Example sentences of "and he [vb past] himself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 2 | The shame was too great and he shot himself on an Austrian hillside a few weeks later . |
| 3 | A bullet cracked inches above his head and he flung himself behind a row of metal dustbins , the Browning clenched tightly in his hand . |
| 4 | ‘ I still ca n't believe you , ’ he remarked , but he washed anyway and he dried himself on the piece of hessian and then spat on his hands and flattened his hair . |
| 5 | He believed the Lord could and would save him , and he committed himself to the Lord and trusted him to save him . |
| 6 | This experience appeared to transform him and he threw himself into a great surge of composition , writing a Mass of Thanksgiving for unaccompanied choir filling 100 pages of manuscript , which he completed in 15 days , as well as other works , including a setting of Out of the Deep which is given its first performance by his choir at St Philip and St James , Cheltenham , at his funeral on today . |
| 7 | Having secured his freedom , his sexual appetite continued unabated and he threw himself into an even more vigorous life of carnal debauchery . |
| 8 | The country rolled endlessly beyond his sight , and he abandoned himself to the routine of riding , resting , eating and sleeping . |
| 9 | ‘ So he went down , ’ said Frome , as if puzzling it out , ‘ and he helped himself to the headmaster 's sherry . ’ |
| 10 | And he found himself in the starting line-up when top scorer Chris Kiwomya went down with flu . |
| 11 | Darwin was himself a painter ( also the great grandson of Charles Darwin ) and he positioned himself in a red-damasked office in the Painting School , yet gave a fair crack of the whip to both art and design . |
| 12 | His undoubted talents never blossomed in public life , and he devoted himself to an immense rebuilding and renovation programme at Chatsworth House , Derbyshire , where he loved to spend many hours in the library . |