Example sentences of "[verb] himself to be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the other lawyer was growing impatient with Bartocci for allowing himself to be imposed upon in this way by his pushy and unscrupulous colleague instead of attending to his utterly reasonable request for bail or a visitor 's pass or access to official files . |
| 2 | ‘ Many felt he was allowing himself to be misrepresented . ’ |
| 3 | Aindow is further charged with conspiracy with others to pervert the course of justice by allowing himself to be struck in the leg in order to support a false story that he had been hit by the joyriders ' car . |
| 4 | He is further charged with conspiracy with others to pervert the course of justice by allowing himself to be struck in the leg in order to support a false story that he was hit by the stolen car . |
| 5 | He admitted burglary , handling stolen goods and allowing himself to be carried in a stolen car and was jailed for 21 months yesterday by Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court . |
| 6 | He was jailed for 21 months at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court yesterday after admitting burglary , handling stolen goods and allowing himself to be carried in a stolen car . |
| 7 | It was on the tip of Jehan 's tongue to suggest that Alexei was allowing himself to be used only because it suited him ; but it was clear that discussing the subject was making Jehana unhappy , and so he said nothing , sitting quietly beside her until suddenly she got up and went into the house . |
| 8 | But instead of allowing himself to be weaned off the drug , he went ‘ cold turkey ’ . |
| 9 | The last and smallest darted back , self-importantly , to inscribe his name with care in the visitors ' book , which lay open on a table by the door , before allowing himself to be shepherded after his companions . |
| 10 | He provided titillating material — allowing himself to be photographed in the Cliveden swimming-pool with the lady . |
| 11 | The Word was made flesh in Jesus Christ ; God has given himself to be understood in our terms and on our level ; and even in these terms and on that level it is the reality of God that is given for us to understand . |
| 12 | A poor man believed himself to be possessed by many devils . |
| 13 | " 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 ) . |
| 14 | If Cadwallon believed himself to be descended from a Votadini chieftain , he may well have wished to support the Votadini in their continuing war with the northern Angles . |
| 15 | This process is analogous to a buyer at an auction paying more than he can afford because he allows himself to be swept along by the bidding . |
| 16 | The second half of section 12(1) deals with persons who knowing that a conveyance has been taken without authority , drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it . |
| 17 | Section 12(1) states : … a person shall be guilty of an offence if , without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority , he takes any conveyance for his own or another 's use or knowing that any conveyance has been taken without such authority , drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it . |
| 18 | ( c ) " Allows himself to be carried in or on it " . |
| 19 | He discreetly allows himself to be steered . |
| 20 | Strephon allows himself to be duped by the charms of this woman who , in Swift 's view , seems immortal because she appears clean . |
| 21 | But the priest allowed himself to be seated and to have a glass of wine poured for him . |
| 22 | Joseph Chamberlain retained his preference for independence but allowed himself to be overruled by Austen and by the overwhelming wishes of the Liberal Unionist Council to merge . |
| 23 | The terrier allowed himself to be dragged down to lie on the blankets , and Theda was able to see her new mistress in the light afforded by a lamp on her bedside table and a set of two candelabra resting on a nearby chest of drawers . |
| 24 | He allowed himself to be groped by motherly women crammed into uniforms of the kind which once might have been issued to the Croatian National Guard , and entered the ante-hall of the conference centre with a quite irrational lifting of the spirit . |
| 25 | He laid aside his paper and allowed himself to be lulled into a rhythmical vacuity by the swaying of the ambulance . |
| 26 | It has been claimed that Aindow allowed himself to be struck on the leg to support the false story that he had been hit by the car . |
| 27 | But the men liked the giants ' tricks : one used to swallow and then regurgitate long arrows , as in a circus ; and another , who allowed himself to be called Juan and learned some biblical phrases , caught and ate all the rats and mice on board , to the entertainment of the men and the pleasure of the cook . |
| 28 | In his anxiety he often allowed himself to be beaten down in price . |
| 29 | Edward allowed himself to be swept by his particular tide , and spent the next few hours in a blur of short motor trips , a meal , many drinks , shouted insults , conversations . |
| 30 | Barely ten years after that final line of Madame Bovary was written , Flaubert , arch anti-bourgeois and virile hater of governments , allowed himself to be created a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur . |