Example sentences of "[verb] himself at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's amusing himself at a dull time of year , and being here without his womenfolk , but he 's as adroit at calming the storm as he is at raising it . |
| 2 | Dulé saw him fall , and ran , swung himself up the smooth wall of the redoubt where the gunners were hard at work , and found himself at a mere arm 's length from one . |
| 3 | Towards the end of the third hour , a little man at the back of the great hall , a faithful apparatchik from the area of the Caspian Sea , was unable to contain himself at the unanticipated exposition of the enormities of Stalin . |
| 4 | Ellie cried , as she saw Mike hurling himself at the unprepared Patsy . |
| 5 | The Careys were also in attendance : Lady Carey glowered whilst her husband busied himself at the far end of the room , totally ignoring our existence . |
| 6 | The gulls can see the help and benefit they receive from Iago 's service , but can not see , or conceive , that Iago could be benefiting himself at the same time ; and no one could possibly see that Iago is in fact benefiting himself by destroying them . |
| 7 | One instant he had been in mid-spring , forelegs extended and jaws agape , aiming himself at the crouching man-thing before them , the next , the target had moved with blurring speed , rising swiftly to meet him head-on . |
| 8 | It was awful , he spoke so awkwardly , he always has to say things in a roundabout way , he always has to justify himself at the same time . |
| 9 | For an instant , Jimmy wondered whether he should hurl himself at the plate-glass windows . |
| 10 | She took the cup of tea-bag Indian and allowed him to settle himself at the large deal table covered with music scores . |
| 11 | With his teeth chattering , his mouth bleeding and his hair flattened to his skull he could not have looked less appealing as he presented himself at the front door . |
| 12 | DEC president Bob Palmer , who was supposed to grace this week 's gathering with his presence — see front page — absented himself at the last minute . |
| 13 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |