Example sentences of "[prep] himself in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |
| 2 | Allen could look after himself in the forest . |
| 3 | That strength comes from the fact that Eubank knows how to look after himself in more ways than one . |
| 4 | As it happened he was well able to look after himself in such matters . |
| 5 | He took him hunting with the Old Berkshire where he jumped all sorts of obstacles and had to learn to look after himself in tricky situations and he found a new enthusiasm . |
| 6 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
| 7 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
| 8 | May the Lord enrich and increase your witness to the Truth about Himself in the indifferent society around you . |
| 9 | Although literary critics have been cautious about assuming that Hoccleve is indeed writing about himself in these passages , rather than adopting a conventional autobiographical stance which is in fact a fiction , there are strong arguments to support the reality of his claims . |
| 10 | As he was doing that , he saw the paragraph about himself in The Stage and planted his shoe over it . |
| 11 | He was starting to feel like a bundle of notes about himself in a case-history folder in hospital , one of the folders labelled ‘ NOT TO BE HANDLED BY PATIENT . ’ |
| 12 | And about himself in relation to her . |
| 13 | He told me about himself in a cab after a show . ’ |
| 14 | Under the Access to Personal Files Act 1987 any individual has a right of access to personal information about himself in local authority social work records subject to certain exemptions . |
| 15 | The freshman soon made a name for himself in debates at the Union , which is the historic Cambridge debating society . |
| 16 | What it does show , is just how much of a theoretical problem Engels had made for himself in creating this highly problematical gens stage of history where there were no divisions of any kind . |
| 17 | He is an individual Who through constructive and progressive training can be encouraged to think increasingly for himself in order to carry out his role as an infantryman . |
| 18 | Lewis complained that he could not see any personal relevance for himself in the story of Christ . |
| 19 | It is every man for himself in Boyne City 's National Mushroom Championship , a race to collect the most morels . |
| 20 | God 's way of reconciliation is harshest for himself in his Son . |
| 21 | John soon made a niche for himself in Palace 's defence , making his debut at home to Bristol Rovers ( 1–0 ) the day after his signature had been obtained , and scoring his first goal for us in the 8–2 FA Cup demolition of Harwich and Parkstone three weeks later . |
| 22 | It is very difficult to find a reason for that early forebear making a ‘ god ’ for himself in the first place , if it were not a result of the pressures of dependence originating from mammalian childhood . |
| 23 | A sort of cross between Kurt Cobain and a Fraggle , James has already made a name for himself in the office for dancing around and waving his arms wildly while he talks , not forgetting the regular swishing back of that blond mop . |
| 24 | He had carved out a small apartment for himself in one of the wings , kept on the remnants of an elderly staff of servants , and left the rest of the place as it was . |
| 25 | Mr Bush , who was his Vice-President , won the top job for himself in 1988 on the back of that achievement . |
| 26 | European powers claimed monopoly rights over the trade of their colonies for centuries to come , though other Europeans defied these claims whenever possible , but nobody launched such world-wide claims as the Spanish and the Portuguese , and the Spanish claims became even more all-embracing when Philip II of Spain secured the crown of Portugal for himself in 1580 . |
| 27 | That the king should feel it necessary to speak for himself in these discussions is striking — the theoretical concepts of sovereignty , homage and fealty clearly had important implications . |
| 28 | The fact that he also made a little money for himself in the process was considered only reasonable by the majority of fans . |
| 29 | Finally , in February 1470 , the king regranted the offices which Warwick had taken for himself in the previous August , with Gloucester again the main beneficiary . |
| 30 | It was each for himself in a hard , competitive world . |