Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] himself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as personnel are concerned , every attempt will be made to refer to them according to skills , professions or areas of activity ( e.g. audio-visual technicians , media producers , design consultants ) , and normally the expression " educational technologist " will imply someone consciously identifying himself with the theory and methodology of the movement . |
| 2 | Mr Bérégovoy , who so prided himself as a good manager , had to hear Edouard Balladur , the new prime minister , describe the economy as being in its worst state since the second world war . |
| 3 | Lloyd & Co. had received their instructions from a member of Mr. Mahdi 's group who apparently described himself as the ‘ foreign minister ’ of the Somali Republic . |
| 4 | The use of I in the paraphrase suggests moreover that it is the speaker who somehow sees himself before the infinitive event because it implies that he has not yet realized his desire . |
| 5 | JAMES THURBER 'S short story , ‘ The Catbird Seat ’ , tells of mild-mannered Mr Martin , who deliberately turns himself into a boor for one evening . |
| 6 | It might be wise to include provisions ( Clause 28.01 ) for some form of substituted service to cover the case of a partner who deliberately absents himself from the firm , whether such absence is the ground for his expulsion or otherwise . |
| 7 | The former England amateur international , who still plays himself in the Bluebell Over 40 league on a Saturday morning , has persuaded several ex pros to come along , including former Sunderland and Ipswich forward Eric Gates , Hartlepool manager Alan Murray , former Newcastle and Sunderland centre half Jeff Clarke , former Middlesbrough defender Dickie Rooks and former Newcastle striker Alan Shoulder . |
| 8 | As a consequence Bush , who once described himself as an " education president " , ended his four-year term without having signed a single piece of legislation designed to improve US schools . |
| 9 | The work has voices in the first two movements , but is essentially for solo organ , dazzlingly played by Gaston Litaize , who clearly enjoys himself of the magnificent beast which lives in the church of St. Francois-Xavier in Paris . |
| 10 | After all Dr Kugelmann recommended Karlsbad to so untypical a member of the middle class as Karl Marx , who carefully registered himself as a ‘ man of private means ’ to avoid identification , until he discovered that as Dr Marx he could save some of the rather steep Kurtaxe . |
| 11 | Yet when Cornwall pronounces him the new Earl of Gloucester , and orders him to seek his father out , Edmund has yet another layer of pretence at hand : Edmund 's perversion of such words as ‘ nature ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ , and ‘ blood ’ is grimly evident to us , but not to Cornwall — who may not understand those terms , in any case — and who now puts himself into the position of an adopted father to Edmund : ‘ I will lay trust upon thee ; and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love ’ ( 24f . ) . |
| 12 | It was very much an artisan street this , but with a smattering of richer folk , too , so the shearmen , scribblers , shoemakers , carpenters and shop-keepers were neighbours to an attorney and two well-heeled clothiers — Thomas Clement , employing 11 scribblers and 12 shearmen , and Henry Sheppard , who even described himself as a ‘ Gentleman ’ . |
| 13 | Ortega 's defeat crushed a lot of left-wing supporters around the world , but it did not set back Gould , who immediately plunged himself into a new project . |
| 14 | While in Falmouth she was boarded by the crew of the ‘ Recruit ’ , a naval sloop of war , and a press-gang seized various members of her crew , including the unfortunate Jeffrey , who immediately found himself aboard the ‘ Recruit ’ under a Captain Lake . |
| 15 | Instinctively all on the walls and ramparts ducked , even Seton , who then cursed himself for a fool . |
| 16 | Throughout it all , he keenly defends himself against the propaganda with which the minders assigned to foreign journalists bombard him . |
| 17 | He eventually established himself as a regular first team player for the Parkhead club before he was transferred to Manchester United in 1973 . |
| 18 | After the surgery , told to lose 50 pounds , he duly transformed himself into a jogging optimist . |
| 19 | He swiftly established himself as a dominant influence in New Zealand station architecture and produced many remarkable buildings . |
| 20 | In his other hand a grenade with the pin removed so he could n't put it down to free himself from the handcuffs , and so from the chair , and so from the room . |
| 21 | Then , in the middle of the election campaign , he suddenly found himself among the accused . |
| 22 | He just settles himself into the cushion of the rear seat and waits for me to speak . |
| 23 | When he finally wheeled himself into the Politburo meeting , all the others had arrived . |
| 24 | The seven years of his second marriage were a stable and satisfying period for Howard and the time when he largely established himself as a country gentleman . |
| 25 | Phil joined the Palace in February 1984 for a modest £10,000 fee from Aylesbury Town , but he soon established himself as a valuable member of our League side , playing either on the left of midfield or up front as a striker , and he must probably be reckoned to be the best signing made for our club by manager Alan Mullery . |
| 26 | His first poems followed the Petrarchan tradition of his uncle , but he soon established himself as a versatile playwright , capable of producing dramas , pastorals , masques and , above all , comedies . |
| 27 | If the semanticist takes the first tack , he soon finds himself in the business of adducing an apparently endless proliferation of senses of the simplest looking words . |
| 28 | Perhaps he still identified himself with the man who bought a duffel cloak for Alice Fell ( see Critical Survey , p. 118 ) ; he instructed his daughter to buy the child a doll — ‘ only let it be a good big one ’ . |
| 29 | In spite of the fact that the Carews had been in Ireland since the middle of the seventeenth century , he still regarded himself as an expatriate living among a semi-barbarous people in a semi-barbarous land . |
| 30 | He still held himself with the easy confidence she remembered , his dark head carried at an unconsciously arrogant angle , and he still had that polish to him , the patina of success . |