Example sentences of "of himself in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except that ( and this is decisive in regard to the situation of the one-idea painter ) his format was private — almost , one might say , the framework of another self , or of himself in another form — and unavailable to others . |
| 2 | The mature glider pilot would never hesitate to make a fool of himself in the interests of safety . |
| 3 | Is not this how we see God revealed in the record of Himself in the Bible ? |
| 4 | Speaking of himself in the second person and now deploying the phallic innuendo of tongue as well as sword , Vitelli presents masculine sexuality as spectacle , again demanding and needing the confirmation of his masculinity by an audience even as he conceives his masculinity in terms of spontaneous , self-generating desire and autonomous honour . |
| 5 | Morrissey 's wounded narcissism is both intolerable and intolerant : driven by an instinctive disgust , he makes a meal out of himself in protest against the mealy-mouthed , constructs a grandeur out of swollen self-pity . |
| 6 | The old man recognised something of himself in the picture , stepped back and narrowed his eyes . |
| 7 | Willoughby de Broke saw something of himself in his grandmother , ‘ a good whip and a good horsewoman ’ , who taught him to ride and launched him on an obsessively pursued career in hunting . |
| 8 | First , the patient 's failure to take care of himself in the knowledge that death will result sooner rather than otherwise — and this would apply to the aged as well as to the terminally ill — may be treated as suicide , despite what has been said . |
| 9 | It was awful making such a fool of himself in front of Nutty . |
| 10 | It has been said that he gave too much of himself in his idealistic way , and that the ‘ political football ’ aspects of the CBC in eastern Canada , where he was finally transferred , caused a breakdown in health and his early retirement . |
| 11 | Metaphor is a perspective which re-figures the world and the person 's experience of himself in the world . |
| 12 | There are certainly many others who would see themselves reflected more accurately in Constantin Levin , Tolstoy 's portrayal of himself in Anna Karenina . |
| 13 | Waugh hated visions of himself in the mirror . |
| 14 | I HOPE the Attorney-General is ashamed of himself in allowing the sentence of rapist Dr Thomas Courtenay to stand . |
| 15 | The New Religious Right in North America eschew humanism when it threatens the fundamental truths of God 's revelation of himself in the sacred scriptures ( at least as they understand them ) . |
| 16 | The ‘ self-coronation ’ of Ceauşescu was a gesture in imitation of Napoleon 's crowning of himself in 1804 . |
| 17 | If we try to identify the media pressed into the service of God 's revelation of himself in the Bible , there is an astonishing variety . |
| 18 | He actually dreamed of himself in a suit of armour opening the big , oak front door with a mace in his hand and Adam riding up on a black , colourfully caparisoned horse . |
| 19 | Tolkien could not help seeing a part of himself in Fëanor and Saruman , sharing their perhaps licit , perhaps illicit desire to ‘ sub-create ’ . |
| 20 | It was n't until the weekend that he started to pine for some entertainment other than the sight of himself in the bathroom mirror . |
| 21 | Karol Wojtyla was not a ‘ liberal ’ in any Western sense , though he too may briefly have thought of himself in such terms in student days . |
| 22 | For years , he has been producing images of himself in different guises : from ancient Roman busts to self-portraits done in the styles of famous artists . |
| 23 | The Chief-Corporal to whom I had given my sisters ' addresses at Canjuers was there , and he told me that he had sent my oldest sister a photograph of himself in a tank and one of his apartment in La Rochelle . |
| 24 | The safety diver had clambered onto the iceberg , risking a tear in his suit and the possibility of tipping the iceberg over on top of himself in order to signal his presence in the deepening gloom . |
| 25 | Too often after he had seen her , he felt restless , driven to correct this unhappy image of himself in the arms of another . |
| 26 | Man goes out into the world and brings back what a family needs to survive but he does n't find a reflection of himself in the home as a woman does . ’ |
| 27 | Even so , he could see something of himself in her ; that same hardness in the face of adversity . |
| 28 | He claimed to have been at the Munich Olympics in 1972 while serving with the US Army , and seemed particularly proud of a photograph of himself in officer 's uniform ( without apparently realising that the insignia were incorrect ) . |
| 29 | He should try to think of himself in the kind of situations which the drill sentences suggest . |
| 30 | Auguste caught a brief glimpse of himself in the small mirror he had unobtrusively arranged in order that he might keep an eye on events taking place behind his back ; the surreptitious addition of Mrs Marshall 's abominable Coralline pepper , for example , to an imperfect sauce . |