Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] himself [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By late March they were in Bologna , where Wolfgang was put through his paces by the famous theorist Padre Martini , who professed himself amazed at the boy 's ability to work out complex fugues on a brief given subject . |
| 2 | Even now he says he was surprised by the appointment , which caused him to make himself unavailable for the British Lions ' tour of South Africa . |
| 3 | He made himself agreeable to the earl 's squires in the stableyard , and kept his ears open for any revealing mentions of Robert Bossu 's tastes , temperament and interests , and what he garnered was encouraging . |
| 4 | He made himself ill with the worry . |
| 5 | Although making mo' movies is his main focus now , the comedian recently returned to stand-up comedy because , he said , he found himself unhappy without an outlet for his anger at social injustice . |
| 6 | He found himself involved in an argument about silver wrapping-paper only serving to accentuate the paltriness of a gift . |
| 7 | he found himself deep in the shit ! |
| 8 | His pictures vary in style : in his later days he showed himself capable of the common sort of conventionally flattering portrait , but , particularly from his earlier years in London , there exists a body of work demonstrating his great talent for lively detail and natural rather than conventional compositions . |
| 9 | He stated himself pleased with the general appearance and appointments of the unit . |
| 10 | He shook himself free of the hood and pulled the shawl off his head , his face burning in humiliation . |
| 11 | David Nobbs i in London for the preview and he professes himself pleased with the TV version . |
| 12 | Though the ascendancy he achieved over Nehru sometimes led Mountbatten to overestimate the extent to which great events lay in the hollow of his hand , he kept himself accountable to the British government throughout . |
| 13 | In the process he proved himself one of the sport 's great survivors . |
| 14 | In the process he proved himself one of the sport 's great survivors . |
| 15 | His breathing quickened with raw urgency , but he held himself rigid above the provocation of her softly rounded femininity . |