Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the other lawyer was growing impatient with Bartocci for allowing himself to be imposed upon in this way by his pushy and unscrupulous colleague instead of attending to his utterly reasonable request for bail or a visitor 's pass or access to official files . |
| 2 | To explain the-timidity of these people , we need look no further than the example of Arthur Jensen , who , after devoting himself to the study of educationally significant individual differences , is declared by the press to be an advocate of segregated schooling for ‘ poor and black children ’ . |
| 3 | The first Vietnamese boat person to commit suicide in Hong Kong died in hospital on Feb. 18 , two days after hanging himself with his belt and four days after he had officially been refused refugee status . |
| 4 | His flesh was red and raw , but even after wounding himself like that , which must have been pretty painful , he did n't stop . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's no such thing as a meaningless gesture , ’ he said , after emptying himself of that thought . |
| 6 | Redknapp , son of West Ham assistant boss Harry , has forced his way on to the England scene after establishing himself in the Liverpool side this season . |
| 7 | Jamie Hill , prosecuting , said Sigsworth had been admitted as a voluntary patient to St Luke 's Hospital in Middlesbrough after presenting himself at North Ormesby police station . |
| 8 | CHESTER 'S former town crier was continuing his recovery in hospital yesterday after turning himself into a human fireball last week . |
| 9 | Afterwards Leconte , who only resumed training a week ago after injuring himself in the Paris Open , admitted he was surprised at the way Ferreira had fallen to pieces . |
| 10 | After stuffing himself on mince pies and quaffing all that milk , and getting even tubbier , it 's surprising that Santa can carry all the things the 600,000 ask him for . |
| 11 | He suffered burns to his upper body after dousing himself in flammable liquid and setting himself alight outside the offices of former girlfriend Sandra Sturgiss . |
| 12 | A SEX pest who stalked TV weathergirl Ulrika Jonsson died after throwing himself under an express train , it was revealed last night . |
| 13 | In his turn , Tran Van Hieu knelt to perform the same silent acts of obeisance as the older man , but after prostrating himself for the third time , he remained on his knees and to his children 's surprise began to pray aloud . |
| 14 | My father , after indulging himself in The Towers , invested what was left in stones . |
| 15 | Wally was awarded the job for his bravery in receiving extensive brain surgery after years of concussing himself on the crossbar . |
| 16 | R. J. Campbell even had the honour of seeing himself in wax at Madame Tussauds . |
| 17 | But instead of allowing himself to be weaned off the drug , he went ‘ cold turkey ’ . |
| 18 | Mr Battleaxe is in danger of lancing himself in the foot : in the sentence quoted from my letter , he inserts the word ‘ sic ’ — inside curved brackets . |
| 19 | He had a brief memory of McAllister 's bright face , earlier that day , and the thought of enjoying himself with one of Madame Rachel 's girls did not attract . |
| 20 | It 's changed partly because Stalin 's er strategy in China has been shown to be a disaster and Stalin is trying to cover his tracks and most effective way of protecting himself against the criticism and the unpopularity which is likely to come from the failure is by insisting that the strategy was right all along and the revolution is about to triumph . |
| 21 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 22 | A Devil , mischievous , destructive but lovable , appears and contrives by various ruses , such as that of disguising himself as a beautiful girl , to amuse himself in causing havoc and death among the soldiers and finally , by playing furiously upon his violin , to force the villagers to dance to death . |
| 23 | The patient is moved forward in the chair , and he holds his hands clasped together , to avoid the temptation of pushing himself off his chair , or pulling onto the other chair , which would throw him off balance and increase his spasticity . |
| 24 | However , he appreciated the cathartic nature of expressing himself through the written word . |
| 25 | When he was at school , Gazzer 's graffiti had been part of his act : another way of establishing himself as a ‘ character ’ , of making his mates laugh . |
| 26 | Let the wave carry him up and then sort of hurl himself off the top of it . |
| 27 | He is intrinsically proud : this reveals itself through his habit of defining himself by telling you his achievements . |
| 28 | He lived for his profession , so much so that , instead of limiting himself to examining the remains of bomb-blast victims , he attended the courses and lectures available only to a very few on bomb-making and disarming offered at Fort Halstead . |
| 29 | They have a superior front five , although the Pontypridd lock Mark Rowley had been getting the better of several big names lately and will relish the prospect of testing himself against Tony Copsey . |
| 30 | 5 April : The Mail on Sunday sets its sleuths onto Lord ( Clive ) Hollick , one of Kinnock 's advisers and chairman of MAI , whom it had wrongly accused the previous week of paying himself in gold bars to avoid tax . |