Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] himself on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Hurt is the medic of the title , an eminent surgeon who finds himself on the other edge of the scalpel when he becomes seriously ill . |
| 2 | He brightened up , getting the glow of a man who feels himself on the verge of discharging a disagreeable responsibility . |
| 3 | So that when you go into the Drama Studio with a group of students … and when you do decent work with them , everybody puts himself on the line , everybody . |
| 4 | Mr Llambias ' services do not come cheap — they are a combination of a retainer ‘ sufficient to make them think really seriously ’ and a success fee that is a percentage of the fee income of the smaller firm ( sometimes 5% or 7.5% ) — but he prides himself on the longevity of the mergers he arranges . |
| 5 | he holds himself on the sofa |