Example sentences of "to [noun] himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , several firms undertook penicillin production on a massive scale , but hardly any ever came to Florey himself for the clinical trials which he was desperate to extend . |
| 2 | There is no need to change this law , and as far as I am aware no need for Mr. Byran to distress himself upon the umpires ' behalf . |
| 3 | During his stay , he set to work himself on the principle divide et impera . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He regularly went to the pictures to gorge himself upon the facial close-ups of the movie queens , while he surreptitiously masturbated . |
| 10 | That the Assembly could depose and fine them at no notice , as happened to Pericles himself towards the end of his life , shows that the Assembly was theoretically and actually master . |