Example sentences of "[vb -s] himself with " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm looking for a partner for this new act , the Double-Take Brothers , ’ he explains as he busies himself with tea-bags and mugs of boiling water in the back offices of Hat Trick , the Soho production company responsible for putting together the series . |
| 2 | The male busies himself with placing the eggs in a nest , and when this is complete , the ritual can begin again . |
| 3 | Turnbull busies himself with his clipboard as his reply is translated . |
| 4 | We must put all our energies into the preparation for Belle Ile while Schellenberg busies himself with the Steiner affair . ’ |
| 5 | Columbus consoles himself with possibilities . |
| 6 | When the Reeve likens himself to an " " open-ers " " he associates himself with Nicholas in the tale just passed , and can thus be attributed with the same wry self-reflection as the Miller shows in attaching himself to John the carpenter . |
| 7 | Though one is lost and another damaged , the survivor is sent off into space with the forest when the scientist destroys himself with his ship to conceal the fact that the forest still exists . |
| 8 | In order to do this Althusser arms himself with a method for dealing with his material which he borrows from hermeneutics . |
| 9 | Cabrera Infante , among others , repeatedly draws attention to his role as author , while the narrator of Alfredo Bryce Echenique 's A World for Julius not only maintains a running dialogue with the reader , but also involves himself with his characters , putting himself in their shoes , addressing them directly as if they were there alongside him and , like a supporter at a sporting event , siding with some against others . |
| 10 | Nevertheless this is a more mature Hamish , who contents himself with only an occasional swipe at Ways , and gets on with enjoying his explorations , post Munro and Corbett . |
| 11 | No real thought seems to have been bestowed on the important principle involved either by Day J. , who … appears to found his decision simply on the above dictum of Pollock C.B. , which happens to mention corruption , as one of the inapposite illustrations of an unsound proposition , or by Lawrance J. , who contents himself with a bare expression of concurrence . |
| 12 | He groups himself with Hamilton , Boole , Herbart , etc. in holding that logic does not depend upon psychology — it studies the ‘ products of reasoning ’ ( terms , propositions , arguments ) directly , and employs an objective notion of validity defined in terms of an objective notion of truth . |
| 13 | He credits himself with having approx 2,311 Munros . |
| 14 | When he maintains the old spellings , ‘ daunsinge ’ and ‘ matrimonie ’ , Eliot links himself with his East Coker ancestor Thomas Elyot . |
| 15 | Concerned , however , that these words might make him seem too frivolous , in the simple delight he obviously took in playing with his cat , he checks himself with the criticism that ‘ verily it may well be called an idle man 's pastime ’ . |
| 16 | The upshot is that Marx never even concerns himself with questions such as the relation between individual perceptions to objects or the texture of feelings , sensations and thoughts , which might have led him towards a theory of where individuality occurs . |
| 17 | By now , I realise that Chapman is some of paragon ; he likes women , he respects their opinions , he concerns himself with their needs and desires . |
| 18 | The African was " black , phlegmatic , relaxed ; anoints himself with grease , governed by caprice " . |
| 19 | Instead of comparing himself with them and feeling satisfied , he compares himself with a boy who 's much better off financially . |
| 20 | He compares himself with those whose hardened hearts are calloused and unfeeling , and then says : ‘ But I delight in your law . ’ |
| 21 | But this can only work at the individual level : it can not work for the economy as a whole since the quantity of nominal money is fixed , and so one person obtains more money by selling bonds only with the result that someone else — the person who buys the bonds — finds himself with less . |
| 22 | Claire springs into bathroom with cry of rage ( the train goes at 8.21 ) Steven nicks himself with a safety razor that ca n't nick you . |
| 23 | In an interview with The Independent , he aligns himself with critics of the proposed timetable of change in the National Health Service , and he questions the Prime Minister 's ‘ sceptical ’ approach to the European Community . |
| 24 | The narrator aligns himself with the character by various means , including the use of concept metaphors , syntactic structure ( Adriaens 1970 , Halliday 1971 , Lee 1976 ) and underlexicalisation ( the use of a restricted vocabulary : see Fowler 1981 , 1986 ) . |
| 25 | Although Conran is very conscious of what he buys and surrounds himself with , he has not allowed his love of good design to become a fetish . |
| 26 | He surrounds himself with an entourage of loyal courtiers , some from the store , others from the office , taking several at a time for convivial weekends of dog-walking , tennis and log fires at his country villa on the River Po — a sharp contrast to the rather gloomy , solitary week nights he spends in the industrial wasteland of the Via Borgonuovo . |
| 27 | Now she says he is a ‘ self-publicist and bully ’ who surrounds himself with ‘ court jesters and sycophants ’ in the Lords . |
| 28 | But he still surrounds himself with women and he still takes his camera everywhere , although now he prefers making commercials for Reebok and Virgin Airlines to taking pictures . |
| 29 | The Profitboss surrounds himself with achievers : Frankie Dockertz who achieves the most efficient warehouse operation in the region , Liz Mills who has eyes for selecting the best sales people in the country , Betty Boyd who provides the most reliable administrative back-up in the company . |
| 30 | I 've been watching him these past few weeks — spying on him , you might say — and I 've seen how he surrounds himself with cronies . |