Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] himself [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was about to say something when he turned away to introduce himself to the girl on his right . |
| 2 | To many Churchill was not so much a buccaneer as a straightforward pirate , a political outcast who skated on thin ice deliberately to keep himself in the public eye , a man who polished brilliant and wounding phrases that tacitly suggested himself as the alternative should his jeremiads turn out true . |
| 3 | He may know that the vehicle has been taken , but seek positively to absent himself from the scene and the commission of the aggravated offence . |
| 4 | I watched Schanberg in Phnom Penh struggling almost schizophrenically to divorce himself from the celebrity that he had become over the years and re-enter the personality he had had before . |
| 5 | Mosley came increasingly to see himself as the spokesman of the war generation , who refused to compromise his idealistic principles with the political realities of the post-war world . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman would do well to familiarise himself with the keep warm this winter campaign run by the Scottish Office which has received every support from local authorities the length and breadth of Scotland . |
| 7 | He applied his right eye to the hole and blinked once or twice to accustom himself to the darkness . |
| 8 | is to be found in an obiter dictum of Dixon C.J. in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 , 117 , which was to the effect that he not been able completely to reconcile himself to the view that , if the weight of a de facto governmental authority manifested in a money demand , the money belonged to the Crown unless the payment was made under compulsion . |
| 9 | If he gets away , you can easily have him become a nemesis figure for the adventurers in future , returning again and again to avenge himself for the loss of Juliane . |