Example sentences of "[prep] himself [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May the Lord enrich and increase your witness to the Truth about Himself in the indifferent society around you . |
| 2 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 3 | Each young gentleman was provided with his own chamber-pot , which he was expected to empty for himself on the common midden , situated behind the houses . |
| 4 | Another performer in One Over The Eight who took to Kenneth with the greatest of affection was Lance Percival , soon to make a national name for himself with the top TV satire show of the Sixties , That Was The Week That Was . |
| 5 | It is very difficult to find a reason for that early forebear making a ‘ god ’ for himself in the first place , if it were not a result of the pressures of dependence originating from mammalian childhood . |
| 6 | ‘ They 've just decided Pat can now take care of himself in the outside world . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ The First Law of Sport : Look doubtfully upon the man who talks of himself in the third person ’ . |
| 10 | And he can finish a golden year late next summer with the much-awaited showdown against Chris Eubank , who took Benn 's WBO middleweight title nearly two years ago before moving up himself to the 12 stone limit . |
| 11 | The fact that Tassi was already married only exacerbated Aratsio 's belief in himself as the aggrieved party . |
| 12 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
| 13 | The former health secretary brushed aside talk of a demotion by referring to himself as the new Minister for Majorism . |
| 14 | I have seen him striding through Soho eating a sandwich and talking to himself at the same time , oblivious to the cars and traffic and noise around him , deep in thought . |
| 15 | McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript . |
| 16 | She could hear him repeating phrases to himself through the thin wall between her room and his . |
| 17 | He shook his head and clucked to himself like the White Rabbit in Alice . |
| 18 | Do n't bother would be more honest , for he prefers to have the kitchen to himself in the early morning , to prepare his own simple breakfast and enjoy the first cigarette of the day undisturbed . |
| 19 | He refers to himself in the third person quite frequently , almost as if his stage persona is a separate being . |
| 20 | He was at an age when he could be both inside himself and outside himself at the same time : he knew he was only playing a game , but the game still remained real to him . |
| 21 | Jeremy settles Kate on a rattan sofa with a whisky , flicks on the stereo and then sits down himself at the other end of the sofa , making sure that she notices his careful maintenance of physical space between them . |
| 22 | He ran a glass under the kitchen tap , then returned to the living room and , looking at himself in the full-length mirror all the while , stood there naked , shaking violently as if with cold , and poured himself and drank three glasses of water without stopping . |
| 23 | I 'm meant to be fighting the Germans , not going to a wedding , he said out loud , as he looked at himself in the cracked mirror above the washbasin . |