Example sentences of "he [vb -s] himself [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE stubborn candidature of Mr John Browne for Winchester would be comic were it not also deceitful — he proclaims himself the Conservative in all his literature — and dangerous to the Tory interest in a desperately close election . |
| 2 | He allows himself a carefully selected smile , humorous , equal to equal , and goes on , the ease of his words belied by the hurry of his delivery and the force of his grip on her arm . |
| 3 | In his exchange with Nastasya he reveals himself an underground man who has wandered into a nineteenth-century naturalistic novel , a bohemian Hamlet . |
| 4 | He calls himself a ‘ stopper , ’ with his greatest ability being able to pounce on anything earthbound that should cross his territory , but he also has a fine pair of catching hands , and he took many full-blooded cuts and slashes through the expansive point area during the World Cup . |
| 5 | He calls himself a ‘ midwife ’ , and like a midwife , has only a temporary and external role to play in the process of birth . |
| 6 | And now he finds himself the man who carries the main hopes of millions of GP crazy Spanish fans . |
| 7 | Despite his flight across continents , he finds himself an ‘ eternal witness to massacre ’ . |
| 8 | In relation to the Irish worker , he feels himself a member of the ruling nation and so turns himself into a tool of the aristocrats and capitalists of his country against Ireland , thus strengthening their domination over himself . |
| 9 | An expert can now make a final determination about the construction of documents provided he asks himself the right question . |
| 10 | No finer example of this can be seen than Castle Acre Priory , 1935 , in which the gaunt power of the medieval ruins is starkly silhouetted against the sky , and he permits himself a rare range of tonal contrast . |
| 11 | He was once a social security Minister and he does himself no credit by forgetting that there are two sides to every argument . |
| 12 | He promises himself an easier workout tomorrow . |
| 13 | He considers himself an expert on the subject now and confirms that what Horatia says is entirely possible . " |
| 14 | He considers himself the victim of a plot , regards the asylum as Hades , and refuses to accept that he is mad . |