Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] himself for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next morning Davis laid about himself for 77 , his highest first-class score , Botham again bowling poorly and being punished for it . |
| 2 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 3 | Ted puffed energetically at his , uncertain yet whether to congratulate himself on being parked up here with this very attractive young girl , or to commiserate with himself for his failure to make more than token progress . |
| 4 | But , and then he , he 's like , we left him on the sofa and said oh Mark we 'll be back in a minute , like , turned all the lights off hoping he 'll like pass out you could just hear him like laughing to himself for another like twenty minutes and we 're |
| 5 | mother you do not have to stay there , why , I mean he 's quite capable looking after himself for a weekend , you know my father had a series of stroke 's when he was in his fifties |
| 6 | The solicitor is entitled to retain documents prepared by himself for his own benefit and for which no charge is made to the client and documents sent by the client to the solicitor the property in which is intended to pass to the solicitor ( eg letters from the client to the solicitor ) . |
| 7 | In the late twentieth century , therefore , people may find the mystical experiment , which also urges the adept to look within himself for the truth and warns against the danger of simplistic ideas and projections about God , a more attractive form of religion than the more conventional and dogmatic types of faith . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , he never lets anyone over the door and he sees to himself for the most part . |
| 9 | Auguste smiled weakly , than laughed at himself for his vanity . |
| 10 | Teversham was unnerved by the nearness of the following Land Rover and irritated with himself for missing an elementary point . |
| 11 | He was irritated with himself for being so pathetic . |
| 12 | The question of what he was to do with himself for the rest of his life was never properly resolved in his mind or anyone else 's , which perhaps accounts for his periodic assaults on the whiskey bottle — what Minto called ‘ Warnie 's benders ’ . |
| 13 | Denis cursed to himself for his indiscretion . |
| 14 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
| 15 | He read to himself for a few minutes while William perused the review section , but his agitation could not long be contained in silence . |
| 16 | Then he smiled , laughed at himself for his arrogance and vanity . |
| 17 | Mr. Edmonds has been talking to himself for years … now everyone listens |
| 18 | And then , raging at himself for his mistake , he would not give the ship up . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Aha , Albert thought — spying on me ; and then sat on himself for thinking anything so paranoid . |