Example sentences of "[num] he [verb] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an advertisement in the Northampton Mercury of 27 April 1747 he describes himself simply as a millwright , but goes on to offer his services as a manufacturer and repairer of many kinds of agricultural machinery , weighbridges and ‘ mathematical and philosophical instruments ’ , as a designer of all kinds of mills , as a maker of ventilators for hospitals , gaols , granaries , or ships , and as a surveyor of gentlemen 's estates . |
| 2 | Of the second category of bishops as regional leaders , the northern prelates afford obvious examples : in 1346 Archbishop Zouche and Bishop Kirkby of Carlisle participated in the defeat of the Scots at Neville 's Cross , while Bishop Hatfield of Durham rode into battle at Crécy ; ten years later he , too , campaigned against the Scots , and in 1372 he offered himself as a mercenary in the pope 's wars in Italy . |
| 3 | Between 1925 and 1929 he devoted himself to his regenerative projects . |
| 4 | At the age of 17 he found himself manning an anti-aircraft gun aboard the light cruiser , HMS Scylla . |
| 5 | This was a lengthy business , and from December 1103 to April 1105 he contented himself with justifying his exile in the face of criticisms from his English friends . |
| 6 | At 9.55 he presented himself at the door of the tall and impassive apartment-house a block back from Great Portland Street in the Marble Arch district . |
| 7 | Sarcasm and theoretical criticism of these in due course preyed on FitzRoy 's mind , and in 1865 he killed himself ; after an intermission , and despite ‘ scientific ’ criticism of the empiricism of it all , the weather forecasts were resumed , perhaps with slowly increasing accuracy down to our own day . |
| 8 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 9 | Anker Simmons ' main sporting interest was the river and perhaps at 50 he thought himself too old for new tricks . |
| 10 | Before 1914 he earned himself obloquy in some quarters by urging a less provocative British stance towards Germany . |
| 11 | In 1668 he found himself in gaol once again , this time on a charge of disturbing the peace . |
| 12 | Following Chin 's accidental death in 1960 , it was not until 1972 that he was able to reduce and finally to leave cardiac work ; and from then until his retirement in June 1987 he devoted himself to chest surgery at Southampton , Basingstoke and King Edward VII Hospital , Midhurst . |
| 13 | As the town hall clock struck twelve he found himself in an untidy cul-de-sac beneath the railway arches . |
| 14 | In 1923 he had himself mentioned Smith 's work , and in 1925 he published Smith 's long essay on ‘ The Glamour of Gold ’ . |
| 15 | In 1681 he described himself as ‘ gardener to her Majestie ’ , probably Henrietta Maria [ q.v. ] , the dowager queen , at Somerset House , before she left England in 1665 , rather than Catherine of Braganza , Charles II 's consort , who is not recorded as sharing her mother-in-law 's interest in gardening . |
| 16 | By the mid-Fifties he considered himself the natural leader of world Communism . |
| 17 | By 1415 he showed himself willing to accept a good deal less : he would settle for the legal and territorial terms agreed at Brétigny , now more than half a century earlier , and a smaller dowry . |
| 18 | In November 1959 he found himself back in Montreal , ‘ to renew his neurotic affiliations ’ as he was to repeat endlessly to journalists ; meeting his friends and family , sometimes bumping into his uncles who would take him for expensive meals at top restaurants — such as the Ritz — and hotels ; and generally awakening and reawakening those impulses and memories which would fire his imagination and energise his mind for months to come . |
| 19 | With the appearance of his novel Vainglory in 1915 he styled himself Ronald Firbank for the first time , signalling the emergence of the mature writer . |