Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burger leaned forward quickly and , lowering his voice , said : ‘ Returning to our earlier subject , Garland half believed himself to be impotent he probably was , but he was obsessed by that damned girl he married and although she was good to look at , that was all — she was an immoral woman ! |
| 2 | On 9 January 1227 Henry III declared himself to be of full age , and immediately began measures to reclaim the Forest rights of his crown . |
| 3 | And at this , Scruffy threw himself at Nutmeg , + scratched his nose . |
| 4 | Beron on Dec. 4 described himself as victim of a plot by his political opponents , including erstwhile colleagues in the opposition , thereby fuelling rumours that Trenchev and other militant anti-socialists had retaliated against Beron for having taken the UDF into negotiations on a coalition government . |
| 5 | Clinton on the other hand had fought for the king at Boroughbridge , and after the coup of 1327 associated himself with Lancaster : he was one of the two lords appointed by Lancaster to take his proposals for a settlement to the king in late November 1328 . |
| 6 | For the greater part of the 1830s and 1840s Nicholas I dedicated himself to international peace . |
| 7 | After 1815 he first involved himself with the religious and social work of Thomas Chalmers [ q.v. ] in Glasgow and then moved to London where he initially promoted seamen 's charities and was an associate of the Evangelical Clapham sect . |
| 8 | He first addressed himself to Parliament , to which he proposed that a Presbyterian form of government should be established for a limited period , during which the King and his household would be allowed to use the Book of Common Prayer . |
| 9 | The real story of Koons ' romance with Cicciolina began about three years ago in Milan , when Koons first introduced himself to the Italian porn legend after one of her famed pee-on-the-audience performances . |
| 10 | But already the attraction of entertainment was strong ; Steen spent most of his limited pocket-money on tickets for the music hall and in 1923 launched himself as Mario , the Melodic Whistler . |
| 11 | Despite the Gorbachev-Yeltsin alliance on reform , Gorbachev on Aug. 23 placed himself in conflict with the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet , issuing a presidential decree overruling an Aug. 9 decree by that body 's presidium . |