Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he is afraid of compromising himself in the eyes of Messrs Goupil and Co by keeping in touch with me , is his position with those gentlemen so shaky and unstable that he is obliged to be so careful ? ’ |
| 2 | But whereas the long version refers only to the words in Lamentations 1:12 ( O all ye that pass by the way , attend , and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow ) , the short version incorporates all the references to focus more sharply on the organic relationship between man and Christ whose natural growth is blasted by sin : And only in the short version does the meditator acknowledge this by identifying himself with the penitent thief pleading for pardon to be extended to him , and confessing his failure to acknowledge Christ as the true source of his integrity : In both versions the meditator admits that the very ability to recognise the life-giving power in Christ is a sign that he in fact has the love of God even if he does not feel it : And in both , as the meditator sees his betrayal and sense of deprivation borne by Christ in His words : " My god , my dere god , why hastow al forsakyn me … ( 89. cf.102 ) he imagines himself lying down among the bones of dead men on mount Calvary , taking the foot of the Cross in his arms , the stench of death in his nostrils . |
| 3 | Wessels overcame his country 's sporting isolation in the 80s by turning himself into cricket 's most infamous mercenary . |
| 4 | A Devil , mischievous , destructive but lovable , appears and contrives by various ruses , such as that of disguising himself as a beautiful girl , to amuse himself in causing havoc and death among the soldiers and finally , by playing furiously upon his violin , to force the villagers to dance to death . |
| 5 | In his public utterances Bohr was always very cautious about committing himself to what it is that actually is . |
| 6 | Furthermore , Henry was not content with investing himself with merely an administrative and political imperium , but also claimed a spiritual supremacy , arguing that the monarch was the vicar of God . |
| 7 | Morceli says he is ‘ 80 per cent ’ confident of providing himself with the perfect 23rd birthday present by eclipsing Eamonn Coghlan 's ten-year-old mile mark of 3min 49.78sec but Norman believes other records will also tumble , with Colin Jackson in the 60m hurdles and Murray providing the British challenge . |
| 8 | But the Collector was no better at suspecting himself of faults than of virtues . |
| 9 | He himself was convinced that they were separate entities , and decided to prove this once and for all by inoculating himself with pus from a patient with a gonococcal discharge . |
| 10 | If he had n't been so hasty in consoling himself with Lexy , she would have rushed ahead with her usual blind enthusiasm , forgetting all the lessons her broken engagement had taught her . |
| 11 | In the most serious cases , a field man will always be concerned with covering himself in deciding whether or not to take a formal sample . |
| 12 | He sat for more than an hour alone before dragging himself to the room , shutting the doors loudly behind him as he went . |
| 13 | The ultimate accolade caps a dramatic rise for Platt who was rejected by Manchester United before establishing himself in the game with Crewe , then joining Taylor at Aston Villa and then going onto Juventus via Bari . |
| 14 | Highly successful in commending himself to a variety of audiences and communicating his project with the Dhalit people . |
| 15 | Meanwhile the other lawyer was growing impatient with Bartocci for allowing himself to be imposed upon in this way by his pushy and unscrupulous colleague instead of attending to his utterly reasonable request for bail or a visitor 's pass or access to official files . |
| 16 | He became adept at launching himself over the canoe 's side ; first leaning back with legs outstretched athwart the cockpit , a quick flip of the body brought him face down towards the water before lowering himself onto it . |
| 17 | Picture Marilyn Monroe , unhappily being all things to innumerable men ; James Jesus Angleton , the master of double deception who drove himself crazy by outguessing himself with Kim Philby , and John Fitzgerald Kennedy , who inaugurated the image of the role-playing , idolized actor-President ; a man capable of making people suspend their disbelief . |
| 18 | He is obviously intent upon amusing himself with two women . |
| 19 | Elek was keen on establishing himself as a quality publisher and commissioned work from other artists beside Minton — Edward Burra , Anthony Gross , Fred Uhlman , William Scott , Edward Bawden and Keith Vaughan . |
| 20 | He was wary of identifying himself to the French people as a " democrat " at a time when democracy was equated with the detested Third Republic . |
| 21 | He had a fraction of a second to be surprised at finding himself in the middle of all this traffic , when up there , that was his road , up there , that 's where he should have been by now . |