Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] himself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His flesh was red and raw , but even after wounding himself like that , which must have been pretty painful , he did n't stop . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's no such thing as a meaningless gesture , ’ he said , after emptying himself of that thought . |
| 3 | He suffered burns to his upper body after dousing himself in flammable liquid and setting himself alight outside the offices of former girlfriend Sandra Sturgiss . |
| 4 | He had a brief memory of McAllister 's bright face , earlier that day , and the thought of enjoying himself with one of Madame Rachel 's girls did not attract . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , he had a habit of propping himself on that stool in front of a picture and it must have gone over with him . |
| 6 | Even before he was consecrated , and perhaps as soon as he was elected , at a moment when , by ordinary rules of prudence , he should have been thinking of equipping himself with all the forms of expert knowledge required by his new position , he chose one of the group of English monks to be his closest and most constant companion . |
| 7 | His father had a way of losing himself in some private absorption , of not hearing when people spoke to him , and then of apologizing concernedly . |
| 8 | Clarissa was horrified lest Charles thought of identifying himself with such a call . |
| 9 | Schlick 's murder in 1936 terminated Waismann 's employment and his opportunities for supporting himself by private teaching . |
| 10 | He is obviously intent upon amusing himself with two women . |
| 11 | The Padre had wasted no time in equipping himself with fresh and healthy bearers and now had himself carried with exhilarating swiftness in a litter to where the Collector was standing with the General . |
| 12 | We did not appreciate at the time what a wrench leaving the Weir House must have been for him , nor the difficulty he had in adjusting himself to four assertive stepsons he hardly knew . |
| 13 | But he did not wait for a reply before throwing himself to one side as a sabre whistled down and buried itself deep in the brickwork of the window sill where he had been sitting . |
| 14 | He has shown courage in exposing himself in public to the danger . |
| 15 | Stanley 's third book , the one he threw out before reducing himself to this final minimum , was Salammbô . |
| 16 | ‘ It will be enlightening to see if his new-found honesty runs to incriminating himself in any way , ’ observed Amiss . |
| 17 | Walking , cycling and swimming are healthy exercise which can help keep the patient 's blood pressure down , if he does them sensibly , without putting himself under undue pressure . |
| 18 | Could he not withdraw the promise on finding himself in straitened circumstances , or on falling out with P , or because she had married a wealthy man ? suppose then that D's promise is to pay the money ’ so long as you remain unmarried . ’ |
| 19 | It could also be explained as the product of pride — a disdain for integrating himself into any kind of partisan organization . |
| 20 | He was an expert at extracting himself from emotional entanglements … the bitter voices were mocking her … |
| 21 | Simply by reminding himself of this fact , he felt inspired by a new confidence and was just about to lift Cleo physically from her seat when yet another resident of the house made an appearance . |
| 22 | On the contrary , by correcting himself in this way the author is making a particular point : that although the occasion might have been regarded as a performance by some , that although it might have in time become a performance , this description is not an accurate representation of the narrator 's memories . |
| 23 | The galley was shaped like a three-sided square , and by parking himself at right angles to the double sink , his back to the companionway ladder , Nathan had her trapped . |
| 24 | However , he managed to keep a certain degree of sanity by exercising himself in regular bucking sessions at about four o'clock every afternoon . |
| 25 | The unguarded nature of the latter , which was never worked over by Thomas , provides occasional glimpses of the youth who left St. Paul 's after his seventeenth birthday in order to achieve a twofold purpose : ostensibly to please his father by attending a few practical evening classes and in the day by preparing himself for some form of Civil Service clerical post , while privately , he sought the freedom of a young nature-writer who was determined to collect his papers into a book . |
| 26 | On Nov. 16 Sihanouk effectively repudiated his tacit understanding with the Khmers Rouges by associating himself with international calls for the prosecution of Pol Pot and others among the leadership for crimes against humanity . |