Example sentences of "himself [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The army Captain taught the Commander the knack of hoisting himself aboard a canoe over its stern , and how to vault astride one steadied by a paddler already aboard . |
| 2 | He broke himself off a thick stick from a tree behind him and looked all round again . |
| 3 | One day , just as he is about to throw himself off a cliff , he sees Custer riding for Little Big Horn . |
| 4 | He 's watched the success of companies such as PowerSoft Corp and aims to cut himself off a slice with a new cross-system client-server graphical desktop development environment to build database applications . |
| 5 | He 's watched the success of companies such as PowerSoft Corp and aims to cut himself off a slice with a new cross-platform client/server graphical desktop development environment to build database applications . |
| 6 | He puts himself about a lot , tackles hard and works hard , ’ Bingham said . |
| 7 | I have no doubt that during the general election campaign the chairman of the Tory party will be spreading himself about a little bit , even though he has a tiny majority in Bath . |
| 8 | Yanto watched the smoke from his cigarette drift lazily up the shaft of the sunbeam which bathed Molly and himself through a gap in the greenery above . |
| 9 | He was a lot smaller then and he managed to squeeze himself through a cavity and found himself in a network of very small , narrow tunnels — far too small for most adults to enter . |
| 10 | And getting to it can mean one man hauling himself through a two-foot tunnel for half an hour in six inches of water . |
| 11 | He seems , on his own initiative , to have put himself through an extensive course of classics , modern languages and English literature , a combination of subjects that it was not then possible to offer at any university . |
| 12 | Two of the recipients , Joseph Kagan , a mackintosh manufacturer subsequently convicted of theft , and the property developer Eric Miller , who shot himself during a fraud investigation some eighteen months later , proved the justice of the concern . |
| 13 | The Minister had planned a speech of thanks himself during a visit to Stoke Mandeville Hospital … but Adis Avdic stole his thunder . |
| 14 | He was less prominent in the action than William Craig and he felt sufficiently distanced from it to be able to absent himself for a few days in the first week of the strike when he went to Canada to attend a funeral . |
| 15 | The sharp coldness pierced his skull and he opened his eyes , preparing himself for a Forest . |
| 16 | He cursed himself for a fool . |
| 17 | ‘ They say he would beat up the devil himself for a shilling , ’ replied Barney . |
| 18 | ENGLAND manager Graham Taylor is faces up to the most important year of his career , already bracing himself for a row which could undermine his World Cup plans . |
| 19 | The Italian was in the process of being shown the red card himself for a crunching tackle on Walsh when the Pompey striker hit back angrily . |
| 20 | Instinctively all on the walls and ramparts ducked , even Seton , who then cursed himself for a fool . |
| 21 | He gathered himself for a giant leap and SPRONG ! landed right in the middle of the sleeping ducks . |
| 22 | TV COMIC Tony Slattery has sketched himself for a charity auction — starkers . |
| 23 | You know me , I run with the hare an' hunt with the hounds : I 'd suck up to the devil himself for a penny . ’ |
| 24 | Peter hesitated in the hall , not so much to eavesdrop as to prepare himself for a noiseless ascent of the stairs . |
| 25 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 26 | He was preparing himself for a British Council tour of France but it was cancelled at the last moment ; he did , however , fly to Amsterdam and then on to Rome in December under the auspices of the same organization . |
| 27 | He read to himself for a few minutes while William perused the review section , but his agitation could not long be contained in silence . |
| 28 | Meanwhile he readied himself for a sixteen-tooth smile . |
| 29 | Eckersley himself for a time worked for Sir Oswald Mosley [ q.v. ] , joining the New Party and involving himself subsequently in commercial broadcasting schemes which interested Mosley also . |
| 30 | He had no time for the cant of the priests about sin , but he knew , as he lay in the barracks hearing the grunts and panting of his companions , that he was honing himself for a superior form by refusing his body . |