Example sentences of "he [verb] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kane , in creating the world , did not , like Yahweh , make light : he made himself into light . |
| 2 | I did n't re I thought he actually made a person , I did n't realize he made himself into a person . |
| 3 | ‘ He made himself at home . |
| 4 | Pushing his briefcase aside , he lowered himself into a chair , rested his elbow on the back , and crossed one leg over the other . |
| 5 | After a moment 's hesitation she sat in one of the large armchairs , half expecting to be pushed on to the settee , but he allowed her to sit alone , only raising an eyebrow as he lowered himself into the matching chair . |
| 6 | He looked to belong to a different generation from that of Dysart and Ockleton , his face flushed and lined beneath a mane of grey hair , his chest heaving desperately as he lowered himself into the wheelchair . |
| 7 | Then he lowered himself into the driving seat , slowly and painfully , and pulled the door shut . |
| 8 | He lowered himself into an old leather chair and continued chewing while he waited . |
| 9 | Beside a muddy pool in a shadow-dappled patch of jungle where faint feeding tracks had finally petered out , he lowered himself onto a fallen log . |
| 10 | He lowered himself to his knees , and , sniffing hungrily , richly … |
| 11 | Walking to the far end of the cells passage , he lowered himself to the floor until he was sitting with his back to the wall facing the door with its broken lock hanging askew . |
| 12 | He lowered himself in the saddle , then turned , looking back at her . |
| 13 | He aligned himself with the workers , the rebels at the barricades , with Zola and Michelet and the students of 1848 . |
| 14 | He aligned himself with the Social Christian Party for the 1990 elections , saying that Nicaragua should be free from the influence of the superpowers . |
| 15 | He aligned himself with the traditional view that the Scriptures describe unseen things by the form of visible things so as to stimulate reason in cognitive understanding , itself a spiritual reality which is an image of full contemplative knowledge . |
| 16 | From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London . |
| 17 | Actually , thought Henry , as he checked himself in the mirror , no one , not even the police , would be stupid enough to imagine that Elinor could be the victim of a crime passionnel . |
| 18 | If Felipe thought she would take the husband off his hands while he amused himself with Candace he was very much mistaken ! |
| 19 | He amused himself during his visit writing doggerel about the Revd Fullwood Smerdon , his father 's successor , and returned to Cambridge reflecting with distaste on Devonshire people : |
| 20 | In the meantime he amused himself by feeding Dwarf captives to Gobbla , the enormous , malodorous and psychopathically vicious Cave Squig which he kept firmly chained to his left leg . |
| 21 | He sang aloud , in what he amused himself by imagining was a passable accent , ‘ Oh you tak the high road and I 'll tak the low . |
| 22 | He hugged himself in self-pity as we took in this alien race dressed with an abandonment and originality we 'd never imagined possible . |
| 23 | He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door . |
| 24 | He plunged himself into all this and more , avidly reading everything that came his way ; especially poetry , and not least Spanish , Chinese and Japanese poets in translation , but chiefly that of Federico Garçia Lorca and W.B. Yeats , of whom he mused , ‘ I loved Yeats ; his connections ( such an important code-word with Leonard ! ) his rhythms . ’ |
| 25 | Nigel made many enemies and no friends with these pieces , but he prided himself on his integrity . |
| 26 | In his own bed in Mill Hill Rufus used a sheath or practised coitus interruptus , which he prided himself on being rather good at . |
| 27 | As he prided himself on his fair and honest trading , and the high standards which he always maintained except in extenuating circumstances , the ginger-haired totter had decided he should do the right thing by her . |
| 28 | He prided himself on being a very well esteemed member of the British community . |
| 29 | He prided himself on his fluency in the tongue , but the stranger only looked bemused . |
| 30 | Like the previous management of the Dee Hall , he prided himself upon being ‘ a good employer ’ and was generous in terms of sick pay and sympathetic and understanding towards employees with family problems . |