Example sentences of "himself and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In America , Mario knew nothing but success and when I last saw him with Karl Haas at the Meadowlands , a world away from FI , he was still a happy man , still at ease with himself and without regrets . |
| 2 | He had done it all himself and without soap . |
| 3 | Five years later the Meeting considered another problem and in its wisdom inverted the common law assumption that an accusation was not a conviction : ‘ The Case of Mr. H. R — — — was brought before the Church , who had misconducted himself and at the recommendation of the Pastor and Officers was suspended until his guilt was proved . ’ |
| 4 | Roebuck positioned and braced himself and at the precise moment drove his shoulder into Shelford 's midriff , stopped him instantaneously , before driving him into the Onewa Domain turf . |
| 5 | He can not feed himself and at present is fed by a nasogastric tube . |
| 6 | He tried many of them out on himself and on his family and friends , and noted the effects produced by each . |
| 7 | He began experimenting with other drugs in use at the time and , using his extensive knowledge of botany , he investigated the effects of a number of medicinal plants , both on himself and on a small circle of friends and pupils . |
| 8 | John Robertson the schoolmaster had come ‘ trotting along from the manse , looking full of himself and with not a word to say to anyone ’ . |
| 9 | Then , at Imola , Niki again failed to finish — he was , I recall , disgusted with himself and with the engine , which was still having some teething problems — and Prost won . |
| 10 | The author met the leopard a couple of days later on a forest track looking very sorry for himself and with a broken tail ! |
| 11 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 12 | But Rodrigo ordered a bed to be made ready for himself and for the leper , and they twain slept together . |
| 13 | The book registers a new-found fascination with Ezra Pound , too , on whom Davie was soon to write two books , as opposed to T. S. Eliot — espousing a failed Modernist against the acknowledged leader of London literary opinion — and its tactic of saying-the-other-thing was soon to become the mark of a critic eager to clear a space for himself and for others of like mind . |
| 14 | Sir Robert Knolles , likewise , fought both for himself and for his king . |
| 15 | He had not avoided a strike , which was half his inclination , but he had preserved a reasonably favourable position , both for himself and for resistance . |
| 16 | Though the Swan was more sophisticated than the Queen 's Head , it was only a matter of minutes before servants , ostlers and maids were scampering all over the large and comfortable hotel to see to the minutest needs of the ‘ Honourable Member of Parliament ’ , ‘ brother to an Earl ’ , who had landed on them at an unexpectedly late hour and naturally — ‘ a Colonel as well ’ — demanded the best of everything both for himself and for his ( temporary — ‘ from Keswick ’ ) servant and his ( ‘ pale-looking ’ ) daughter . |
| 17 | He laid the pistol down and crossed to the drinks cabinet , pouring glasses of whisky for himself and for Carol . |
| 18 | He had been lost to all sense of preservation , both for himself and for Grainne . |
| 19 | Article 25 ( 1 ) of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights , subscribed by the United Kingdom in December 1948 , runs as follows : ‘ Everyone has a right to a standard of living adequate for the health and wellbeing of himself and of his family , including medical care. , |
| 20 | He cringed from that single revelation of himself and of his motive , even while knowing it was n't really true to his nature , that the instance had come , gone and never would return . |
| 21 | Because the object of contemplation is God himself , who opens to us the infinite possibilities of himself and of our own lives . |
| 22 | On the other hand there are teachers with low standards who think a mere pass at whatever grade is a feather in the cap , both of himself and of his pupil . |
| 23 | Neither is it necessary to have what is known as a ‘ spiritual experience ’ — a single moment in time when the individual has a sense of himself and of the world in a way which transcends both the physical and the psychological . |
| 24 | These differences are an indication of the unique way in which each individual is responding to the circumstances in which he finds himself and of the state of that person as a whole , that is they show how his healing powers are operating at that time . |
| 25 | Such recall led the individual to a deeper understanding of himself and of the traumatic effect on his life of the hitherto ‘ forgotten ’ incidents . |
| 26 | Then there is the fact that he remains , even within the constraints of his later career as a commentator alongside Murray Walker on the Beeb , remarkably open and frank in his judgements , both of himself and of others . |
| 27 | In his early days with Norwich he took ‘ stick ’ from fellow players and the opposition , but reflected on this favourably in a way which says much of himself and of other successful black sportsmen . |
| 28 | Each individual renounced his ideal of acquiring his father 's position for himself and of possessing his mother and sisters . |
| 29 | to take reasonable care for the health and safety of himself and of other persons who may be affected by his acts or omissions at work ; and |
| 30 | It took the form of Baldwin agreeing only to speak for himself and of leaving open the question of an election . |