Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] himself [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , unlike Locke , Parker omitted to account for this self-evidence , and so laid himself open to the objection of James Lowde , a defender of innateness , that such truths would not have been self-evident were they not innate . |
| 2 | Schmeichel excelled himself as Torpedo 's blond danger man Talalayev suddenly found himself 14 yards from goal but his cannon shot was miraculously pushed away by the goalkeeper . |
| 3 | Returning from the Mort Homme , Raymond Jubert introspectively posed himself three questions : |
| 4 | Mowbray suddenly shook himself free from his memories . |
| 5 | This she had done , only to find herself talking to a horribly languid sort of character who obviously fancied himself rotten and who , she was prepared to swear , was wearing brown suede shoes and a shirt featuring tattersall checks , accompanied by a green knit tie . |
| 6 | On sight of them , he jumped down and first helped Aggie , then Millie up , and lastly squeezed himself corner-wise into the seat , took up the reins , and shouted , ‘ Gee up ! there . ’ |
| 7 | Thomson soon found himself hob-nobbing with Mongkut , the King of Siam , who he met through the royal children 's governess , Anna Leonowens . |
| 8 | But Coleridge soon found himself adrift once more on a sea of self-doubt , without employment of any kind , and without money . |
| 9 | Despite this association with one of the central families of the emergent Tory party Banks soon showed himself willing to extend his financial activities to the post-Revolution Whig governments . |
| 10 | Managers , who live in a constant state of anxiety , tend not to see games as others do and Joe Jordan duly declared himself happy enough with the result which , apart from extending Hearts ' unbeaten run against their city rivals to 17 , keeps them in contention for a place in Europe . |
| 11 | When he saw Mrs Goreng disembarking from her jeep , he at once made himself scarce , retiring through the back of the shop to his living-quarters and instructing me to deal with this dissatisfied , difficult , and , in all likelihood , dangerous customer . |
| 12 | Fernandez , winner of 19 of his 25 bouts , landed some useful shots at the start before Hardy took control and in the third Hardy made the mistake of giving Fernandez too much of a target , but thereafter made himself more scarce , hitting and moving effectively . |
| 13 | What he did was not merely the making an erroneous account stated , or promising to pay a debt for which he mistakenly believed himself liable . |
| 14 | During those two weeks Patrick deliberately kept himself busy , carrying out checks on the precautions at onshore installations , flying out to the offshore platforms . |
| 15 | The soldierly figure , who , confident and elegant in light tweeds , now walked through it was that genuine article for which Canon Wheeler mistakenly thought himself possible to be taken . |
| 16 | There is certainly no evidence that Steven Morrissey ever considered himself capable of fronting a band in these wilderness years . |
| 17 | Last night , after her parents had gone up to bed , and Aubrey very tactfully made himself scarce , I had a chance to ask her . |
| 18 | Gourlay opened the second set with a double , but two ends later found himself two sets down after a maximum 4 and a 3 gave Corsie the set 7-2 . |
| 19 | The hesitant middle-aged gentleman who was brave enough to join a keep fit class later found himself confident enough to join the neighbouring management training and business start-up class , and grew in confidence and ability to the extent that he opened up a new business . |
| 20 | He also proclaimed himself fit for the job and fully recovered from the heart attack that threatened his career over four years ago . |
| 21 | A purely commercial operation would have been happy to finance product-ions by Orson Welles , who repeatedly proved himself capable of producing high quality material on a shoestring . |
| 22 | Mm , mm its one of the great arguments from the old fashioned sort of religion , that you could turn , you could definitely turn to people and say why are you leaning on me so hard , for all this to fought , you ought to be reading your bible , saying your prayers , going to church and getting in touch with the boss why I laughed when they were saying that Terry Waite would need counselling , I bet that Terry Waite was praying his head off and he 'd memorised masses of the bible which he would be reciting to himself probably set himself two o'clock every afternoon , I remember what I can , book of you know I do n't suppose he 'd needed any counselling , he 'd probably do better counselling other people . |
| 23 | He had so many appreciative friends in very high places that he probably considered himself safe . |
| 24 | God the Creator , the God who had come alongside men in Jesus , now made himself available to come within their very personalities . |
| 25 | The idea of being nice to someone because they were going to leave you their money was not pleasant ; Tom often told himself this , but it was the reason for his going to see his grandmother . |
| 26 | The Shah now showed himself incapable of decisive action , Dispatches form Both the British and the American embassies at the time commented on him with patronizing contempt . |
| 27 | In this , Rodrigo once again displayed his judgement of what was best for Spain , for under this oath Alfonso gained the support of those who doubted his right to rule , as well as the support of El Cid himself , who now showed himself willing to stand by the new King . |
| 28 | Gough , earlier a convinced supporter of the attack , now expressed himself uneasy to Haig , but the Commander-in-Chief was fatally confident of a successful outcome . |
| 29 | In addition the practice of billeting was used on occasion ; it is described plainly in a poem written by a Gallo-Roman landowner , Paulinus of Pella , who originally thought himself lucky not to have had Visigoths billeted on him , but afterwards regretted not having them to protect his estates . |
| 30 | Having done the honourable thing , the Emperor now felt himself free and thus it was that on 15 January 1853 he wrote formally to Eugénie 's mother , requesting the hand of her daughter in marriage . |