Example sentences of "gives himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | By not considering this as a possibility , the pilot gives himself little or no hope of a safe landing , especially if the alternative is a very low 360° turn and he is already flying rather slowly . |
| 2 | We have just caught Raskolnikov saying to himself that the moth seeks the candle-flame , and Porfiry says similar things aloud ; while behind both of them Dostoevsky is telling Katkov that the murderer demands punishment and bends to an inexorable divine and human law when he gives himself up . |
| 3 | You know the entertainer first gives himself to God and then the public . ’ |
| 4 | auctioneer and eventually Mayor of Cloisterham , a pompous idiot who gives himself ecclesiastical airs . |
| 5 | Thus the subordinate finishes up feeling good and gives himself a stroke , the manager loses and collects a discount for his pains . |
| 6 | By leaving when he does , he still gives himself the chance of a second female but he minimises the risk of being cuckolded . |
| 7 | This does not mean that that intelligibility can be wholly captured in the formulations or in the mind of the theologian ; it does , however , mean that the divine intelligibility comes across to us , that God gives himself to be known and understood , and that the understanding that is made possible in theology is and is intended to be a genuine understanding and an authentic contact with the intelligibility of God . |
| 8 | There is a story of Dorothy L. Sayers that depends on the reader noting that a French speaker uses in one careless word the wrong gender and thus , supposedly , gives himself away as a man masquerading as a woman . |
| 9 | Unfortunately the author comes up with this approach only eight pages before the end and gives himself insufficient space to spell out his solution , so in the end he fails to satisfy our hopes . |
| 10 | The experience he has gained in the mines at immediately a man g a man who has been in the mines goes down there again his er n er he gives himself away , because , just because of the experiences . |
| 11 | But Chauntecleer slips and gives himself away : and the Miller does not . |