Example sentences of "and [v-ing] himself [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norman also got up and down from another bunker for a 69 and 277 , spending the next 30 minutes waiting , watching and keeping himself loose with a few twists and turns for the play-off that never happened . |
| 2 | He used the chainsword as a mountaineer uses an ice pick : he clung to the platform with his left hand , and brought the chainsword up and then down again , grinding it into the metal structure of the vehicle and pulling himself forward centimetre by centimetre . |
| 3 | Well he 's so busy about to do it and getting himself ready to do it , that he is gon na do it though |
| 4 | Loyonel , he 's there , leaning on the machine and stuffing himself sick . |
| 5 | In 1963 he turned to the theatre , directing Titus Andronicus and other plays at the Birmigham Rep , and showing himself adept at producing the intimate and affable atmosphere of the small screen on stage . |
| 6 | Only minutes earlier , the gentle giant was in the bar chatting with friends and fans , the next he 's on stage and screaming himself raw as the tortured madman at the wheel of the flaming incandescence that is Into Paradise live . |
| 7 | He could not face that prospect and took his own life by covering himself in petrol and setting himself alight . |
| 8 | He suffered burns to his upper body after dousing himself in flammable liquid and setting himself alight outside the offices of former girlfriend Sandra Sturgiss . |