Example sentences of "has [vb pp] himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At p596 Stamp J asked the rhetorical question : … how can a British Income Tax Act impute to a foreign resident " for the purposes of " that Act an income of which the foreigner has divested himself under the foreign law and which in his hands is altogether outside all the provisions of the Income Tax Act ? |
| 2 | MR JOHN MacGregor , the Education Secretary , has distanced himself from the Government 's loans scheme for students by appointing the two most junior ministers at the Department of Education and Science to sit on the parliamentary committee discussing the Education ( Student Loans ) Bill . |
| 3 | As a divorcee , Docherty can no longer take communion and has distanced himself from the catholic faith , an institution he believes deserted him in his hour of need . |
| 4 | ( By stepping back as he blocks , he doubly protects himself : even if the block fails , he has distanced himself from the oncoming punch . ) |
| 5 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 6 | He would have been a natural replacement for Blair , but in another cruel twist , Gallagher , a university student in Northampton , has committed himself to the English club this season and will not be available to Dungannon for the league . |
| 7 | He has shot himself in the arm . |
| 8 | Once man has habituated himself to the world of emotions which is a form of the transcendent , it is possible for him to cross into it at will . |
| 9 | ‘ He has got himself into the most God almighty muddle , ’ he said , adding almost hopelessly , ‘ he is not a worldly person . |
| 10 | BRIAN HALL : ‘ At that particular moment in time we have a manager that has got himself into the semi-final of the FA Cup , he 's got the opportunity of reaching Wembley , he 's had a difficult time in the League , it 's been a traumatic season okay , then he 's told he needs triple by-pass surgery at the age of 39 . |
| 11 | He has armed himself with the munitions of modernity , not only with ‘ conventional arms ’ , but also with an arsenal of nuclear , biological and chemical weapons . |
| 12 | For the first time , a major interpretative musician has equipped himself with the necessary skills to mastermind his own visualization of the music he conducts , which allows him , in the process , to offer a new generation of music-lovers a sophisticated set of options for the study and appreciation of music in performance . |
| 13 | One scholar has found himself in the awkward position of having to describe William Falconer , author of The Shipwreck , as ‘ a peasant of the sea ’ . |
| 14 | In a way he has moulded himself on the likeness of Ben Hogan . |
| 15 | He 's a good motivator , has endeared himself to the players and if they 're on your side as a manager you 've got at least a fighting chance . |
| 16 | The review seemed to think that the swinging Sixties contained a readership , among others , that would be shocked by the novel 's candour and scabrousness about sex — ‘ no doubt he has touched himself on the raw . |
| 17 | Leeds captain Gary McAllister has pledged himself to the champions . |
| 18 | Charles Spencer comes on stage as the nice guy who has dissociated himself from the forced sale of tenants ' cottages , grieved over the disposal of historic treasures and heralded a new degage era of neighbourliness . |
| 19 | He has put himself beyond the pale — I have forbidden you to speak of him . ’ |
| 20 | Nigel has put himself in the right place , and there 's no doubt about that . ’ |
| 21 | Nicholas Stavrogin has arrived during the summer months of 1870s , and has established himself as the one ‘ who might really be called the chief character of the novel ’ . |
| 22 | Since then the Kettering accountant has established himself as the British No 1 and holds four national road race records . |
| 23 | Since 1987 , when he had a difficult first few months while the recently arrived Jonathan Davies was recovering from injury , he has established himself as the freshest , most innovative Welsh analyst of modern rugby . |
| 24 | Atkinson stepped in to sign the 21-year-old 12 months ago and he has established himself in the Villa side ahead of Nigel Spink . |