Example sentences of "himself [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing himself as the peacemaker among his fellow monarchs , and adopting as his motto Beati Pacifici ( Blessed are the Peacemakers ) , he repeatedly refused to commit himself wholeheartedly to the Protestant cause . |
| 2 | Confronted with a party weighted in favour of the clerical , he nevertheless took a thoughtful look at Hugh Beringar , and addressed himself rather to the secular justice . |
| 3 | Corbett groaned and went up to his chamber , throwing himself down on the small cot and reflecting on what he had learnt . |
| 4 | He pitched forward , throwing himself down in the glutinous mud , covering his head with his hands as Farrell replied , bullets slicing through the air and singing above the prone man 's body , missing him , it seemed , by mere inches . |
| 5 | An earlier hero , in The Black Prince ( 1973 ) , is a failed writer who creatively fulfils himself only in the enforced loneliness of a prison cell when he is convicted for a murder he has not committed . |
| 6 | He had entered parliament in 1900 , twenty-six years after Balfour , he had held no Cabinet post , he had taken no active role in party institutions , and he had not involved himself much in the social world of Westminster . |
| 7 | There was no night-porter , but he had a key and he let himself in to the deserted lobby . |
| 8 | He used another of his plastic cards to let himself in through the back door . |
| 9 | He throws himself entirely on the divine generosity of which he has already had such rich experience . |
| 10 | At the same time , it was not to be supposed that William Joyce had put himself entirely on the wrong side of the law . |
| 11 | He looked at himself critically in the small mirror on the window ledge in the lean-to . |
| 12 | Gooch had a bowl , but it was an hour before the next casualty , Akram sparing Salim Malik in a misunderstanding over a third run and taking himself off on the sad trek back to the redbrick pavilion . |
| 13 | And he was still worrying about how to pass himself off as the long-dead Bard when police nicked him dithering outside a bank . |
| 14 | Replacing the shoebox but leaving the tell-tale sea of marbles , he stood on Vic 's bed and tried , without success , to jump and pull himself up to the small opening . |
| 15 | When the war was seen to be lost , after some vacillation he delivered himself up to the Scottish army at Newark . |
| 16 | Charles made himself up for the new role , and dressed in the new costume . |
| 17 | Rincewind , coiling himself like a spring , gave a standing jump and grasped a beam , swinging himself up into the relative safety of the roof with a strength that amazed him . |
| 18 | He was born at Preston in 1732 and got little education ; he was apprenticed to a barber , and set himself up in the barbering trade at Bolton later . |
| 19 | Fergus tried to lever himself up from the rear bench seat of the old Rover , but failed . |
| 20 | If someone touched him from behind on a crowded Saturday night he would push himself back onto the anonymous hand , just like a cat would , without turning round to see who it was . |
| 21 | The remark was enough to tell her that he had kissed her brow , and that he was firmly hauling himself back into the anti-female attitude which would give him security from involvement with a woman . |
| 22 | Cornelius fanned at his trouser bottoms and slowly drew himself back into the vertical plane . |
| 23 | Finally he hauled himself out on the allied side . |
| 24 | He was speaking as he jerked himself out on the sandy foreshore . |
| 25 | ‘ Be quiet yourself , ’ he said , stretching himself out on the uncomfortable horsehair sofa . |
| 26 | He let himself out of the front door and when he was beyond the shelter of the porch he felt the sting of rain on his cheeks . |
| 27 | Then , looking at the man as if he was so much dirt , he let himself out of the front door . |
| 28 | ‘ Nothing at all , ’ said Greg , letting himself out of the front door . |
| 29 | He again eased himself out of the narrow space of the breakfast nook and went over to the kitchen counter , looked at the parcel and looked at his wife , who was now almost hysterical : He decided that he must be courageous and investigate , so he unwound the paper towels , picked up the books one by one and read their titles . |
| 30 | 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 . |