Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This baffled the doctors still further and they concluded that ‘ Social attitudes are decidedly curious on the other side of the Atlantic : prohibition is a state institution but people drink their fill behind closed shutters ; everyone prides himself on his virtue but women wear pessaries against conception . ’ |
| 2 | All is filtered through Hoving 's glass , which magnifies himself at the expense of his colleagues . |
| 3 | French criminal ( who also calls himself Blandois and Lagnier ) who prides himself on always living and being treated like a gentleman . |
| 4 | Wright , who prides himself on being a fierce competitor , was not impressed by the manager 's outburst — but answered the criticism in the best way possible , by scoring Arsenal 's first goal and then keeping them going as Derby fought their way back into the game . |
| 5 | who lives himself through you . |
| 6 | In terms of laws governing dress , the nude bather on a public beach , the ‘ streaker ’ at a sporting event and the ‘ flasher ’ who exposes himself to an unsuspecting individual are subject to official punishments of varying severity . |
| 7 | This case supports the view expressed in Baker v Hopkins that a person who places himself in danger may owe a duty of care to a rescuer . |
| 8 | J. C. Schetky who describes himself as marine painter in ordinary to Her Majesty has little good to say about Islay in " Sketches of notes of a Cruise in Scotch Waters on board His Grace the Duke of Rutland 's Yacht Resolution in the Summer of 1848 . " |
| 9 | J. C. Schetky who describes himself as marine painter in ordinary to Her Majesty has little good to say about Islay in " Sketches of notes of a Cruise in Scotch Waters on board His Grace the Duke of Rutland 's Yacht Resolution in the Summer of 1848 . " |
| 10 | Wright , who describes himself as ‘ an enthusiastic convert to the use of Arc Info ’ says the ability to update the maps is important . |
| 11 | Donald , who describes himself as a Friend of the Earth , does not himself hold a driving licence , but has taken it upon himself to publish a list of prominent men and women who have had the misfortune to be caught driving over the limit a judge , a chief superintendent , various footballers , actors , television personalities — in what he chooses to call his Hall of Shame : It is the number of celebrities we have discovered that is so shocking . |
| 12 | The academic who describes himself at cocktail parties with the words ‘ I am a physicist ’ or ‘ I am a historian ’ is saying something about his self-perception ( essentially a researcher , not a teacher ) ; but is also saying that he subscribes to the disciplinary code imposed on its practitioners . |
| 13 | But rugby maverick , 34-year-old Tim Wilby , now guesting with his eighth club and who describes himself in rugby 's who 's who as a ‘ socialite ’ , lends his distinctive skills and experience to the pack . |
| 14 | As the superintendent cut her way through the herd of lunchtime drinkers , Dexter followed in her wake , like a driver who glues himself to the back of an ambulance careering through busy streets on an emergency call . |
| 15 | Elsworth , who blames himself for ‘ choosing the wrong race ’ for Ghofar twice this season , is now convinced the horse is a much more adaptable jumper than the rather hesitant seven-year-old Brendan Powell rode in 1990 . |
| 16 | Nevertheless this is a more mature Hamish , who contents himself with only an occasional swipe at Ways , and gets on with enjoying his explorations , post Munro and Corbett . |
| 17 | No real thought seems to have been bestowed on the important principle involved either by Day J. , who … appears to found his decision simply on the above dictum of Pollock C.B. , which happens to mention corruption , as one of the inapposite illustrations of an unsound proposition , or by Lawrance J. , who contents himself with a bare expression of concurrence . |
| 18 | And 47-year-old Peter , who models himself on rock legend Elvis Presley , reckons he has the perfect record to make him into an all-round star — Bhingi Bajee Boogy . |
| 19 | This problem faced by the teacher who sees himself as deliverer of prepacked information is admirably expressed by Caldwell Cook , who worked in the Perse School , Cambridge . |
| 20 | He has no morality , no God , no code of chivalry except service to a French King who sees himself as the new Charlemagne . |
| 21 | The god of Creation in Aboriginal legend ; known as Yulunggu , he appears as a rainbow snake who arches himself across the sky early in the rainy season . |
| 22 | Some of these are used to bring about an ‘ altered state of consciousness ’ in which reality can be perceived in different ways , not unlike our chaos magician who throws himself into his ‘ void ’ . |
| 23 | A tramp of extravagant delapidation , who attaches himself like a dog , punctuates silences with spit then suddenly , on the crest of a belch , intones in an astonishingly cultivated voice , ‘ Agnus Dei , qui tollis peccata mundi , miserere nobis ’ . |
| 24 | William Hurt is the medic of the title , an eminent surgeon who finds himself on the other edge of the scalpel when he becomes seriously ill . |
| 25 | Someone , for example , who finds himself in the embarrassing situation of seeming to have winked at an unknown passer-by may offer the account that he has some grit in his eye — this often accompanied by a flurry of overacted eyelid-rubbing and nose-blowing . |
| 26 | If there 's any trouble , it is n't the villager who finds himself before the court , but the Romany . ’ |
| 27 | Now she says he is a ‘ self-publicist and bully ’ who surrounds himself with ‘ court jesters and sycophants ’ in the Lords . |
| 28 | In the canon of the New Testament , there is a single letter from James , who identifies himself as ‘ the brother of the Lord ’ . |
| 29 | There is also a letter from an individual named Jude , who identifies himself as ‘ a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James ’ . |
| 30 | Can any man who identifies himself with the British world of letters , however independent and tolerant he may be , write a fair-minded book about Pound ? |