Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , to emphasise the personal and private nature of moral or immoral conduct is to emphasise the personal and private responsibility of the individual for his own actions , and this is a responsibility which a mature agent can properly be expected to carry for himself without the threat of punishment from the law . |
| 2 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 3 | Max Gate , the house Hardy designed for himself on the edge of town , is stranded behind a new roundabout and it is difficult now to imagine him setting out from there to ride along the lanes with Kipling or H. G. Wells . |
| 4 | His prosperity is shown by the ‘ magnificent dwelling house ’ which he built for himself on the north Thames frontage immediately to the east of the Fleet canal . |
| 5 | When Blanche and Dexter arrived he was mumbling to himself on the side of the bed , hands clasped in the lap of his dressing gown . |
| 6 | The temple bells were clanging to their climax as Ramlal hurried past the door , clutching his precious document , and laughing to himself at the thought that the God had got nothing from him at all . |
| 7 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 8 | Mairi complained , wishing that Ranald was still at home , and Ranald repeated the need to Hector ; who thought about it , and then started to come down himself with the youngsters . |
| 9 | Well wha what he does is is he looks at himself in the mirror something like that and er he sees sees the body he 's jumped into . |
| 10 | I was saying , oh yeah erm Shrimpy like , we , me and Scott were playing snooker and I , I came in to see if like , either of you , anyone else wanted to play doubles and like , Swimp , Shrimpy was just sat by himself in the middle of the floor , cross-legged just sat there like a little pixie or something ! |
| 11 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
| 12 | This was because human beings worked things out in their minds in terms of concepts and moral rules , and these concepts and rules were not things the individual made for himself on the spur of the moment . |
| 13 | In his latter years he created an elaborate water garden at the cottage ornée he had built for himself on the outskirts of Plymouth , and was wont to drive round the streets of the town in a gig disguised as a Roman war chariot , looking , in Wightwick 's words ‘ ( as far as his true English face and costume allowed ) like Ictinus of the Parthenon , ‘ out for a lark ’ . ’ |
| 14 | In the summer of 1939 Boulestin left as usual to spend his holidays in the house he had built for himself in the Landes . |
| 15 | In 1829–30 , like his father before him , he served as mayor of Kendal , and in addition to the house he had built for himself in the town ( c .1823 ) he had a country property in Lindale , Lancashire , which he inherited from his father , and he later built an occasional residence in nearby Grange-over-Sands . |
| 16 | Quiet , never shouting about himself to the world . |
| 17 | He shook his head and clucked to himself like the White Rabbit in Alice . |
| 18 | He ran a glass under the kitchen tap , then returned to the living room and , looking at himself in the full-length mirror all the while , stood there naked , shaking violently as if with cold , and poured himself and drank three glasses of water without stopping . |
| 19 | He wandered off round the room , looking at himself in the mirrors and pulling faces and laughing . |
| 20 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |
| 21 | Allen could look after himself in the forest . |
| 22 | For centuries , man has thought of himself as the most highly evolved form of life on earth , using his five senses to build up a composite and highly complex picture of the world around him . |
| 23 | The image Hitler portrayed of himself at the Nuremberg Rally was clearly consonant with the wide acceptance of the broad principles of legal discrimination and racial segregation , and with the satisfaction generally felt at the ending of the open brutality and pogrom-like anti Jewish disturbances of the vulgar anti-Semites . |
| 24 | She had been nineteen when her mother died , old enough to notice how poor old Pa seemed to shrink inside himself at the time . |
| 25 | In the late twentieth century , therefore , people may find the mystical experiment , which also urges the adept to look within himself for the truth and warns against the danger of simplistic ideas and projections about God , a more attractive form of religion than the more conventional and dogmatic types of faith . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , he never lets anyone over the door and he sees to himself for the most part . |
| 27 | There is nobody here who ca n't wake up in the morning and look at himself in the mirror . ’ |
| 28 | One reaches over my shoulder and cranes his neck so that he can look at himself in the mirror . |
| 29 | Every morning , the first thing Narcissus did when he woke up was to look at himself in the mirror . |
| 30 | Shakespeare 's technique , to let us into a secret that the hero will only discover for himself at the end , is a common one in playwriting and storytelling . |