Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When a dealing is had between a seller like Mr. Lewis and a person who is actually there present before him , then the presumption in law is that there is a contract , even though there is a fraudulent impersonation by the buyer representing himself as a different man than he is . |
| 2 | The story begins on a May morning in 1991 , when Brian Mattison awoke early to see a heron helping himself to a fish breakfast . |
| 3 | But while Tony Lesser is once again listing the Treasury 's objections to the topics Jane and I have proposed for discussion papers , a picture suddenly comes into my mind , with the most painful vividness , of Summerchild dragging himself across the hard wet ground , on the morning of June 24th 1974 , to the locked gates of that yard behind the Admiralty . |
| 4 | In Christianity , the problems in the emotional life of humanity are handled by one of the company of brothers offering himself as a sacrificial victim to the father , to redeem the brothers for the murder of the father — the original sin which haunts the brothers . |
| 5 | Allegedly unhappy about the sanitation and the cockroaches but by his own admission surprising himself by pining for ‘ Kensington , Belgravia , phone boxes and iron railings ’ , Lawrence returned to Blighty and spent an extended sojourn in Windsor , where he assembled Denim around him . |
| 6 | he had immediately checked into the Shelbourne , one of Dublin 's premier hotels , and spent the next hour soaking himself in a bath , washing away the grime of the rough sea-crossing . |
| 7 | The biblical perspective of divine revelation is of God speaking at specific times addressing himself to particular situations . |
| 8 | On his way home to Philibert Place one day , Marco wanders through an alley to waste ground where a hunchbacked boy pushing himself on a makeshift trolley is reading to his ragged companions from a newspaper — about Samavia . |
| 9 | Later , after four years in detention during the Mau Mau Emergency , he worked for an Indian workshop in Nairobi establishing himself as the pioneer manufacturer of bicycle carriers and foreguards . |
| 10 | Very few films are about rape , although it crops up all over the place — from the narrative device launching an endless cycle of Death Wish movies , to general ’ scene-setting ’ in war movies and crime thrillers , or used with sublime insensitivity to illuminate ( male ) character : Robert De Niro raping his childhood sweetheart in Once Upon A Time In America , Bob Hoskins forcing himself on the maid in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne . |
| 11 | I know it 's silly but I find it hard to take them seriously and really concentrate and not be distracted by the local cat cleaning himself on a window ledge or some such thing . |
| 12 | The son was looking directly ahead out of the window stuffing himself with bread and peanut butter and strawberry jam . |
| 13 | ‘ And I loved the ending , ’ she added quickly , turning back to face them with her familiar , brilliant smile in place , ‘ with the hero playing himself for once in a crowd of clowns , as though he could only be real in an unreal world and vice versa … . |
| 14 | MR JOHN BROWNE , former Conservative MP for Winchester , who was ousted by his party and is now running against the Conservative candidate , is circulating election literature describing himself as the ‘ Conservative ’ and telling unsuspecting Tories not to ‘ split the vote ’ , writes Robert Shrimsley . |
| 15 | In many species the basic unit is the harem , with one dominant male surrounding himself with a number of breeding females . |
| 16 | It was so incongruous to hear the Maggot aligning himself with the forces of law that I was forced to ask the question . |
| 17 | As we landed at Cardiff , those in the seats closest to his party heard the Labour leader holding himself in check : ‘ Prime Ministerial . |
| 18 | But surely there has never been a case of any Hollywood actor admitting himself for therapy because he was so badly addicted to women . |
| 19 | Theatrical images of this kind are apparent throughout Eliot 's work and , as Browne has remarked , " The image of the actor finding himself on stage in the wrong part comes to Eliot as the expression of a climax of disturbance " . |
| 20 | If a poet writes about ‘ Stella ’ , what she does , what her attributes are , by the use of the third-person form he has acknowledged a certain distance separating himself from his beloved . |
| 21 | Faced with the prospect of watching a fat geordie sweating himself to death on a sofa or driving down the A1 to Elland Road I chose the latter and watched the Swindon game . |
| 22 | Was the old sardonic Lexandro reasserting himself during this lull of relaxation ? |
| 23 | The demand must be dated and signed by the creditor himself or by a person stating himself to be authorised to make the demand on the creditor 's behalf . |
| 24 | It is not wholly clear whether it is permissible for the tribunal of fact to take into account the surrounding circumstances and the conduct of any person defending himself in assessing the level of violence being used , and the frightening quality of the incident . |
| 25 | Police were called to the shop in Southampton after a passer-by spotted Urben lowering himself through the roof into the showroom . |
| 26 | He stripped off his shirt and capered from outstretched dagger to outstretched dagger , displaying himself like the leper healed by Jesus showing himself to the High Priests . |
| 27 | In June 1915 my father commented : " I am coming to the conclusion that the heir to the throne of Solomon is at heart a Moslem and is entertaining dreams of one day putting himself at the head of the Mohammadan Abyssinians , and of producing a Moslem kingdom that will stretch far beyond the frontiers of his present Empire . " |
| 28 | One , from a McKeever header , was particularly outstanding , the Duns keeper throwing himself to his right and managing to hold on to the ball . |
| 29 | In this time it became clear that the military and state security forces were not all solidly behind the coup , especially in the face of popular resistance , with Russian Federation ( RSFSR ) President Boris Yeltsin setting himself at the head of protesters apparently willing to fight for the new freedoms brought about by the reforms of perestroika . |
| 30 | Releasing the cannon from stowage and moving it forward was reminiscent of preparing a man o'war with the weapon 's black length extending well aft and Tommie bracing himself against the instrument bulkhead . |