Example sentences of "[prep] himself in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allen could look after himself in the forest . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As he was doing that , he saw the paragraph about himself in The Stage and planted his shoe over it . |
| 5 | It was during the five years he spent in Orkney that he began to make a name for himself in the field of English-language studies ; he was also the writer of the ‘ Orcadian Boatman 's Song ’ . |
| 6 | Lewis complained that he could not see any personal relevance for himself in the story of Christ . |
| 7 | Their horses were saddled and waiting , their farewells to the prior and brothers already made , and Hugh just reaching for his bridle , when Nicol came trudging sturdily in at the gatehouse , soiled and bruised and hoisting himself along on a staff he had cut for himself in the forest . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A sort of cross between Kurt Cobain and a Fraggle , James has already made a name for himself in the office for dancing around and waving his arms wildly while he talks , not forgetting the regular swishing back of that blond mop . |
| 10 | The fact that he also made a little money for himself in the process was considered only reasonable by the majority of fans . |
| 11 | We have already seen how Galileo argued , on theological grounds , for the differentiation of scientific and theological propositions , and how he created difficulties for himself in the process . |
| 12 | Wealth , power , dames : Daine could n't have Dreamed up a better situation for himself in the City if he had been trying . |
| 13 | This is the story of Okonkwo , the strong son of a feckless father who builds a position of respect and authority for himself in the tribe — only to see things fall apart as he is undermined by the arrival of whites . |
| 14 | I thought he 'd find a way for himself in the end . |
| 15 | Man goes out into the world and brings back what a family needs to survive but he does n't find a reflection of himself in the home as a woman does . ’ |
| 16 | Waugh hated visions of himself in the mirror . |
| 17 | Two hours later , full of beer and bravado , Harry contemplated a reflection of himself in the mirror behind the bar of the Glue pot Inn and calculated that , even when sobriety had returned to drain away his courage , he would not change his mind . |
| 18 | It was n't until the weekend that he started to pine for some entertainment other than the sight of himself in the bathroom mirror . |
| 19 | The businessman should be better able to take care of himself in the transaction , and therefore should require little protection . |
| 20 | He should try to think of himself in the kind of situations which the drill sentences suggest . |
| 21 | First , the patient 's failure to take care of himself in the knowledge that death will result sooner rather than otherwise — and this would apply to the aged as well as to the terminally ill — may be treated as suicide , despite what has been said . |
| 22 | The old man recognised something of himself in the picture , stepped back and narrowed his eyes . |
| 23 | Metaphor is a perspective which re-figures the world and the person 's experience of himself in the world . |
| 24 | Is not this how we see God revealed in the record of Himself in the Bible ? |
| 25 | If we try to identify the media pressed into the service of God 's revelation of himself in the Bible , there is an astonishing variety . |
| 26 | ( Poole 's recollection is that John had made the piece earlier , with himself in the role danced by Lionel Luyt , but there is no record of this . |
| 27 | He heard all patiently , taking the pain within himself in the hope that he might show by his own fallible example how much greater was the patient love of Christ . |
| 28 | He smiles to himself in the mirror . |
| 29 | Why is it always like this , he cried silently to himself in the darkness . |
| 30 | Her shriek awakened the house , and Coleridge , who had been asleep when his father returned , knew at once what it signified , saying to himself in the darkness , ‘ Papa is dead . ’ |