Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me about himself in a cab after a show . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll have Lou Collins pick them up himself at the airbase on touchdown . ’ |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | His arms tightened as if he would absorb her completely , grinding her into himself in a desperate assuagement of an age-old hunger . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He proposed to create an additional fund to increase the endowment and started it off himself with a donation of £1,000 . |
| 9 | He 'll have it out himself with the Venetians . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | With the change from revue complete and the rest from ‘ Carry On ’ beginning , Cross took it upon himself to ‘ bully him ’ . |
| 13 | The young Canadian took it upon himself in too domineering a fashion to explain about their religion , but she was having none of it . |
| 14 | He repeats it to himself as if he has trouble lodging it in his mind . |
| 15 | Raskolnikov does n't put it to himself like that . |
| 16 | I am still friends with my ex-husband who takes it on himself to be my personal agony aunt . |
| 17 | All this is God 's doing , for he has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ ; and he has made us agents of the reconciliation . ’ 2 Corinthians 5:17 |