Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Registration has to be done very shortly after the death itself , so the person who goes to the office to do this finds himself alongside people who are celebrating the birth of a baby , or registering a marriage . |
| 2 | If the accused helps himself to services , for example , by sneaking into a cinema when no one is looking , there is no obtaining by deception . |
| 3 | Instead of ‘ saving people from sinking ships ’ , when the Patna , carrying hundreds of Malayan pilgrims on the way to Mecca , strikes a hidden wreck and appears to be sinking , Jim at first dissociates himself from the deplorable trio of captain and officers , when they lower the only boat for their escape ; and then , on an impulse he can never explain , jumps overboard to join them , leaving the passengers , as he believes , to certain death . |
| 4 | Until about twelve years ago , they wore frock coats , and Clifford ( an Englishman who has adopted tartan trews himself for evening wear ) sees the new uniforms as not only an escape from the banality of the present outfits , but an opportunity to take part in the Scotland 's resurgence of national pride . |
| 5 | You know the entertainer first gives himself to God and then the public . ’ |
| 6 | The director retiring by rotation is C A Johnson who being eligible offers himself for re-election . |
| 7 | There is a certain latter-day Robin Hood quality about Philip Gould , who at 40 sees himself as a ‘ man with a mission ’ . |