Example sentences of "for [v-ing] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the other lawyer was growing impatient with Bartocci for allowing himself to be imposed upon in this way by his pushy and unscrupulous colleague instead of attending to his utterly reasonable request for bail or a visitor 's pass or access to official files . |
| 2 | ‘ This self-important manikin simply will not do … a unique combination of vanity , greed , and incompetence … his capacity for deceiving himself about his own motives would seem to be boundless … underdeveloped arm and shoulder muscles … a chronic inability to formulate sublime thoughts … if the production models are not a vast improvement on this pitiful prototype , God help us all … ’ |
| 3 | BEST PERFORMANCE BY A SEXUAL BEING : Woody Allen , for ridding himself of the insipid waif and compulsive adopter Mia Farrow by bedding her adopted daughter Egg Foo Yong , or whatever her name was . |
| 4 | In the period of his presidency Louis Napoleon 's principal concern was to maximize his domestic authority in order to prepare the ground for turning himself into Napoleon III . |
| 5 | Schlick 's murder in 1936 terminated Waismann 's employment and his opportunities for supporting himself by private teaching . |
| 6 | It could also be explained as the product of pride — a disdain for integrating himself into any kind of partisan organization . |
| 7 | Thanks be to God for being what He is , for showing Himself to me … |
| 8 | God 's plan for introducing himself to people in your school involves YOU and all the other Christians in your school in starring roles . |
| 9 | Television and newspapers no longer praise model entrepreneurs but heroic labourers such as Zhang Fuxin , praised for throwing himself into a pit of polluted mud to retrieve a piece of equipment . |
| 10 | Tomkinson had a previous conviction for exposing himself to a woman in 1985 and was given probation in 1990 for assault . |
| 11 | She also failed to notice the board had hired a teacher with convictions for exposing himself to schoolgirls , or ask why a probationary principal was still in place despite pleading guilty to a $21,000 welfare scam . |