Example sentences of "have [verb] himself [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Engineer and motorbike enthusiast Terence Bird has set himself up as the sole European importer of Nanchang bikes . |
| 2 | Ca n't be certain , but it looks as if Allied Signal Corp chief executive Lawrence Bossidy has ruled himself out of the running for the top job at IBM Corp : he says that although he is ‘ flattered to be mentioned as a candidate for chairman of another company , I intend to remain at Allied-Signal to complete the job I came here to do . ’ |
| 3 | Injured Wednesday player-manager Trevor Francis has ruled himself out of the second round second leg leaving his side woefully short of striking cover as they attempt to recover a 3-1 first leg deficit . |
| 4 | Pam Dixon 's here , the bearded wonder has taken himself off for the weekend |
| 5 | His injury is now completely cured and , after an early season rocket from Loftus Road manager Gerry Francis , he has put himself back on the trail to match last term 's 24-goal haul . |
| 6 | And despite their reservations over his image — indeed his whole lifestyle — he can expect total support from the archly-conservative US Tour when he has dried himself out at the Hazelton Clinic , near Minneapolis . |
| 7 | I do n't think so when I went to let him in he 'd pulled himself up round the patio and looked as though he expected to be walloped for being silly he 's taken us this morning . |
| 8 | Peach alone was in the house , having let himself in through the cat flap Stephen had fixed into the lower panel of the back door . |
| 9 | Morton Meyerson , head of Perot Systems Corp , appears to have ruled himself out of the vacant post atop IBM Corp according to the New York Times : it reckons that RJR Nabisco Inc chief Louis Gerstner , who does not have a computer industry background , is now the only front-runner not to have ruled himself out . |
| 10 | It struck her that he seemed to have tacked himself on to the others . |
| 11 | Whitlock shoved Karen out of the way and had to fling himself on to the bonnet of a BMW as the Mercedes flashed past , missing him by inches . |
| 12 | On the same day Schalck-Golodkowski ( who had given himself up to the West Berlin authorities on Dec. 7 — see p. 37107 ) was released in West Berlin because there were reportedly insufficient grounds on which to open legal proceedings against him . |
| 13 | The attack also came only hours after Juan David Ochoa , 42 , a leading Medellín cartel leader , had given himself up to the authorities ; his two younger brothers were already in custody after accepting a government offer of reduced sentences and no extradition in return for their surrender and confession [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 37914 ] . |
| 14 | Official accounts of the trial noted that although he had been involved in plotting the occupation of Tiananmen Square , he had given himself up to the police and had shown " repentance " . |
| 15 | He had squeezed himself back into the side-car with his long legs stretched flat along the floor of the rectangular alloy box . |
| 16 | After he had bowed himself out of the room , Cynthia remained behind and , taking pen and paper , took down Dorothy 's letter to ha dictation . |
| 17 | Leo had dragged himself up from the East End , where his father , a first-generation Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine , had worked as a tailor 's cutter ; James , on the other hand , had had one of those privileged English upbringings . |
| 18 | He drank too much and was usually overweight but , to his credit , had dragged himself back into the top thirty on the circuit in the last couple of years . |
| 19 | In time ‘ yeoman ’ came to mean primarily a farmer who had raised himself out of the ruck of common husbandman , ‘ such as be exempted out of the rascalitie of the popular bee called and written yeomen , as in the degree next vnto gentlemen ’ ; and while careful to avoid making wealth appear the sole criterion , Smith adds that ‘ these tende their owne businesse , come not to meddle in publike matters and iudgements but when they are called and glad when they are deliuered thereof ’ . |
| 20 | The baby-faced rapist knocked on her door in the early hours , claiming to be a neighbour who had locked himself out in the pouring rain . |
| 21 | Andrew had cut himself out of the discussion once more . |
| 22 | He heard later that a suicide had thrown himself on to the line . |
| 23 | Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him . |
| 24 | One of the littlest lads had heaved himself up onto the window-sill and was gazing out in rapture . |
| 25 | A second later he had levered himself up off the bed , striding away to answer the call . |