Example sentences of "himself before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cinema manager grooms himself before the main feature |
| 2 | Half-jokingly , but with a certain edge , Moran said that Great Meadow was so deserted that he himself might have to remove himself before long to her house . |
| 3 | He bent and twisted himself before it , jerking suddenly this way and that , as if he were lying in wait for disease , determined to pounce on it before it could strike . |
| 4 | Farr-Jones was clearly in a mood to enjoy himself before joining the Barbarians to take on the All Blacks at Twickenham on Saturday . |
| 5 | In the past six years he has represented himself before 34 High Court judges , 25 Masters , 14 Registrars , four stipendary magistrates , two Justices of the Peace , and four Scottish sheriffs Yesterday was his 239th court appearance . |
| 6 | The need did not arise because the man referred to would be here himself before long . |
| 7 | His reading was hesitant owing to a stammer that tied his tongue whenever he was expected to give account of himself before the rest of the class . |
| 8 | He blinked his pale grey eyes , took a careless look around himself before walking smartly up the driveway to Roirbak 's complex , an array of wafer-thin data cards — the discerning burglar 's equivalent of a crowbar — ready to hand . |
| 9 | Alfonso took the oath , but he never forgave Rodrigo for forcing him to humble himself before the rest of his vassals . |
| 10 | In 1182 , he asked formally for pardon , prostrating himself before Barbarossa . |
| 11 | Benstede swept through the hall and tactfully presented himself before this array of the most powerful magnates in Scotland . |
| 12 | He laid the picture down and seated himself before the table . |
| 13 | It told him to come to the court on a certain day to defend himself before a Commissioner and the man who said he owed him money . |
| 14 | Martin Luther , excommunicated by the Pope and defending himself before the Emperor , closes his statement with the celebrated words : ‘ My conscience is taken captive by God 's word , I can not and will not recant anything . |
| 15 | Mr Mellor was a great individualist , always putting on a good performance for the cameras , but he put himself before the Cabinet team . |
| 16 | Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown stepped up the onslaught but his Commons demand that the Chancellor should be dragged to explain himself before MPs was unsuccessful . |
| 17 | One contestant was knocked out of the ring and into the orchestra pit , landing in the mouth of the big bass horn and unable to extricate himself before the count of 10 . |
| 18 | He may have then reeled backwards and put his bloody hands on the wall to support himself before carrying on with his killing spree . |
| 19 | And I 'm an optimist — I think man will save himself before totally dissolving . |
| 20 | The huge Marine — so much more distinguished in his uniform than any motley planetary trooper — planted himself before Yeremi like some human pillar that ten such troopers would be hard put to tumble , should they be so suicidally inclined . |
| 21 | Anyone who handled the King 's money was ‘ charged ’ with the revenues he had received or collected and had to acquit himself before the Barons of the Exchequer by showing what he had done with it . |
| 22 | However , the farm worker rarely achieves what is necessary to bring himself before the attention of the public . |
| 23 | Joseph himself had attracted more laughter by excusing himself before dinner and going directly to horses ; there he had fallen immediately into a deep , peaceful sleep that lasted until the dawn cries of the jungle birds roused him , and when he rose he had felt clear-headed and exultant . |
| 24 | William would be lucky to extricate himself before midnight . |
| 25 | But seven years later in 1935 , on the eve of the Italian invasion , while the war drums were beating outside the palace to summon the nation to war , an old man presented himself before the Emperor . |
| 26 | He had tried to kill himself before being arrested . |
| 27 | Athelstan stopped to compose himself before continuing : ‘ When it was over , my brother was dead and I had aged a hundred years . |
| 28 | He prinked himself before the glass where formerly he had gazed . |
| 29 | He was himself before the journalists — which the General had n't been — and because of that he came over well , that is unaffectedly . |
| 30 | One of many photographers who had been lurking among the azaleas seemed to take hope at the sight of such an obviously affectionate couple and presented himself before them . |