Example sentences of "[prep] himself at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had the curious ability to erase , or at least pretend to erase , from his memory that which did not suit his idea of himself at the time . |
| 3 | The Archbishop should be thoroughly ashamed of himself at the failure of the efforts of the Church to create a better society . |
| 4 | For our purposes , the distinction could be that a diary is written at the time of the event , memoirs are a writer 's recollections of a particular period ( perhaps aided by diaries ) in which he was not necessarily the central character , while an autobiography is an attempt to give a systematic and chronological record of the author 's life , with himself at the centre of the story . |
| 5 | What he expected was to see the Labour Government driven into an election either by its own dissensions or by the action of the Liberals , and its consequent replacement by a Conservative administration , obviously with himself at the head . |
| 6 | And Malone is even managing to get in trouble with himself at the moment . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll have Lou Collins pick them up himself at the airbase on touchdown . ’ |
| 8 | She had been nineteen when her mother died , old enough to notice how poor old Pa seemed to shrink inside himself at the time . |
| 9 | He shook his head and laughed softly to himself at the memory . |
| 10 | Graham smiled to himself at the thought of that . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He smiled to himself at the head of the stairs . |
| 13 | Wycliffe chuckled to himself at the picture he had conjured up . |
| 14 | The armourers all slept in a long room on the first floor , with J. in a small room to himself at the end , and it so happened that Matthew occupied the corresponding small room immediately underneath on the ground floor . |
| 15 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |