Example sentences of "had [verb] himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian Hall , safety and training officer at Redpath Offshore , said he found it difficult to explain why Mr Eaton had placed himself under the pipe . |
| 2 | But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality . |
| 3 | The party 's executive chairman , the former opposition figure Kim Young Sam , had distanced himself from the plan , although his signature , that of his DLP co-chairman Kim Jong Pil , and that of President Roh Tae Woo , had been on a secret memorandum leaked to the press in October . |
| 4 | By the age of thirty he had proven himself in the communications industry . |
| 5 | Pete had arranged himself in the passenger seat so that he could get his feet up on the dashboard . |
| 6 | On reaching Arcady , he 'd attempted to call Zambia 's old apartment and had explained himself to the woman who now lived there . |
| 7 | From their own number they chose Bel Shanaar , Prince of Tiranoc , an Elf who had distinguished himself in the war and yet was seen as a voice of peace and reason . |
| 8 | Bracing the lamp with his foot , he jerked the flex out and then had to steady himself as the unstable ground beneath him shifted . |
| 9 | But the worst of all was to read what she had finally written on the night before the bazaar , the night before he had added himself to the list of those who had betrayed her — It was the worst hurt of his life . |
| 10 | For one thing he had discharged himself from the army and was listed as a deserter ; for another , he had a wife and two children ‘ somewhere in Norfolk ’ . |
| 11 | Charles had pushed himself to the limit in the armed forces and had insisted upon doing the full training that his fellow officers did — despite protests from his superiors . |
| 12 | He had pushed himself to the limit . |
| 13 | He had prepared himself for the Stoics match in typical fashion the night before . |
| 14 | Whistling ‘ I 'm in the Mood for Love ’ , and rejecting the buzz of his telephone , he had prepared himself for the chase . |
| 15 | The excitement was intensified when it became known that some time previously a railway clerk named Winter , who kept a black retriever , had shot himself in the porter 's cellar but Durham had claimed that he was unaware of the tragedy when he had encountered the ghost . |
| 16 | She saw that the leader of the religious group had separated himself from the majority and was standing near to the sea 's edge and looking directly at the horizon . |
| 17 | " And directly after this , at the beginning of Chapter 17 , there is another abrupt change of tone : [ 7 ] Captain Cuttle , in the exercise of that surprising talent for deep-laid and unfathomable scheming , with which ( as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity ) he sincerely believed himself to be endowed by nature , had gone to Mr Dombey 's house on the eventful Sunday , winking all the way as a vent for his superfluous sagacity , and had presented himself in the full lustre of the ankle-jacks before the eyes of Towlinson ( I ) . |
| 18 | Luke could have done with more help , but Umberto had barricaded himself into the tack room with another bottle . |
| 19 | In 1940 and 1941 , for example , it would have done his image in America an enormous amount of good if he had wrapped himself in the mantle of French democracy . |
| 20 | James had armed himself with the sword of Robert the Bruce , but it stood him in poor stead . |
| 21 | Mr Major was a man who had humiliated himself in the Commons defeat over the European Committee of the Regions , he said , adding that the Prime Minister had been forced to ‘ hop into bed ’ with a party pledged to destroy the Union . |
| 22 | He had to identify himself from the pavement . |
| 23 | When , once , he had thought himself on the brink of an alliance for which he yearned , he was suddenly and shatteringly rejected . |
| 24 | He had drowned himself in the Rectory pond . ’ |
| 25 | In the interim , Alistair had convinced himself of the following : before returning his aggrieved letter , Sixsmith had steamed it open and then resealed it . |
| 26 | Anyone who handled the King 's money was ‘ charged ’ with the revenues he had received or collected and had to acquit himself before the Barons of the Exchequer by showing what he had done with it . |
| 27 | His plan for a metropolitan see at London had been stillborn but he had rid himself of the problem of Lichfield ( a process completed by 803 ) , successfully confounded his enemies and consolidated the position Offa had established at the height of his power . |
| 28 | ‘ If he had proposed himself as the negotiator , maybe . |
| 29 | For thirty-nine years he had devoted himself to the British public . |
| 30 | The possibility of a long poem clearly inspired him and , almost as soon as he had settled himself with the Mirrlees , he began to work upon the next poem in the sequence . |