Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] himself [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jamie Hill , prosecuting , said Sigsworth had been admitted as a voluntary patient to St Luke 's Hospital in Middlesbrough after presenting himself at North Ormesby police station . |
| 2 | After stuffing himself on mince pies and quaffing all that milk , and getting even tubbier , it 's surprising that Santa can carry all the things the 600,000 ask him for . |
| 3 | R. J. Campbell even had the honour of seeing himself in wax at Madame Tussauds . |
| 4 | 5 April : The Mail on Sunday sets its sleuths onto Lord ( Clive ) Hollick , one of Kinnock 's advisers and chairman of MAI , whom it had wrongly accused the previous week of paying himself in gold bars to avoid tax . |
| 5 | When Harold Wilson succeeded Hugh Gaitskell as party leader in 1963 , he swore he would not make Gaitskell 's mistake of surrounding himself with elite coteries of policy advisers . |
| 6 | At a certain point in his investigations , at the harbour in Trieste , the narrator imagines the pleasure felt by the midshipman who at that moment is explaining the lay-out and workings of his ship to two visitors , giving all the parts of the ship and all the instruments their proper names , which ‘ have no synonyms ’ ( Del Giudice 1983 : 44 ) ; and muses further on his own dreams of navigation , envying the midshipman ‘ the way in which he concentrates on the angle and the height , and his habit of considering himself in relation to something ’ , above all ‘ the exactitude of the chart ’ ( 45 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ But Rickie knows he 's in trouble , big trouble , which is why he suggested this idea of isolating himself at sea . ’ |
| 8 | He , after all , was a member of an unbeaten Edinburgh Academy XV as a 15-year-old before devoting himself to athletics en route to becoming an international sprinter . |
| 9 | The Unfair Contract Terms Act does not totally prohibit the seller from exempting himself from liability for breach of these other terms . |
| 10 | Trent pushed Golden Girl off the beach , swinging the bows round before dragging himself on board . |
| 11 | He returned to Argentina and did menial jobs before putting himself through university in America . |
| 12 | And 29-year-old Andre was only stopped from killing himself in grief at the loss of his beloved Rachel for the sake of his son . |
| 13 | Houdon ( 1741–1828 ) for the directness with which he conveyed a sitter 's presence and personality without obtruding himself between subject and viewer . |
| 14 | Instead of this , Morita spent the time taking clocks apart , listening to Western classical music and preferring to study physics to putting himself into business . |
| 15 | Prince Albert , who did much to promote a concern for working-class housing , not least by dying himself from typhoid , gave his name to a model building for four families which , although again intended for artisans , had been rejected as too ambitious by the organizers of the Great Exhibition ( Fig. 37 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Wessels overcame his country 's sporting isolation in the 80s by turning himself into cricket 's most infamous mercenary . |
| 19 | As the prospect of testifying approached , on Nov. 16 Kanemaru followed what was becoming a well-established modern Japanese custom by admitting himself to hospital . |
| 20 | He could not face that prospect and took his own life by covering himself in petrol and setting himself alight . |