Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas received them all himself , saying that ‘ It might be hoped that they came for their own good or his own , for he lived to make himself or others better . ’ |
| 2 | Shadows leapt and danced away from the light as he fought to steady himself . |
| 3 | In so doing , he avoided committing himself too early externally and , at the same time , remained above the fray at home . |
| 4 | He is the heavyweight Whip that was so busy strong-arming Tory rebels on the night of the critical vote that he failed to vote himself . |
| 5 | He misinterpreted the Act and he failed to allow himself to have the jurisdiction to deal in a flexible manner with the children , which is the whole purpose of the Act , and consequently it is for this court to make the order that it appears Judge Galpin would have liked to have made and felt impeded from so doing . |
| 6 | But he failed to sort himself out . |
| 7 | It has never been doubted by the Tanzanian public that his aims were genuine , nor been considered that he sought to enrich himself . |
| 8 | There was a suggestion at the inquest that he sought to relieve himself out of the window rather than trudge down to the jakes in the basement , a distressing but not unprecedented recourse for chaps well gone in their cups . |
| 9 | But in the early stages of his reign , as he sought to establish himself in quarrels with some of his more powerful vassals , Philip relied heavily upon aid from Henry II and his sons , from the family which he was to do so much to tear apart . |
| 10 | Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week |
| 11 | He slipped on the stairs and smashed a glass panel as he tried to steady himself . |
| 12 | He slipped on the stairs and smashed a glass panel as he tried to steady himself . |
| 13 | He silenced her with more kisses as he tried to remind himself that this young girl was not only innocent but trusted herself to his care ; that her father trusted him , and however uninhibited she might now appear to be , he must not abuse that faith . |
| 14 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 15 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 16 | In September he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists . |
| 17 | He suffered such terrible symptoms he tried to kill himself . |
| 18 | He tried to kill himself . |
| 19 | Soon after the disaster he tried to kill himself . |
| 20 | He tried to persuade himself that he 'd locked it but he knew he had n't . |
| 21 | In December 1757 he tried to excuse himself ‘ as my abode is at such distance from the place where the Royal Society hold their weekly meetings as to render it not only inconvenient , but unsafe for me to attend them in the winter season. , A month later Ellis countered with , ‘ I scarce think it possible that Mr. Miller should have no one friend in the Society to send him word and , indeed , I had told Rivington to tell Miller I would be glad to discuss the matter at Fulham , and Miller ignored it . ’ |
| 22 | But now he tried to calm himself : there was no reason for nerves , he told himself . |
| 23 | He tried to prise himself off the chair , as the figure moved towards him . |
| 24 | Spanswick , 50 , returned a few minutes later with a mash hammer and delivered blows to Mr Curren 's hands as he tried to protect himself . |
| 25 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 26 | He tried to compose himself , first-with a psalm , ‘ Exsurge Domine , Exsurge et vindica causam meam — Rise , oh Lord , rise and judge my cause . ’ |
| 27 | He tried to compose himself and go over in his mind the details of what had taken place almost a month before . |
| 28 | While Patsy silently and privately swore his revenge as he tried to scrub himself clean . |
| 29 | He tried to drag himself through the mud but he only sank more deeply into it . |
| 30 | He tried to lever himself up in the bed . |