Example sentences of "himself [prep] the end " in BNC.

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1 But even as he braced himself for the end , Robin took a remarkable last photograph of himself for his family .
2 Paul blames himself for the end of their relationship .
3 In skill training the opposite can apply , the trainee is persuaded to be flexible and to orient himself towards the end rather than the means .
4 That the Assembly could depose and fine them at no notice , as happened to Pericles himself towards the end of his life , shows that the Assembly was theoretically and actually master .
5 When Chandler nearly scored himself near the end , Shaw , the former First Division goalkeeper with Bristol City , made the best save of the evening .
6 I thought he 'd find a way for himself in the end .
7 Keith goes for the goal line , looks around , he 's all by himself in the end zone and he does his patented wiggle , the ancient dance of triumph and sex , all hips and contained muscle and bursting joy , forget the penalty , celebrating his touchdown and his run and his body , and little Jimmy Grady from the fourth year is standing on the path looking at him .
8 He chased them in Australia last year , tried to hunt them down at the Arms Park in the World Cup , but found himself on the end of the heaviest Welsh defeats home and away .
9 Shakespeare 's technique , to let us into a secret that the hero will only discover for himself at the end , is a common one in playwriting and storytelling .
10 The armourers all slept in a long room on the first floor , with J. in a small room to himself at the end , and it so happened that Matthew occupied the corresponding small room immediately underneath on the ground floor .
11 He then enjoys himself at the end of the book , looking to the future from various standpoints .
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