Example sentences of "makes himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | In doing that he makes himself miserable . |
| 2 | He makes himself known with a tiny , metallic clink-clink-clink from within the bushes . |
| 3 | He makes himself available to meet guests and also provides cover when necessary , particularly in reception and in the restaurant . |
| 4 | The braggart turns every question into an answer that makes himself or herself look incredibly good . |
| 5 | Must not theology , if it were to be possible at all , be established from the other side , by God himself — by the God who makes himself known to us in Jesus Christ rather than the God whom we choose to recognise in him , a God who comes from beyond ourselves to judge , redeem and save ? |
| 6 | In biblical language , God makes himself known always and only as the Lord who lays his claim upon us ; in that of Kierkegaard , he is the Subject who can never be reduced to an object , but is always the One who challenges us across the gulf of the ‘ infinite qualitative difference ’ , and so awakens in us the ‘ infinite passion ’ of faith . |
| 7 | There is only what from our side is neither predictable nor controllable — the coming of the Word from beyond which opens and displays to us the overwhelming advent of God as he makes himself known in the ‘ eternal moment ’ . |
| 8 | Within that horizon , however , it can be seen that God 's making of himself known through Jesus has a threefold pattern : he makes himself known in Jesus Christ and to us , and this triadic structure is nothing other than that of the Trinity : that God is Father , Son and Holy Spirit ; that the Son is the Word and Image of the Father ; that the Holy Spirit is the power who discloses that Image and conveys that Word . |
| 9 | Barth insisted that the God with whom we have to deal makes himself known in and through Jesus Christ as the Father , Son and Holy Spirit , and that this is the real key to his being as God . |
| 10 | When the big day comes the Doom Diver prepares by strapping on his wings which he makes himself ( no Doom Diver trusts any other Goblin to make his wings and gets very angry if anyone else should even so much as touch them ) . |
| 11 | ‘ He 'll go on screaming until he makes himself really ill ! |
| 12 | ‘ The way he makes himself at home . ’ |
| 13 | Under the new covenant Yahweh makes himself present to his people as Spirit ( which seems to be the meaning of ‘ Now the Lord is the Spirit ’ 2 Cor 3:17 ) ; d such his presence IS constant , unwithdrawn and steady The divine presence , concentrated in Christ , and universalised through his death and resurrection , becomes available to transform his people . |
| 14 | So that old kung fu contradiction appears yet again : by doubling his striking power the practitioner makes himself twice as vulnerable . |
| 15 | He makes himself felt . ’ |
| 16 | John makes himself smile . |
| 17 | At the end of the hour he makes himself tell her . |
| 18 | Keith makes himself go to work . |
| 19 | He makes himself look up at Paul . |
| 20 | Teddy shows no expression , he simply walks across the room and makes himself an instant coffee . |
| 21 | The second theme is set by the title — the self-made man — which harks back to Gordon Childe 's Man Makes Himself ( 1936 ) . |
| 22 | Let's hope he keeps it up , and makes himself a permanent fixture in the side . |
| 23 | and when he just makes himself flop , he would n't stand up . |
| 24 | Erm , well what your mum and dad said to me is that he gets very worried , het up , really tensed about doing things , that 's going , you know , things that are gon na happen , like just driving down to a different place , er and he get 's himse himself so het up , so worried , he makes himself ill , I think that 's what 's happened |
| 25 | Well that 's exactly what I mean , a very good illustration of somebody who makes himself more important by coming in fifteen and a half seconds late , which is not so late for a corporate session , but is late enough to , to make everyone worry and so on in that time . |