Example sentences of "was [verb] himself [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All she wanted to do now was get out of here because it was pretty obvious that this woman had known Felipe when he was enjoying himself on the coast and there was definitely something between them . |
| 2 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 3 | The fourth man had abandoned their horses to his wounded companion and was launching himself into the fray . |
| 4 | Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit . |
| 5 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 6 | Alexander was disporting himself about the boat . |
| 7 | The alienation of king and archbishop gave added significance to long-standing grievances at a time when by protecting Eardwulf 's enemies the archbishop was allying himself against the king . |
| 8 | For all the tact of his dealings with the army , his words and policies in the summer of 1958 plainly showed that de Gaulle was disassociating himself from the ideology of integration — i.e. integration of Algeria into France — that many officers favoured . |
| 9 | And I noticed Otley was admiring himself in the mirror a lot these days , the predatory gleam back in his hazel eyes , sometimes gold sometimes green , according to where the light was coming from . |
| 10 | He was taking himself to the limit and then pushing on from there . |
| 11 | It symbolized that he was putting himself under the protection of the saint , the patron of his kingdom ; but it also revealed the sort of anomaly which had entered the feudal hierarchy . |
| 12 | Then I realized he was putting himself into the part . |
| 13 | Or , if the Prince of Wales was to remove himself from the line of succession , that would be a grave matter . |
| 14 | Doug was throwing himself into the part with relish . |
| 15 | After all Meredith was not alluding to her , any more than he was casting himself in the role of Caesar . |
| 16 | Kersey was briefing himself from the paperwork so far . |