Example sentences of "content himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Devi Lal , for example , who had been lobbying hard for the home ministry to add to his deputy premiership , had to content himself with the agriculture ministry . |
| 2 | A business executive who is faced with dismissal usually has to content himself with seeking financial compensation in the form of damages for breach of contract , unfair dismissal compensation or state redundancy pay . |
| 3 | The intrepid manager had to content himself with numbering his reserve teams . |
| 4 | So should we be surprised that the architect has to content himself with high fees most of the time as his reward when an ungrateful society refuses to thank him ? |
| 5 | Lord Elphinstone had to content himself with the duke 's assurance that he ‘ would mention to those who mannage my affairs my being honoured with a letter from your Lordship & recommend unanimity upon this occasion … which I hope will be an inducement to the commissioners of supply to settle without varience ’ . |
| 6 | He had to content himself with the fact that it was mostly a one-way affair . |
| 7 | The fundamentally cautious Mehemet Ali decided to withdraw from Asia Minor and content himself with Syria , but Nicholas realized that , to prevent a recurrence of the crisis , he had to find a way of institutionalizing his short-term assistance to the Ottomans . |
| 8 | He says in the autobiography erm my view was that every president was a and this was a famous phrase every president was a steward of the people , a steward of the people , bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin curious turn of phrase I decline he says to adopt the view that what is imperatively necessary for the nation can not be done unless the president can find some specific authorization to do it in the constitution . |
| 9 | Now he has to content himself with the fact that the only replica of a Captain Cook ship he has been involved in was one built for the new shopping centre in Middlesbrough eight years ago . |
| 10 | So , in order to get his views across , such a candidate has to content himself with stuffing letter boxes , distributing tracts , and holding poorly attended public meetings in bare , underheated school assembly halls . |