Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would continue to define her ex-husband as diminishingly efficient , and he would go on seeing himself as an ill-equipped buffoon who had stumbled into six years of brazen luck . |
| 2 | Ken Mentle , who often made up club rules as he went along , declared that his was the casting vote and promptly blocked the appointment , incredibly naming himself as manager . |
| 3 | Arnulf achieved his goal , thereby opening himself to charges of duplicity . |
| 4 | It is hard to know now whether Eden was really being serious , or merely protecting himself for posterity . |
| 5 | ‘ Laura ! ’ he groaned , tossing aside his shirt and swiftly divesting himself of his clothes before lying down on the bed beside her . |
| 6 | Now Sixsmith was gently frisking himself with a deepening frown . |
| 7 | Over the next decade a succession of ‘ Aldwych farces ’ would run for at least 200 performances each , and some for many more : A Cuckoo in the Nest ( 1925 ) , Rookery Nook ( 1926 ) , Thark ( 1928 ) , and Plunder ( 1928 ) alone occupied the years from 1925 to 1929 , and to them all Lynn would bring his own unique brand of wistful stooging : essentially he was the Stan Laurel [ q.v. ] to the much more bluff Hardy of Tom Walls , but Lynn 's timing , notably on staircases and when suddenly finding himself in the wrong room with the wrong people and quite often the wrong name , was a lesson in comic technique for generations of stage actors . |
| 8 | ‘ Follow the laws of the game ! ’ he said , eagerly preparing himself for our fight . |
| 9 | A 22 year old prisoner is critically ill in hospital tonight after apparently setting himself on fire in his cell . |
| 10 | Lindsay Crosby : 51 , youngest son of the singer Bing Crosby , found dead in his Los Angeles home after apparently shooting himself in the head with a smallbore rifle . |
| 11 | It is the coach 's intention to have experience at the core of his team , bearing in mind the exceptional nature of the opposition , but Roxburgh did not rule out the possibility of a new arrival suddenly thrusting himself into consideration for one of Scotland 's remaining World Cup qualifying ties on the strength of a display against the Germans . |
| 12 | ENGLAND manager Graham Taylor is faces up to the most important year of his career , already bracing himself for a row which could undermine his World Cup plans . |
| 13 | Devon Malcolm was not sparing himself on a pitch which was offering help to all the bowlers but Waugh seemed to have a ridiculous amount of time to ease him through the leg field twice in an over for two of his 10 boundaries . |
| 14 | Shah Jehan , not contenting himself with the women he had in his palaces , forfeited the respect of his nobles by intrigues with their wives … |
| 15 | He was a great man and I never ceased to admire him , either discussing critically the quality of a poem or composition , analysing the contents or production of a programme , dealing with the political aspects of CBC policy from Head Office or just enjoying himself in a piano duet with Arthur Benjamin . |
| 16 | He struggled to match the already competent Dave Fielding , but was soon applying himself to pecuniary areas . |
| 17 | He had revealed more of his degraded sensibilities than he knew , in thus equating himself with his travesty of life and Elizabeth with some monster yet uncreated . |
| 18 | The PSI leader Bettino Craxi , whose reputation had suffered indirectly from corruption scandals in Milan [ see p. 38896 ] , had announced on June 17 that he was no longer presenting himself as a candidate for Prime Minister , but had given President Oscar Scalfaro a list of three PSI candidates — Amato , outgoing Foreign Minister Gianni De Michelis , and outgoing Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister Claudio Martelli . |
| 19 | It would be stupid to say that there are no egos , there 's always been a push and pull and there always will be , ’ explains Burgess , coolly positioning himself within the team framework — the intelligent old pop heads and firebrand upstart combination that makes The Charlatans devilish in Brit pop terms . |
| 20 | It would be stupid to say that there are no egos , there 's always been a push and pull and there always will be , ’ explains Burgess , coolly positioning himself within the team framework — the intelligent old pop heads and firebrand upstart combination that makes The Charlatans devilish in Brit pop terms . |
| 21 | That 's when he 's not stuffing himself with breakfast , lunch and dinner and occasionally calling a meeting of his cronies to think of more ways of misusing the club funds and treating the servants as he believes they should be treated . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I saw him when I went down to make myself a cup of tea , just letting himself out the door he was . ’ |
| 23 | Despite not committing himself about specific grievances , Woolf believed that genuine injustice contributes to a lack of legitimacy which in turn makes disorder more likely . |
| 24 | John 's address stressed that the Council was to be pastoral rather than dogmatic , thus distancing himself from his advisers , and endorsing the view , condemned by Cardinal Ruffini , that the task of the Council was not to proclaim new dogmas but to find new ways of expressing the old ( see Abbott , p. 710–19 ) . |
| 25 | This is because the horse is physically preparing himself for action — running , fighting , playing , courtship etc . |
| 26 | Already preparing himself for the first of his political glittering prizes , the viceroyalty of India , he visited the Trans-Caspian in 1888 and published a book on it in 1889 . |
| 27 | He was just wrapping himself in a garish Hong Kong dressing-gown when the door burst open and a hulking first lieutenant in combat dress , his helmet stuffed with leaves and his face already smeared with camouflage cream , stood staring at him . |
| 28 | Yet in 1340 Philip VI was already showing himself to be master of the tactic which the French were to employ in the years to come , that of avoiding direct contact with the enemy . |
| 29 | And Bill Holroyd was already showing himself to be pretty gullible , so it 's in character . |
| 30 | Mr James ‘ Jimmy ’ Nail , the thespian of unrestricted growth who gives working people his Spender , has been generously delivering himself of his Weltschmerz . |