Example sentences of "himself [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The novelist has himself referred to the self-generating quality of these works : he seems to provide the reader with a metaphor of the construction of narrative . |
| 2 | We know that he himself referred to the daunting shadow of Beethoven 's greatness — and we can assume that public expectation was just as daunting , given that he was regarded as Beethoven 's heir . |
| 3 | James Halden bent his leonine head to make himself heard above the hissing steam . |
| 4 | The composer himself joined in the genial disparagement . |
| 5 | The other main reason is that , having been sidelined by Neil Kinnock last year into the job of transport , Mr Prescott has found himself appearing on the early-evening television and radio bulletins more often than any other member of the Shadow Cabinet . |
| 6 | Though Yeltsin dropped his idea of a party , Grachev found himself targeted by the anti-presidential opposition at a moment of acute crisis . |
| 7 | But things change quickly at Ferrari and , in 1990 , he found himself swimming against the political tide . |
| 8 | Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk . |
| 9 | As in a Hammer horror film , the anticipation of something dreadful provides the engine to this dream — the seven bearded men 's appalling appearance was not for instance immediately apparent , and even though they removed his clothes and started to eat , there was no explicit imagery of himself implicated in the cannibalistic orgy , tasting flesh — presumably his own . |
| 10 | Nicholas felt himself flushing despite the bitter day . |
| 11 | All the same , he found himself wondering about the strange animal and , almost as ii he was under some strange influence , he could not get the events out of his mind . |
| 12 | He believes — as any political leader must believe , to keep himself going through the grinding work of electioneering — that victory is out there , but that the voters are making the Tories work hard for it . |
| 13 | Lapping a straggler , he forced himself to focus on the shimmering surface . |
| 14 | Max had himself wanked off the other day in a deserted section among some ruins and said it was very good . |
| 15 | Robert Smith was a relative of John 's first wife and found himself summoned by the great man to take over the accounts . |
| 16 | The Londoner found himself staring into the expressionless face of the tall and broad , blond-haired , blue-eyed bouncer . |
| 17 | Then one night in an alleyway he witnesses a murder and finds himself lumbered with the dead man 's child . |
| 18 | Maxim found himself reaching for the non-existent seatbelt . |
| 19 | Charles found himself muttering to the motherly dresser , who handed him his hat . |
| 20 | Mr Berkley found himself responding to the insistent beat . |
| 21 | He was surprised therefore , after drawing his gun and edging out carefully , to find himself standing in the deserted mortuary room where he had introduced the three travellers to Howard . |
| 22 | Stephen signalled to Orson , the head waiter , who almost fell over himself to get to the Prime Minister . |
| 23 | It is ‘ an extraordinary compound ’ , as he himself wrote of the Prime Minister , although the elements and the whole are as different from anything which could have emanated from Lloyd George as it is possible to imagine . |
| 24 | Back inside the house , he found himself confronted by the gin-filled man . |
| 25 | Thus he found himself working within the grey area between employment agencies and headhunters . |
| 26 | Speaking in Yemen 's capital , Sana'a , as the US secretary of state , Warren Christopher , held talks in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait , he warned that Israel 's prime minister , Yitzhak Rabin , whom Mr Christopher is scheduled to meet today , ‘ will only have himself to blame for the crazy escalation of terrorism against our Palestinian people ’ . |