Example sentences of "[vb pp] himself with " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Guy had only exchanged contracts last week , he 'd organised himself with impressive speed . |
| 2 | While her husband occupied himself with making mental notes as to his proposed victim 's physical constitution and disposition of character , Cleo amused herself with Lorimer , communicating with him by pulling delightful impish faces and fluttering her hands . |
| 3 | Hewlett , author of The Queen 's Quair , brings to mind another writer who had similarly concerned himself with Mary Queen of Scots ( ‘ La Stuarda ’ ) — that is to say , Swinburne in his Mary Stuart . |
| 4 | Back in the days when he had yet concerned himself with the world . |
| 5 | Such an interpretation is not inconsistent with Katib Celebi 's brief account , particularly if it is remembered that by his time the Seyhulislam had long since been the Mufti of Istanbul and that he may therefore have concerned himself with trying to sketch the history of the office only in so far as it related to that city . |
| 6 | ‘ He seems to have surrounded himself with every comfort ; but that is hardly surprising , if he has stayed here all the week for ten years . ’ |
| 7 | Admiral Jonathan Howe , the American who is the UN secretary-general 's representative in Somalia , and thus the UN 's top man , has surrounded himself with advisers from the State Department , ‘ psy-ops ’ from the CIA , retired colonels from the special forces and military academics from everywhere . |
| 8 | He was a man who , like Marius Steen , had risen from humble origins to immense wealth and had surrounded himself with all the symbols of the established aristocracy . |
| 9 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 10 | Linlithgow 's Labour MP , Tam Dalyell , has aligned himself with local people fighting the proposed workings and has expressed concern that they could damage or destroy a line of beech trees bounding the site . |
| 11 | There was persistent rumour ( probably close to the truth ) bandied about by the local gentry , that Anthony Foster had hidden himself with a paid labourer at Cumnor Place . |
| 12 | In the preceding months he had prepared himself with meticulous care , filling his mind with distilled knowledge , drop by drop , until … it was almost brimming over . |
| 13 | He obviously had n't stinted himself with She-She back there . |
| 14 | Fraser 's had two thousand pounds in cash and been allowed lots of time by the airforce , and the army gave him a radio used in the Falklands — the rest he 's done himself with a mortgage |
| 15 | He has deported himself with great dignity . |
| 16 | That was the final insult , then ; Tony , after hearing Felicity 's opinion of him , had not crept away in chastened mood , but had consoled himself with sandwiches . |
| 17 | Bream armed himself with a knife . |
| 18 | Billy had armed himself with a stout stick . |
| 19 | James had armed himself with the sword of Robert the Bruce , but it stood him in poor stead . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is the stars showing special characteristics which are of particular interest to the observer who has equipped himself with binoculars or a telescope . |
| 23 | In the last few months he had consciously ingratiated himself with Joe , flattered him , let Joe think that he was grateful to him for giving him the breaker 's job . |
| 24 | He admitted that he had injected himself with speed two days before the police acted on the search warrant on January 20th . |
| 25 | The attempt on his life , in which he is understood to have injected himself with a drug overdose , was his third since his arrest . |
| 26 | Not only has he exerted himself tirelessly on teh College 's behalf but he has flung himself with similar enthusiasm into fundraising for the Prince 's Trust and for the Leigh City Technology School in Kent . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm dying to see what Derek 's landed himself with , ’ said Lili . |
| 28 | There was hope of an Army rebellion to unseat Hitler , but firmer news that he had ringed himself with his most loyal SS units , doubling his personal security . |
| 29 | He may have confused himself with the Messiah , but he did n't expect to die . |
| 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 . |