Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | MOTORIST Peter Beer battled for eight hours to free himself from his crashed car while vehicles roared past on a motorway yards above . |
| 2 | The biblical perspective of divine revelation is of God speaking at specific times addressing himself to particular situations . |
| 3 | Anyone who takes on public duties sets himself up for attack , and in Rees-Mogg 's case , the succession of posts was dizzying . |
| 4 | Thomas of Marlborough took about forty days to get himself to Rome , riding fast and wearing out horses on the way . |
| 5 | A purchaser should always make careful enquiries to satisfy himself that persons described by the vendor as independent contractors are not in fact employees . |
| 6 | Raising up the wooden clouds to hide himself from the public gaze , he hurried trembling down the ladder and hid in the dark cart , under his quilt . |
| 7 | Thus , when he suffers what in the past he would have regarded as a disaster , he can move now into the transcendent and in a few moments compose himself . |
| 8 | He waited for a few moments to compose himself , then left the court with his arm round his wife , Shirley , to face a large crowd of waiting reporters and cameras . |
| 9 | To alleviate the symptoms , about one in five diabetics in rich countries injects himself regularly with insulin . |
| 10 | According to Langford , ‘ The traveller who visits [ Birmingham ] once in six months supposes himself well acquainted with her , but he may chance to find a street of houses in the autumn , where he saw his horse at grass in the spring . ’ |
| 11 | Nietzsche was not present , but whereas the premiere of Tristan in 1865 had not prompted any discernible reaction in him , on this occasion he took a much livelier interest and during the following months familiarized himself with the work through the score . |
| 12 | Amadeo Franco Perez allegedly spent six years sending himself more than £1.25m of pay cheques for non-existent employees and selling fake tax receipts . |
| 13 | Where the buyer places an order with a seller for what is essentially sub-contract manufacture , it is very common either for the seller to require the buyer to provide such items for use in the manufacture , or to have such items made himself . |
| 14 | Sunderland teenager Michael Gray needed just 44 seconds to establish himself in Roker Park folklore during their 2-1 defeat of Barnsley . |
| 15 | It is illuminating that much of Askwith 's article is devoted to Blakemore 's apparent surrender to these demands having himself ‘ invited most of Britain 's leading ophthalmologists ’ to bear witness to the clinical benefits of his work . |
| 16 | For the latter the risk was high and he took even more stringent steps to protect himself against default . |
| 17 | He could hardly keep his eyes open and tried jumping in cold baths to keep himself awake , but only felt cold as well as tired . |
| 18 | Pearson used these years to provide himself with an artistic education , listening to music , reading widely , and growing increasingly responsive to the beauties of the English countryside . |
| 19 | Surprisingly perhaps , Jill , the extraordinarily feminine beauty , and Ken , who spent so much of his life these days camping himself , became great friends . |
| 20 | After beating incredible odds to prove himself a classroom genius , Steven has been cruelly snubbed by prospective employers . |
| 21 | He wiped a trembling hand across his face , and took several deep breaths to calm himself down . |
| 22 | ‘ I think we might have got the bastard , ’ said Dexter , taking deep breaths to calm himself . |
| 23 | ‘ We must be careful , ’ he murmured , drawing in deep breaths to calm himself . |
| 24 | Taking a few deep breaths to prepare himself for the encounter , Ybreska stepped into the middle of the road to meet his contact . |
| 25 | Everyone knew that a breaking point had to come ; and everyone who could took extraordinary measures to protect himself . |
| 26 | He used the long passageways to reassure himself that no one followed , before emerging at the start of avenue Foch . |
| 27 | As the American Protestant layman Thomas Howard has said ‘ Jews and Christians worship the God who has gone to vast and prolonged pains to disclose himself to U8 as he not she , as King and not Queen , and for Christians as Father not Mother , and who sent his Son not his daughter in his final unveiling of himself for our eyes . |
| 28 | But it has to be said that he tried more consistently and more self-consciously than most political leaders to insulate himself from external pressures and to personalize decision-making . |
| 29 | When , eventually , he was admitted to the presence of the Chairman he would have perhaps fifteen minutes to explain himself . |
| 30 | ‘ GREGOR SAMSA awoke one morning from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect . ’ |