Example sentences of "himself through " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believes that a writer will often find himself through exposure to some other writer . |
| 2 | Eliot was able to ‘ recognise himself through someone other ’ — a changeable other , but at one point it was the Frenchman Laforgue . |
| 3 | She could hear him repeating phrases to himself through the thin wall between her room and his . |
| 4 | Dragging himself through the daily routine which gets him into his beige-toned synthetic fibres and out of his neo-neo house , he roars off in his Jag ( number plate , VIC 100 ) , fag in mouth , Carly Simon on cassette , ready to take on the world . |
| 5 | Believing that an artist has to suffer to make his statement , he puts himself through dangerous sequences like cutting off his breathing . |
| 6 | All this is God 's doing , for he has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ ; and he has made us agents of the reconciliation . ’ 2 Corinthians 5:17 |
| 7 | He tried to drag himself through the mud but he only sank more deeply into it . |
| 8 | Picked up a revolver and shot himself through the head . ’ |
| 9 | The only mishap was that in forcing himself through the gap , he nudged the twig and the falling window struck him on the head . |
| 10 | Then he dragged himself through the crowds to a quiet cranny of the Ibis Boat Club at Chiswick . |
| 11 | doctrine , and a view was subsequently promoted that a child could not do drama until he first learnt to express himself through movement . |
| 12 | They have to find a way of expressing their confidence that God reveals Himself through His activity in the world , without making Him into a person like ourselves . |
| 13 | This was a variation on the routine he would put himself through every time after a man he had just slept with had left the flat ; he would check his body for scratches , bruises and teethmarks . |
| 14 | However , he appreciated the cathartic nature of expressing himself through the written word . |
| 15 | But that was as far as you could go and often he became in a rather dubious position himself through doing that sort of thing . |
| 16 | Yanto watched the smoke from his cigarette drift lazily up the shaft of the sunbeam which bathed Molly and himself through a gap in the greenery above . |
| 17 | Kenrick Wynne-Jones was altogether less turbulent He understood the art of getting along with politicians , and found a power base for himself through friendship with the Labour leaders of the day from the North , such as Ted short and Lord Glenamara . |
| 18 | The wish for a ‘ god ’ may have been the unavoidable outcome of the fact that the developing human being , in his desire-motivated influence on evolution , had to reproduce himself through the mammalian process . |
| 19 | He was a lot smaller then and he managed to squeeze himself through a cavity and found himself in a network of very small , narrow tunnels — far too small for most adults to enter . |
| 20 | God has revealed himself through his Spirit in his Word , and he continues to do so . |
| 21 | Quinn announced himself through the entryphone , aware he was being scanned by the overhead video-camera . |
| 22 | He seems , on his own initiative , to have put himself through an extensive course of classics , modern languages and English literature , a combination of subjects that it was not then possible to offer at any university . |
| 23 | The lover of power is attracted to the viewpoint of the strongest , the one who can , even if he graciously refrains , force others to act against their wills ; he may himself achieve power , or fantasize it , or in consciousness of impotence prefer to look down on himself through the eyes of real or imaginary conquerors . |
| 24 | Police were called to the shop in Southampton after a passer-by spotted Urben lowering himself through the roof into the showroom . |
| 25 | Although he is happy with his lifestyle and a wages and bonuses package which earns him £30,000 a week , Walker 's evasive attitude and reluctance to project himself through the media has not endeared him to the locals . |
| 26 | There must be something in this : when morning came , amid some laughter , my husband re-enacted the closing chapter of the old year by going up into the rafters and suspending himself through the hole so that I could take photographs . |
| 27 | One , keen to express himself through hard work , sees that his only choice is to ‘ better myself and pick my life up . |
| 28 | It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels . |
| 29 | The new hero , like Don Quixote , gets it wrong by study , but unlike Quixote he gets it right ( more or less ) by living , and he characteristically needs to educate himself by life after having partly de-educated himself through books . |
| 30 | And all of the family starting to watch the boy more closely as he sailed or forced himself through one limit after the other — a talent , it was beginning to seem , in every pocket . |