Example sentences of "surround himself with " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He seems to have surrounded himself with every comfort ; but that is hardly surprising , if he has stayed here all the week for ten years . ’ |
| 2 | Admiral Jonathan Howe , the American who is the UN secretary-general 's representative in Somalia , and thus the UN 's top man , has surrounded himself with advisers from the State Department , ‘ psy-ops ’ from the CIA , retired colonels from the special forces and military academics from everywhere . |
| 3 | He was a man who , like Marius Steen , had risen from humble origins to immense wealth and had surrounded himself with all the symbols of the established aristocracy . |
| 4 | Usually , David at the time would surround himself with friends who did things for him , thinking he would get things done out of loyalty . |
| 5 | The Profitboss does not run Quality Circles , hut he does surround himself with circles of high-quality people capable of injecting quality into the products and services provided . |
| 6 | When Harold Wilson succeeded Hugh Gaitskell as party leader in 1963 , he swore he would not make Gaitskell 's mistake of surrounding himself with elite coteries of policy advisers . |
| 7 | In many species the basic unit is the harem , with one dominant male surrounding himself with a number of breeding females . |
| 8 | Chris Patten ( left ) and Michael Heseltine ( right ) : surrounding himself with such figures Major shows a measured approach |
| 9 | Surrounding himself with local knowledge was a form of entrenchment ; if you dig in and stare at a hill you can often persuade yourself you know what 's going on behind it . |
| 10 | When he exiled himself to Jersey , it was to surround himself with ‘ the sinister sheep of the sea ’ , ‘ the hydra-headed dragon ’ , which had become for him an image of the abyss , of fate , and of God . |
| 11 | But by the nature of the staff that we have in this school , I do n't know whether Mr Goddard deliberately tries to surround himself with fools so that the school will collapse when he leaves , but the quality of the people that he has , in terms of having a broad idea of education is just a non-starter . |
| 12 | His many-sided aesthetic interests led him to surround himself with first editions , Bristol glass , mother-of-pearl knick-knacks , and , above all , his notable collection of musical boxes ( later given to the Pitt Rivers Museum , Oxford ) . |
| 13 | It was as if his father felt a need to torture himself ; to surround himself with the symbols of lost joy . |
| 14 | During his pontificate Innocent chose to surround himself with lawyers . |
| 15 | The designer surrounded himself with exquisite objects — Chinese porcelain vases , a life-sized bronze reproduction of Donatello 's David , the paintings of Rousseau . |
| 16 | He surrounded himself with anti-Nazi German Jesuits , among them his secretary and his confessor , Augustine Bea . |
| 17 | However , when he felt psychoanalysis to be threatened by others , such as Jung and Tausk , he surrounded himself with less questioning people than these . |
| 18 | They found it hard to understand what he saw in the boys he now surrounded himself with , some of whom seemed to the girls stupid and callow and bad at drawing . |
| 19 | A king who drew scholars to his court from afar , surrounded himself with them , sought their help in formulating his edicts , used them as his agents and publicists , was following the example of the most successful rulers of antiquity . |
| 20 | Although Conran is very conscious of what he buys and surrounds himself with , he has not allowed his love of good design to become a fetish . |
| 21 | He surrounds himself with an entourage of loyal courtiers , some from the store , others from the office , taking several at a time for convivial weekends of dog-walking , tennis and log fires at his country villa on the River Po — a sharp contrast to the rather gloomy , solitary week nights he spends in the industrial wasteland of the Via Borgonuovo . |
| 22 | Now she says he is a ‘ self-publicist and bully ’ who surrounds himself with ‘ court jesters and sycophants ’ in the Lords . |
| 23 | But he still surrounds himself with women and he still takes his camera everywhere , although now he prefers making commercials for Reebok and Virgin Airlines to taking pictures . |
| 24 | The Profitboss surrounds himself with achievers : Frankie Dockertz who achieves the most efficient warehouse operation in the region , Liz Mills who has eyes for selecting the best sales people in the country , Betty Boyd who provides the most reliable administrative back-up in the company . |
| 25 | I 've been watching him these past few weeks — spying on him , you might say — and I 've seen how he surrounds himself with cronies . |
| 26 | At the office Howard surrounds himself with a team of young men and women just down from university . |
| 27 | He surrounds himself with a considered disarray of natural objects ; piles of logs for the open fire , wooden rustic chairs , a chinese screen and antique rugs thrown over the parquet floor . |
| 28 | ‘ In my own terms , I would describe myself as a fanatic as far as bonsai goes ’ Cregagh Bonsai owner Stephen Whiteside surrounds himself with the love of his life . |