Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me about himself in a cab after a show . ’ |
| 2 | Gossip put nothing of himself to the test but his patience . |
| 3 | ‘ He can have heard nothing of himself at all , ’ said Cadfael contentedly . |
| 4 | He kept himself to himself as a rule , except for meals : attended what lectures he chose , and cut the rest . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll have Lou Collins pick them up himself at the airbase on touchdown . ’ |
| 6 | Modigliani must have sensed the originality in the young boy 's personality even at that age ; perhaps he saw something of himself as a youth . |
| 7 | Music 's place in our services may be seen as a gift of God which he uses to reveal something of himself to us . |
| 8 | Maybe Daine had somehow cooperated in his own extermination , but transferred something of himself to his heir . |
| 9 | The old man recognised something of himself in the picture , stepped back and narrowed his eyes . |
| 10 | Willoughby de Broke saw something of himself in his grandmother , ‘ a good whip and a good horsewoman ’ , who taught him to ride and launched him on an obsessively pursued career in hunting . |
| 11 | Even so , he could see something of himself in her ; that same hardness in the face of adversity . |
| 12 | By releasing five senior officers imprisoned for crimes committed while they ran the country , from 1976 to 1983 , President Carlos Menem may have hoped to eliminate much of the discontent that lay behind three rebellions against his predecessor , Raul Alfonsin , and one against himself on December 3rd . |
| 13 | At the same time , before and beyond nature in infinity , he was creator carrying everything within himself in his thought and bringing it into being by his spoken word . |
| 14 | The assumption is based on religious writings , which in their turn are probably based on the primitive beliefs which early man formulated in pursuance of that almost uncontrollable urge to find something beyond himself to which he could ascribe the origins of the many mysterious things around him . |
| 15 | It had been born of an instinctive recognition of the damage he could do to her emotional independence and , paradoxically , exacerbated by the way he had deprived her of himself by having her dismissed from that job ; finally there had been his open contempt when they had met again … |
| 16 | His arms tightened as if he would absorb her completely , grinding her into himself in a desperate assuagement of an age-old hunger . |
| 17 | ‘ Be quiet , child , ’ said Philip , laying a hand restrainingly on Harry 's arm , though he would have preferred to lay it about his ears if he could have had him to himself for a moment . |
| 18 | He was sure that her withdrawal meant nothing except that she was happy and occupied but he felt oddly lonely , as if she had deliberately left him by himself in an empty room . |
| 19 | The truth of the matter is that Picasso was almost certainly aware of tribal art when Matisse showed him the piece which he admired , but that he was still not taking it very seriously and only ‘ discovered ’ it for himself during his now legendary visit to the Trocadero . |
| 20 | He proposed to create an additional fund to increase the endowment and started it off himself with a donation of £1,000 . |
| 21 | He 'll have it out himself with the Venetians . ’ |
| 22 | He then produced the £15 and counted it out himself on the corner of the table , not letting the chairman or anyone else do so . |
| 23 | Colin had never argued with anyone like himself in his life , and in fact it was good for him . |
| 24 | As had become customary in times of financial uncertainty , Nik Powell took it upon himself to ‘ sort out ’ the accounts , as he had sorted out so much over the years , from feuding gangs in Bold Street to disputative bank managers . |
| 25 | With the change from revue complete and the rest from ‘ Carry On ’ beginning , Cross took it upon himself to ‘ bully him ’ . |
| 26 | The young Canadian took it upon himself in too domineering a fashion to explain about their religion , but she was having none of it . |
| 27 | He repeats it to himself as if he has trouble lodging it in his mind . |
| 28 | Raskolnikov does n't put it to himself like that . |
| 29 | I am still friends with my ex-husband who takes it on himself to be my personal agony aunt . |
| 30 | Has he learned or discovered anything about himself during the past four years ? |