Example sentences of "himself like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raskolnikov does n't put it to himself like that . |
| 2 | Sometimes he talks in a foreign language — you know , just to himself like . |
| 3 | A tramp of extravagant delapidation , who attaches himself like a dog , punctuates silences with spit then suddenly , on the crest of a belch , intones in an astonishingly cultivated voice , ‘ Agnus Dei , qui tollis peccata mundi , miserere nobis ’ . |
| 4 | While others were being lionised he conducted himself like a lamb or even a mouse . |
| 5 | Ranald was first in the door , the water fair drip-dripping off him , and shakes himself like a dog . |
| 6 | ‘ He was a medieval scholar and he loved physical activity , punishing himself like the medieval saints . |
| 7 | Roger in his farm attire — leather jerkin and gaiters , and well-cut riding breeches — held himself like a soldier , unwittingly displaying his strength of nerve and muscle . |
| 8 | Holden seemed particularly nervous , repeating his lines over and over to himself like a raw newcomer terribly afraid he might forget how to deliver when the time came . |
| 9 | His flesh was red and raw , but even after wounding himself like that , which must have been pretty painful , he did n't stop . |
| 10 | The young man — not a man at all , in fact , but a boy dressed like a man , bearing himself like a man — made a strange gesture : holding one hand at head-height , he struck it with the other , palm against palm , a glancing blow . |
| 11 | He wrapped his arms round himself like a boy hugging a secret but he was so excited it came spilling out of him . |
| 12 | When he came to a stream or a fallen tree trunk , he would launch himself like a ballet dancer , but in slow motion , and land as softly as if his feet were scatter cushions . |
| 13 | You will need a detective , be it a police officer or some individual caught up for good reason in the investigation , who is capable of seeing deeply into people 's characters , of putting himself like Simenon 's Maigret into , not so much other people 's hoes , as into other people 's minds and souls . |
| 14 | So too this gnawing of himself like a fox caught in a trap forced to bite off its leg and for pain , every few moments raising its face to howl at the sky . |
| 15 | God only knew how he had tried to replace her in his thoughts and in his heart — striking relationships with one woman after another , lurching from one crisis to the next , building his business with her in mind … driving himself like a man demented and amassing a fortune , yet knowing all the time that he was striving for the impossible . |
| 16 | He sounded to himself like some tendentious student with balloon words coming out of his mouth . |
| 17 | ‘ Has anyone ever come up to you and introduced himself like that before ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Has anyone ever come up to you and introduced himself like that before ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ No power on earth is greater , and the Yasa is his to do as he — ’ not for a Kha-Khan to amuse himself like a selfish child . ’ |
| 20 | curled on himself like a wild creature , |
| 21 | She felt him gather himself like a beast on the powerful springs of its limbs . |
| 22 | He stood in it , his clothes and skin steaming , dripping water into the urine-scented callbox , called her number , listened to it ring , called again , saying the numbers to himself like a chant , making sure his finger was in the right hole on the dial each time . |
| 23 | For a moment I thought he was about to dare to let himself like me , but the wife was watching , alas . |
| 24 | He ran a finger around his neck and shook himself like a dog settling itself inside its collar . |
| 25 | This time Sir John woke , shaking himself like a dog , mouthing the most terrible curses . |
| 26 | Their passion precluded tenderness , their lovemaking nearly fighting , and Maria could almost believe that that was really what it was , else how could Luke continue to deny her and himself like this ? |
| 27 | Rincewind , coiling himself like a spring , gave a standing jump and grasped a beam , swinging himself up into the relative safety of the roof with a strength that amazed him . |
| 28 | This man was lodging himself like an irritating burr under her skin . |
| 29 | Deep as a well , and for all his strength and prowess — for he could hold his own with any boy of his age , afoot or on horseback , when he chose — looking and bearing himself like a clerk , and sometimes even like a clerk in orders . |
| 30 | He shook his head and clucked to himself like the White Rabbit in Alice . |