Example sentences of "himself [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He broke himself off a thick stick from a tree behind him and looked all round again . |
| 2 | However , once Leopold relinquished his role of chaperone and travelling companion and the adolescent Wolfgang found himself off the parental leash , he promptly set about indulging all his hitherto repressed impulses , just like any other high-spirited teenager . |
| 3 | I have no doubt that during the general election campaign the chairman of the Tory party will be spreading himself about a little bit , even though he has a tiny majority in Bath . |
| 4 | And getting to it can mean one man hauling himself through a two-foot tunnel for half an hour in six inches of water . |
| 5 | Then he eased himself through the narrow gap feet first , and dropped lightly to the floor . |
| 6 | The wish for a ‘ god ’ may have been the unavoidable outcome of the fact that the developing human being , in his desire-motivated influence on evolution , had to reproduce himself through the mammalian process . |
| 7 | Its system of display and retrieval must therefore be such that this kind of learning can proceed : that the individual user can , to a very great extent , progress himself through the various pathways to knowledge provided by the library , with the minimum of unnecessary difficulty and the maximum reinforcement . |
| 8 | Dragging himself through the daily routine which gets him into his beige-toned synthetic fibres and out of his neo-neo house , he roars off in his Jag ( number plate , VIC 100 ) , fag in mouth , Carly Simon on cassette , ready to take on the world . |
| 9 | In the front hall — in case any burglar should choose to throw himself through the fireproof glass in the window or slice through the mortise lock with a flame gun — was a selection of things to trip over . |
| 10 | However , he appreciated the cathartic nature of expressing himself through the written word . |
| 11 | She could hear him repeating phrases to himself through the thin wall between her room and his . |
| 12 | He seems , on his own initiative , to have put himself through an extensive course of classics , modern languages and English literature , a combination of subjects that it was not then possible to offer at any university . |
| 13 | Having outlived Dean and Adams , Hopper indulged himself during the early seventies in autobiographical ego trips that nobody went to see like The Last Movie and The American Dreamer . |
| 14 | Ewart last made the news himself during the Soviet coup in August 1991 . |
| 15 | Has he learned or discovered anything about himself during the past four years ? |
| 16 | ‘ Come in , ’ he called in a low voice , expecting Clare , and steeling himself for a long and exhausting reconciliation . |
| 17 | Christopher Gill ( Member for Ludlow and a Midlands businessman ) , as has been mentioned in Chapter 6 , has concerned himself for a long time with what were once seen to be obscure constitutional issues of subsidiarity . |
| 18 | Peter hesitated in the hall , not so much to eavesdrop as to prepare himself for a noiseless ascent of the stairs . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 20 | The Italian was in the process of being shown the red card himself for a crunching tackle on Walsh when the Pompey striker hit back angrily . |
| 21 | He was preparing himself for a British Council tour of France but it was cancelled at the last moment ; he did , however , fly to Amsterdam and then on to Rome in December under the auspices of the same organization . |
| 22 | The horse jumped forward a few paces with his limbs bunched up and then , holding himself for a brief moment in a static rear , galloped off in sheer terror down the path . |
| 23 | Amiss cursed himself for a soft-hearted fool . |
| 24 | He had no time for the cant of the priests about sin , but he knew , as he lay in the barracks hearing the grunts and panting of his companions , that he was honing himself for a superior form by refusing his body . |
| 25 | Meanwhile he readied himself for a sixteen-tooth smile . |
| 26 | He gathered himself for a giant leap and SPRONG ! landed right in the middle of the sleeping ducks . |
| 27 | He himself had drunk one quick light beer before excusing himself for an early night . |
| 28 | Round , high-cheeked , boyish but with a scholar 's high brow , it was the face of a man of twenty-seven years of age nerving himself for an extreme deed , a supreme effort of will . |
| 29 | No wonder Edward , in order to protect suitors from ecclesiastical censures or reprisals , made available a new form of the writ which was issued ‘ on behalf of many ’ — ex relatu plurium — in which he substituted himself for the unnamed petitioner or petitioners ; this form of the writ enjoyed wider popularity after the Council of Reading . |
| 30 | He blames himself for the 35-yard rocket from Paul Gascoigne that ripped through his grasp after just five minutes . |