Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [verb] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , when he suffers what in the past he would have regarded as a disaster , he can move now into the transcendent and in a few moments compose himself . |
| 2 | He waited for a few moments to compose himself , then left the court with his arm round his wife , Shirley , to face a large crowd of waiting reporters and cameras . |
| 3 | Where the buyer places an order with a seller for what is essentially sub-contract manufacture , it is very common either for the seller to require the buyer to provide such items for use in the manufacture , or to have such items made himself . |
| 4 | It is illuminating that much of Askwith 's article is devoted to Blakemore 's apparent surrender to these demands having himself ‘ invited most of Britain 's leading ophthalmologists ’ to bear witness to the clinical benefits of his work . |
| 5 | Pearson used these years to provide himself with an artistic education , listening to music , reading widely , and growing increasingly responsive to the beauties of the English countryside . |
| 6 | Surprisingly perhaps , Jill , the extraordinarily feminine beauty , and Ken , who spent so much of his life these days camping himself , became great friends . |
| 7 | He has several times got himself into a position of strength in his battle with parliament , and bartered it away for short-term gains . |
| 8 | Clearly , the basis of paternalism — that decisions concerning a particular person 's fate are better made for him than by him , because others wiser than he are more keenly aware of his best interests than he can be — conflicts with the notion of a right to self-determination , whereby a person is deemed entitled to make his own decisions concerning himself , within tolerable limits , free from the interference of others . |
| 9 | He noticed that Minton often talked despairingly and on several occasions involved himself and Vaughan in discussions of suicide . |