ) the obligation on a partner not to involve himself in other professional activity save for the benefit of the firm ( and in particular not to compete with the firm ) and to account to the firm for any profits made . |
| 24 | It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it . |
| 25 | High quality opportunism like that is what Tranmere paid Everton £300,000 for but , until he scored , the travelling fans were entitled to question Nevin 's eagerness to involve himself in the game . |