Example sentences of "of himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It tipped over , sloshing liquid across the photograph of himself astride a motorcycle . |
| 2 | Steinmark was still absent and he , Nordern , was doing two men 's work which annoyed him , particularly as he wanted to give the best possible impression of himself during the next few weeks . |
| 3 | Gangster star and friend of real-life mobster Bugsy Siegel , George Raft had learned how to take care of himself during his younger years as a prize-fighter . |
| 4 | He made a complete idiot of himself over that , and I swear it was n't done deliberately . |
| 5 | What did it matter to her if Silas made an idiot of himself over this woman ? |
| 6 | If he were a safety representative on a platform and , without explanation , he were transferred to another platform run by the same operator or service company , how would an industrial tribunal or any other organisation be able to prove that the reason for his transfer was that he was making a nuisance of himself over safety matters ? |
| 7 | Not when my father spends good farming money to make an ass of himself over an actress . ’ |
| 8 | A nut-brown man by South Kensington standards , he is light-skinned in the West Indies : he is a Chinese Negro , who thinks of himself as a hakwai Chinee — hakwai , he explains , being ‘ Chinese for nigger ’ — and who has not failed to notice that Emily Brontë 's Heathcliff is rumoured to be the Emperor of China . |
| 9 | ‘ The image you give ’ , Fraser tells Ilse , meaning the image she gives of himself as a boy , ‘ is one of dependency , extreme docility . |
| 10 | Dyer thinks of himself as ‘ a stranger to mankind ’ ; his life is led apart , ‘ in a Corner ’ . |
| 11 | So he thinks of himself as a warm-hearted , caring human being . |
| 12 | It was raised by Dudek in somewhat different form when he said that Leonard ‘ always had an image of himself as a rabbi . ’ |
| 13 | The manner of Biggs 's defeat was to say the least surprising and on this evidence Mason has still a long way to go before he can think of himself as a genuine contender for the world championship . |
| 14 | His books must sell , but he does not think of himself as an author . |
| 15 | Part of Lewis 's discovery of himself as a writer was the discovery of a means of presenting himself to the reader . |
| 16 | Mr Nicholas Ridley , who , as secretary of state for the environment , masterminded the privatisation , likes to think of himself as a scourge of high-minded meddlers and an advocate of consumer choice . |
| 17 | This dual heritage sharpened the sense of himself as a fused centre between the dream world of a long-vanished civilization and the natural world he observed scientifically . |
| 18 | Yesterday he had thought of himself as a character in an obscene novel . |
| 19 | And it was during this time that he had lost his wife , lost his job , lost his sense of himself as a separate human soul , and in struggle worked out the theory that he was nothing but a sick character in the hands or under the pen of a malevolent Author . |
| 20 | By fostering an image of himself as the inheritor of Charlemagne 's empire , he did much to create that image of Charlemagne which dominated the later middle ages . |
| 21 | In both living and in dramatic playing a participant is continually accommodating to an image of himself as an object in order to communicate with others . |
| 22 | Woodhouse retained a sense of himself as a shoemaker long after he had gone into the book trade : the title of his most important work ‘ The Life and Lucubrations of Crispinus Scriblerus ’ ( c. 1795 ) is an allusion to one of the patron saints of cobblers . |
| 23 | Modigliani must have sensed the originality in the young boy 's personality even at that age ; perhaps he saw something of himself as a youth . |
| 24 | He had even allowed himself to be irritated by Patrick 's impudent image of himself as Marcus 's dog . |
| 25 | He thought of himself as a latecomer . |
| 26 | He had to start thinking of himself as a winner again . |
| 27 | They are rooted in Papert 's definition of himself as an ‘ educational utopian ’ . |
| 28 | Slowly it dawned on Alexander that the tension that he had first noticed was not of specific parts , as he had first presumed , but of himself as a whole being . |
| 29 | Mackay did not return to Scotland after 1885 and there is little evidence that he thought of himself as a Scot , except in a very conventional , stereotypical way . |
| 30 | Some of Peckinpah 's behaviour arose from his view of himself as a victim of the movie industry , because as much violence had been done to Major Dundee ( 1965 ) and The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ) as to the characters in them . |