Example sentences of "at himself in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walked to the phone , pausing on the way to take another admiring look at himself in the mirror . |
| 2 | He caught my astonished stare , and paused as he was jotting down the orders , glancing down at himself in apparent wonder at what I could be looking at . |
| 3 | He looked at himself in his mind 's eye , squared his shoulders and carried on down the stairs . |
| 4 | He ran a glass under the kitchen tap , then returned to the living room and , looking at himself in the full-length mirror all the while , stood there naked , shaking violently as if with cold , and poured himself and drank three glasses of water without stopping . |
| 5 | Boy paused before answering , and looked at himself in one of the mirrors . |
| 6 | John was capable of laughing at himself in respect of attempts at beautification . |
| 7 | Henry looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , as he crumpled up the other three pages of this latest missive and threw it in the swingbin . |
| 8 | The four of them lived together and Lee kept her counsel and Hosanna stayed in contact with the spirits and Larry larked around and looked longingly at himself in convenient reflecting surfaces . |
| 9 | There is nobody here who ca n't wake up in the morning and look at himself in the mirror . ’ |
| 10 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
| 11 | In the early evening of the next day he dressed himself in his best suit and wore a clean shirt and a razor tight collar ; he looked at himself in the mirror , yes , he looked good , almost handsome , one must die with dignity . |
| 12 | He wandered off round the room , looking at himself in the mirrors and pulling faces and laughing . |
| 13 | But he once explained that this was due merely to prolonged gazing at himself in a mirror . ’ |
| 14 | One reaches over my shoulder and cranes his neck so that he can look at himself in the mirror . |
| 15 | He smiled at himself in one of Karen 's mirrors . |
| 16 | Every time Dyson looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , trying to imagine it was a television screen , his stomach and Jannie 's stomach turned over in unison . |
| 17 | Every morning , the first thing Narcissus did when he woke up was to look at himself in the mirror . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course you will , ’ he assured her , then looked down at himself in distaste . |
| 19 | He stared at himself in the mirror as they measured him . |
| 20 | I 'm meant to be fighting the Germans , not going to a wedding , he said out loud , as he looked at himself in the cracked mirror above the washbasin . |
| 21 | Piggy believed that he had overcome his disabilities and looked at himself in a very different way from the other boys . |
| 22 | Well wha what he does is is he looks at himself in the mirror something like that and er he sees sees the body he 's jumped into . |