Example sentences of "himself of " in BNC.
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| 31 | His first impulse was to throw it away , to rid himself of anything that might link him with Maidstone and Maidstone 's death . |
| 32 | The commission considered that ‘ no producer should be entitled to rid himself of all responsibility for the waste simply by handing it over to a contractor for disposal ’ , and it recommended that the duty should be enshrined in legislation . |
| 33 | Diogenes , instead of building his own success and fulfilling himself , did the opposite and stripped himself of all pride so that there was no way anyone could hurt him . |
| 34 | One of the greatest gifts known to man is the one he can give himself of a joyous heart and it can come from no one else , for it comes from the springs of a man 's own spirit . |
| 35 | George used to sprinkle nuts on the floor to warn himself of officers coming in . |
| 36 | Furthermore , should the specified remedial works be carried out , and the odour emission continue , in any further proceedings , in respect of a statutory nuisance within s.92(1) ( c ) or s.92(1) ( d ) , the odour emitter could avail himself of the defence of best practicable means provided by s.94(4) and s.94(5) respectively . |
| 37 | Certainly nothing would be gained if action was taken under s.92(1) ( d ) of the Public Health Act 1936 , as the defendant would be able to avail himself of the defence of best practicable means provided by s.94(5) of the Public Health Act 1936 . |
| 38 | So , together with his engraving , etching and aquatinting materials and his pigments for colours which he always mixed carefully himself , it was in the summer of 1800 that he decided to go north ( to the Lakes ) to begin once again and to try to rid himself of all he had learnt over the last decade and ‘ to adhere as faithfully as possible to nature . |
| 39 | He was , and clearly remained to the last days of his long life , a fairly severe obsessional-rigid , indecisive , racked with doubts and unable to rid himself of a penchant for rather down-market women which led him into a series of miserable relationships . |
| 40 | His inability to rid himself of the woman is a recurrent theme , even though a psychoanalytic institute in the US ( where for some reason another analyst has written a book which presents the patient as a great therapeutic success ) actually sent him money regularly so that he could pay her off when she got too demanding . |
| 41 | His deafness debarred him from lectures , and he was unable to avail himself of the help of tutors , but he persevered and he graduated in 1911 , overnight becoming front-page news as the only deaf man ( then ) to achieve the academic distinction of Master of Arts of Cambridge University . |
| 42 | The work has voices in the first two movements , but is essentially for solo organ , dazzlingly played by Gaston Litaize , who clearly enjoys himself of the magnificent beast which lives in the church of St. Francois-Xavier in Paris . |
| 43 | As he pushed the calf 's head towards the udder he spat to rid himself of the polluting sight of birth . |
| 44 | When it is done , he will rid himself of us both . |
| 45 | For a moment , he almost wished he were at home , but then he shook his head as if to rid himself of the thought . |
| 46 | He rubbed his eyes as if to rid himself of thoughts of Kelly Connor . |
| 47 | He designed Horbury 's elegant Parish Church of St Peter and St Leonard , with its distinctive six-stage tower and had it built at a cost to himself of £8,000 in 1790–1794 . ’ |
| 48 | He assures himself of my guilt . |
| 49 | He reminded himself of Hugo 's dedication , his wisdom , his kindness and his wit . |
| 50 | The Delphic Oracle advised Hercules that the only way to rid himself of her curse was to undertake twelve gruelling tasks . |
| 51 | Mr James ‘ Jimmy ’ Nail , the thespian of unrestricted growth who gives working people his Spender , has been generously delivering himself of his Weltschmerz . |
| 52 | He seems at times to be reassuring himself of his grip upon a world of his own devising . |
| 53 | The logical structure admittedly is independent of the desires of the thinker , but the drive behind it is an enthusiasm , or an obsession to rid himself of an intolerable burden ; at the point when we notice there is no more joy or stress in his thinking , that it has become a routine , we begin to be afraid that his creative phase his passed . |
| 54 | BEST PERFORMANCE BY A SEXUAL BEING : Woody Allen , for ridding himself of the insipid waif and compulsive adopter Mia Farrow by bedding her adopted daughter Egg Foo Yong , or whatever her name was . |
| 55 | To rid himself of some of the frustration , Wright , who I know and like , should look for a solution very close to Highbury in Alan Smith . |
| 56 | Time at last to rid himself of the name ‘ Marwood ’ for good and all : he told the officiating minister , Alfred Martell , to write him down as ‘ James Henry Titford ’ . |
| 57 | Feeling himself very much at a crossroads , he delivered himself of some reflections on the modern times they were living through . |
| 58 | To be branded an unfeeling brute reinforced the image he had made for himself of a man who was dog-rough , ‘ a foul beast ’ , unfit for human company , not to be tolerated in civilised drawing rooms . |
| 59 | Shocking as the assault had been , it had prepared her for another encounter — an encounter with a youth of her own age , bewildered and uneasy , one called to high estate who found himself of a sudden alone on the edge of an abyss … |
| 60 | But the needs of his body , so long suppressed , caused him to avail himself of her a second time , and towards the end he felt himself impregnate her . |