Example sentences of "himself with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made his headmaster admit that military training was not ( strictly speaking ) compulsory , armed himself with a letter from his father , and won the contest of wills . |
| 2 | Behind the long black sweep of counter Sergeant Camb sat fanning himself with a newspaper , the sweat dripping down his forehead . |
| 3 | Three minutes into the second-half the non-Leaguers ' obligatory fireman , Mottashed , instead of shooting himself in the foot , set fire to himself with a jittery own goal and Loram shortly made it 3-1 , deader than dead . |
| 4 | Bream armed himself with a knife . |
| 5 | The third earl designed this house himself with a view to it being lived in by his eldest son and subsequent heirs . |
| 6 | He could n't have picked a better place : laid to rest in Père Lachaise alongside such genuine nineteenth-century bohos as Gérard de Nerval , who took his pet lobster for walks in the Palais Royal and eventually hanged himself with a piece of string he insisted was the Queen of Sheba 's garter . |
| 7 | He had nearly saddled himself with a desperate , thirty-one-year-old fan . |
| 8 | Calming himself with a reminder of his earlier resolution , he started to climb the tree . |
| 9 | When the dust of the election battle settled , Terence O'Neill found himself with a minority government and the support of only eleven of the Unionist backbenchers . |
| 10 | Silva , 25 , was delighted to find himself with a gallery of waiters and farm-workers from Jersey 's 3,000-strong Portuguese community . |
| 11 | Jones , shoulders hunched against the numbing cold , contented himself with a quiet display . |
| 12 | Instead of comparing himself with them and feeling satisfied , he compares himself with a boy who 's much better off financially . |
| 13 | He introduced himself with a slight bow to the tall man . |
| 14 | There was persistent rumour ( probably close to the truth ) bandied about by the local gentry , that Anthony Foster had hidden himself with a paid labourer at Cumnor Place . |
| 15 | He blinked , and came to himself with a start . |
| 16 | One night , he found himself with a few other police enveloped in the hatred of a black township uprising . |
| 17 | Morrissey armed himself with a self made shield of absolute and utter confidence . |
| 18 | Claire springs into bathroom with cry of rage ( the train goes at 8.21 ) Steven nicks himself with a safety razor that ca n't nick you . |
| 19 | All the men on the camp were housed in brick built barrack blocks , and J. even had a little room to himself with a radiator . |
| 20 | Billy had armed himself with a stout stick . |
| 21 | In many species the basic unit is the harem , with one dominant male surrounding himself with a number of breeding females . |
| 22 | Lewis , a metre behind , equalled the old world record of 9.93 seconds but could not even console himself with a new American best for he only equalled the time of Calvin Smith . |
| 23 | Dean Jones announced himself with a century in the opening Sunday League game , a stirring win over Lancashire , and Ian Botham interspersed some big one-day scores with a vain but valiant century in the opening Championship match . |
| 24 | He calculated that the aircraft was fairly light , the only payload being himself with a twentypound bag and twelve gallons of fuel . |
| 25 | She was still golden , and silken , and goddess-like , and had welcomed John and Astorre and himself with a kind of free , self-possessed amusement that had seemed to make them at once her long-established friends . |
| 26 | At the conclusion of the episode , Rennie contented himself with a warning about defective speedometers . |
| 27 | He 's a perfect team player , too : how kind he was to allow Moustache Nightmare to cover himself with a race car and a spare last year , while Patrese had but one machine at his disposal . |
| 28 | A FORMER miner who armed himself with a toy gun to protest against pit closures walked free from court yesterday . |
| 29 | William , we may remember , had thoughtfully provided himself with a burial plot many years before : so square L9 , grave no. 62,076 it was , as he was laid to rest at Abney Park . |
| 30 | If you are fortunate enough to own , or to find , an incunabulum or book printed before 1500 , do not be too alarmed if it has no title , since many books of the period had none , at least in the sense that we understand , the publisher/printer contenting himself with a curt statement of the title and author 's name , known as a ‘ label title ’ , or else a small introductory paragraph ( sometimes using a different coloured ink ) known as the ‘ incipit ’ , from the Latin ‘ it begins ’ . |