Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] himself [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHESTER 'S former town crier was continuing his recovery in hospital yesterday after turning himself into a human fireball last week . |
| 2 | A SEX pest who stalked TV weathergirl Ulrika Jonsson died after throwing himself under an express train , it was revealed last night . |
| 3 | In his turn , Tran Van Hieu knelt to perform the same silent acts of obeisance as the older man , but after prostrating himself for the third time , he remained on his knees and to his children 's surprise began to pray aloud . |
| 4 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 5 | A Devil , mischievous , destructive but lovable , appears and contrives by various ruses , such as that of disguising himself as a beautiful girl , to amuse himself in causing havoc and death among the soldiers and finally , by playing furiously upon his violin , to force the villagers to dance to death . |
| 6 | However , he appreciated the cathartic nature of expressing himself through the written word . |
| 7 | In conversations snatched in the backs of taxis between meetings , and in office anterooms , Branson spoke about the process of turning himself into a public figure if the airline were to succeed , fully aware of the consequences . |
| 8 | Morceli says he is ‘ 80 per cent ’ confident of providing himself with the perfect 23rd birthday present by eclipsing Eamonn Coghlan 's ten-year-old mile mark of 3min 49.78sec but Norman believes other records will also tumble , with Colin Jackson in the 60m hurdles and Murray providing the British challenge . |
| 9 | Nor did he much approve of subjecting himself to the nervous exhaustion of house parties as other peoples ' guest . |
| 10 | During the months of recuperation and the months of rediscovering himself as a changed person , a quick-tempered , irritable person , nervous and hypochondriacal , Tom thought of sex and love as remote concepts that were not for him , that were ridiculous for him to consider . |
| 11 | By then ‘ Tixier ’ had taken his anti-Gaullist crusade to the point of running himself as a presidential candidate . |
| 12 | Closer co-operation with Western Europe was ideally suited to Adenauer 's policy of distancing himself from the Eastern bloc after September 1955 , when Moscow upset him by recognising East Germany as a sovereign state . |
| 13 | Buckmaster 's habit of distancing himself from the seamier side of the company worried him . |
| 14 | Ankara diplomats saw his resignation as a way of distancing himself from an unpopular government . |
| 15 | He was wary of identifying himself to the French people as a " democrat " at a time when democracy was equated with the detested Third Republic . |
| 16 | We are told the story of a man ( unidentified , so for convenience I shall refer to him as X ) who , though ‘ exclusively heterosexual ’ had become interested in another younger man on the occasion of finding himself in a triangular relationship with him and his ( i.e. the younger man 's ) fiancée at a dinner party . |
| 17 | Given the widespread feelings of disillusionment abroad in 1976 , Carter 's strategy of offering himself as a new broom was electorally well judged , but if he impressed the voters , his relentless and sanctimonious moralizing irritated and alienated legislators whose support he would eventually need . |
| 18 | BEST PERFORMANCE BY A SEXUAL BEING : Woody Allen , for ridding himself of the insipid waif and compulsive adopter Mia Farrow by bedding her adopted daughter Egg Foo Yong , or whatever her name was . |
| 19 | She was easily impressed , but Charles felt like indulging himself in a little tour de force . |
| 20 | Brian Say , 44 , of Craigmuir Croft , Ythanbank , near Ellon , was charged with conducting himself in a disorderly manner at his home while in possession of a loaded shotgun between 15 and 17 February , repeatedly threatening to shoot himself and committing a breach of the peace . |
| 21 | He is probably downstairs , knocking back a stiff gin and tonic before submitting himself to the milder offering of champagne . |
| 22 | He poured a brandy and handed it to Craig before helping himself to a good measure . |
| 23 | He himself had drunk one quick light beer before excusing himself for an early night . |
| 24 | Now , Armani is Italy 's new Great Dictator but his genius is that , having handed down his basic dictate — that both women and men look their best in unstructured tailoring applied to traditional menswear fabrics — he has succeeded in turning himself into the Great Listener . |
| 25 | So much so that he spent fully eight years in a succession of colleges before throwing himself on the tender mercies of the world . |
| 26 | He has carried on the good work this term and is well on the way to establishing himself in the top 10 with 16 wins in the current campaign . |
| 27 | In 1918 Sanders thought he had a chance to become Chief Secretary for Ireland , but was soon reduced to considering himself as a possible Speaker ; in 1921 he was passed over for Chief Whip because it did not suit the coalition to have such a partisan in so sensitive a post . |
| 28 | Mosley , with his combative language and stormy oratory , proved later to be no sluggard at defending himself with the good old British fist . |
| 29 | His attitude was , however , coloured by a highly literary romanticism , and despite his efforts at identifying himself with a primitive culture , his outlook naturally remained that of a sophisticated European ; he borrowed freely from primitive sources but reinterpreted them to suit his own decorative and symbolic purposes . |
| 30 | By politicizing his text in this way Sukenick runs the risk of linking authorial production with political manipulation , but he regularly plays down the privilege of composition by including himself as a minor character within his narratives . |