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Example sentences for "putting himself"

  • Putting himself at the head of a body of students and roughs he went round the churches destroying the pictures, statues, confessionals, and altars.

  • He hailed the tidings with eagerness, as intimating the existence of some settlement in the neighborhood; and, putting himself at the head of a small party, went in the direction pointed out, to reconnoitre.

  • Juan Pizarro, aware that no time was to be lost, ordered one half of his corps to dismount, and, putting himself at their head, prepared to make a breach as before in the fortifications.

  • Putting himself at the head of his gallant company, the chieftain sallied forth from the walls of Cuzco about midsummer, in 1542, and directed his march towards the coast in expectation of meeting the enemy.

  • He hailed the tidings with eagerness, as intimating the existence of some settlement in the neighbourhood; and, putting himself at the head of a small party, went in the direction pointed out, to reconnoitre.

  • The latter, putting himself at the head of such of his scattered forces as he could hastily muster, readily obeyed the summons.

  • The duke of Medina Sidonia, putting himself at the head of this powerful body, set forward without delay on his expedition.

  • Putting himself at the head of the royal guard, and accompanied by a gallant band of cavaliers, who held honor dearer than life, he made such a determined stand against the Moorish advance, that Ali Atar was compelled to pause in his career.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another instance; because some; class carriage; club house; ever witnessed; great fish; her room; house door; musical instruments; native state; not like; passenger trains; platoon leaders; producing country; putting down; putting himself; putting them; putting things; scientific knowledge; shall bear his iniquity; small figures; stiff batter; still young; sweet savour unto the; upward movement