Example sentences of "himself with his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Robert Scott is still alive and has sent Dick a hand written description of his first aircraft on the back of a photograph he had of himself with his P-40 . |
| 2 | The native Peruvian , expecting the state to do everything , no longer had to concern himself with his fellow man and had to come to his aid only if required by law … |
| 3 | But ships are too valuable to lie idle for very long , and Robert barely had a month in which to re-acquaint himself with his new wife and pat his young infants on the head before he was leaving John Street and Stepney again — through Limehouse into Poplar and aboard the Orynthia in West India Dock . |
| 4 | ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ has surpassed himself with his new laboratory : the marble table , the nickel taps , the blood-stained porcelain sinks . |
| 5 | More specifically , significant pressure was exerted on Moscow by the Cuban Communist party and by Castro himself with his new policy orientation . |
| 6 | Unluckily , the model begins to identify himself with his divine original and violence threatens . |
| 7 | What is more , the narrator can be seen to strike a ridiculous pose within this text in a way supposedly omitted from the Anglo-Norman fabliaux : drawing attention to himself with his unnecessary , insincere or ignored apostrophes . |
| 8 | He had a kind of surf-board on roller-skates which he used to lie on to slide under the chassis , propelling himself with his padded stump . |
| 9 | I suspect his letters to Taplow produced during his trial were forgeries , whilst Taplow himself with his tenuous links with Buckingham was used as a catspaw . |
| 10 | It becomes easy to picture himself and Boswell here , their servant outside holding the horse 's head , while Johnson 's taxi , his post-chaise , waited : ‘ The arch of one of the gates is entire , and another only so far dilapidated as to diversify the appearance , ; Sam himself with his famous stick prodding in the weeds , gauging the cut of the stone as he might examine the shoulders of a friend 's new frock-coat , measuring distances , tracing nave , crossing , choir , transept — inhaling meaning and implication , and converting it into judgment and knowledge . |
| 11 | With her free hand , Rosie dexterously rolled the seat knob and fell slowly backwards with Rory spreading over her , repositioning himself with his right leg . |
| 12 | The government had plenty of dope on Mr Dixon , who drew attention to himself with his lavish style of life , including a fleet of fancy jets and fast cars , and a two-week tour of fine French restaurants . |
| 13 | Or let him damn himself with his own words ? |
| 14 | It is as though he is amazing himself with his own lust . |
| 15 | But Jaq girded himself with his own tormented chastity and fired true , from psycannon and bolt gun . |
| 16 | Foster screamed in panic as he felt the cruel steel slice his flesh , and he threw himself bodily away from his attacker , hitting the ground in a rolling break-fall and spraying himself with his own urine as he did so . |
| 17 | Brian did not like parties , according to Alix , and had expressed fears that he would know nobody at the Headleands ' , but this was not so , for he had already engaged himself with his habitual courtesy with old Sir Anthony . |
| 18 | Soon consoled himself with his old flame , did n't he ? |
| 19 | All this was made so that he might obscenely observe himself with his favourite women . |
| 20 | I think he must have struck into himself with his hind foot just there . " |