Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] himself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick flung himself on the mattress which Sarah was to use , and jumped up and down on his knees , full of boyish energy . |
| 2 | Trent seated himself on the taffrail . |
| 3 | Something tells me he wo n't pass up this opportunity to establish himself as an international . |
| 4 | For a time Malins regarded himself as a Liberal Unionist , but he made policy toward drink the only basis for supporting parliamentary candidates . |
| 5 | Nizan found himself in a curiously paradoxical situation at this juncture . |
| 6 | The male places himself behind the female and pecks at her cloaca . |
| 7 | So having got back to Egypt ( and he was being harried from one end of the Western Desert to the other by Rommel ) Boyce found himself in a caravan which was his headquarters and also where he lived when he received an order to hare back as fast as possible to El Alamein . |
| 8 | ‘ When a dealing is had between a seller like Mr. Lewis and a person who is actually there present before him , then the presumption in law is that there is a contract , even though there is a fraudulent impersonation by the buyer representing himself as a different man than he is . |
| 9 | The barman reinstalled himself behind the jump and enquired after my pleasure . |
| 10 | The story begins on a May morning in 1991 , when Brian Mattison awoke early to see a heron helping himself to a fish breakfast . |
| 11 | He claimed too that the Reeve is presented as indicting the Miller for a judgement he does not make , i.e. that he had criticized the Reeve for being over-ready to see himself as a priest , the agent of God 's punishment , through John 's naive readiness to see himself as a second Noah . |
| 12 | The mathematician propelled himself towards the prone figure some yards away . |
| 13 | His last book , Antonietta , published in 1991 , tells the story of a Stradivarius violin , and Hersey inserted himself as a character . |
| 14 | Nietzsche was not present , but whereas the premiere of Tristan in 1865 had not prompted any discernible reaction in him , on this occasion he took a much livelier interest and during the following months familiarized himself with the work through the score . |
| 15 | Ymor 's ravens were notoriously loyal to their master , to the extent that Withel 's one attempt to promote himself to the rank of greatest thief in Ankh-Morpork had cost their master 's right hand man his left eye . |
| 16 | We must put all our energies into the preparation for Belle Ile while Schellenberg busies himself with the Steiner affair . ’ |
| 17 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 18 | So Bobby found himself on the carpet — on the silk dressing gown — and on Rachel ! |
| 19 | Had he gone to Glastonbury or come back by a secret route to Templecombe to hide himself in the church ? |
| 20 | On the set , Dustin cast himself as the sensible person , whereas Mia was busy ‘ talking to the spirit of Mozart ’ , perhaps under the influence of André Previn ( still married to Dory Previn ) , the conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra , with whom she had recently fallen in love . |
| 21 | Edrich and Close soon went , and on two occasions Roberts found himself on a hat-trick ; the second time , Selvey edged to Greenidge at slip — and he dropped morning was fine and only one more run was added . |
| 22 | Everyone started talking at once , and Mr Appin found himself in a storm of angry questions . |
| 23 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 24 | He opened his eyes to find himself in a dimly-lit tent , seated upon hard muddy grass . |
| 25 | He Anglicized his name and a few years later he was being described as an accountant or merchant 's clerk ; a subsequent attempt to establish himself as a commission agent apparently failed . |
| 26 | Rex drew himself to the business in hand . |
| 27 | While John the Divine describes himself to the seven churches in Asia as your partner in patiently enduring the suffering that comes to those who belong to his Kingdom ’ ( Rev. 1:9 ) . |
| 28 | But come in out of the cold , ’ he said , seeing how the little priest hunched himself like a ruffled bird inside his gown . |
| 29 | JOHN SESSIONS describes himself as an actor , comedian and writer , in that order . |
| 30 | As he turned back the coverlet of the bed where he must sleep alone , Frere consoled himself with the thought that what he was incapable of accomplishing himself might be accomplished for him by time and that providential hand , of which , in his earnest efforts outside the home , he was the faithful instrument . |