Example sentences of "himself on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Having made this announcement , my employer put his volumes down on a table , seated himself on the chaise-longue , and stretched out his legs . |
| 32 | During his stay , he set to work himself on the principle divide et impera . |
| 33 | He founded himself on the principle that an alteration of the terms of the lease agreed between the landlord and the assignee binds the original lessee because the assignee has been put into the shoes of the original lessee and can do all such things as the original lessee could have done . |
| 34 | FURLANETTO PRIDES HIMSELF ON THE range of work which he chooses to undertake , particularly recently when he recorded the ‘ other ’ Don Giovanni by Gazzaniga ( see ‘ Opera Reviews ’ in this issue ) . |
| 35 | It was not until Ernest Bloch launched himself on the scene , with Three Jewish Poems in 1913 that ‘ Jewish music ’ per se arrived ; even then it was only half-oriental , half-western in style and colouration . |
| 36 | McLeish found himself on the verge of suggesting that a thoroughly unpleasant time in a New York jail might succeed in curing Tristram where all other methods , including exhortation , loving family support and a spell in a comfortable private hospital in Devon , had failed . |
| 37 | He brightened up , getting the glow of a man who feels himself on the verge of discharging a disagreeable responsibility . |
| 38 | Eric settles himself on the oche . |
| 39 | He ran the company as if he had suddenly and unexpectedly found himself on the footplate of a runaway engine . |
| 40 | A whispered ‘ Yes , ’ and he was back on the verandah , supporting himself on the rail , and bending over as though at any moment he might vomit . |
| 41 | You know , the one where some lumbering forward finds himself on the openside and , just as he is about to get well and truly creamed , he ships the ball — and the whole of the opposition 's back row — over to you ? |
| 42 | ‘ Someone could have hit him and then he fell over and hit himself on the fender or the door-jamb or the bedpost — ’ |
| 43 | He considered himself on the whole a pretty steady person , but the trouble with steadiness was that it could very easily become the humdrum . |
| 44 | He sat and squinted through watering eyes at a coloured , enlarged picture of himself on the wall ahead of him . |
| 45 | Satisfied that the room is empty , he enters quickly , closes the door behind him emphatically , and throws himself on the settee with a groan of weariness . |
| 46 | ‘ And my name 's Ashley Fleming , ’ Ashley said , fearful that Simon might start patting himself on the back yet again . |
| 47 | Minutes later Charlie was outside the tent , buttoning up his jacket before continually slapping himself on the back in an effort to keep warm . |
| 48 | This was because human beings worked things out in their minds in terms of concepts and moral rules , and these concepts and rules were not things the individual made for himself on the spur of the moment . |
| 49 | When , once , he had thought himself on the brink of an alliance for which he yearned , he was suddenly and shatteringly rejected . |
| 50 | Selkirk , stationing himself on the fo'castle , hailed the ship in Scottish and French . |
| 51 | Lugard prided himself on the consideration with which he treated the emirs on his own visits to their courts . |
| 52 | He weighed himself on the bathroom scales . |
| 53 | He could , he supposed , have thrown himself on the mercy of his father and stepmother , but the very idea was abhorrent to him . |
| 54 | Once he had arrived at the Southern Capital , he had proclaimed his loyalty to the old gods loudly and publicly , disowning the Aten and throwing himself on the mercy of the priests of Amun , who even then were growing bold as the revolutionary pharaoh lost his grip both on reality and his empire . |
| 55 | Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit . |
| 56 | Bede , drawing on Canterbury sources , says that when Eadric died , various usurpers or foreign kings plundered the kingdom until the rightful king , Wihtred , son of Ecgberht , established himself on the throne ( HE IV , 26 ) . |
| 57 | Then they and the Russian had deposed him and installed the Shah himself on the throne in 1941 . |
| 58 | Patrick flung himself on the mattress which Sarah was to use , and jumped up and down on his knees , full of boyish energy . |
| 59 | The real benefit of reading Baudelaire himself on the art of his contemporaries is the chance of recovering some of the excitement the poet felt . |
| 60 | ‘ How did you fare , my darling ? ’ he asked her , and took her hand , seating himself on the bed 's edge . |