Example sentences of "[be] [verb] himself [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constable Perkins , who had been enjoying himself at the fête , ‘ patrolling ’ the exhibits , had only by chance come into the Cookery Tent at the vital moment . |
| 2 | In fact , she did possess mettle , though going round alone in the jeep was — I believe — just feminine carelessness , like the terrible state she 'd leave her room in for her maid : powder everywhere , pink for face , white for body ; her long , strong , glossy hairs in the sink , so you would have thought the orang-utan had been availing himself of the facilities and not a pretty young woman of thirty-one . |
| 3 | How bitter must he be to find himself in the position in which he was now ? |
| 4 | The president was supposed to be dissociating himself from the Shah not encouraging him . |
| 5 | Hooto ( TM ) may , even now , be congratulating himself on the risks he 's taken , the frontiers he 's conquered . |
| 6 | To crush strikes and abandon political reform would be to throw himself into the arms of those groups wedded not just to authoritarian politics but to neo-Stalinist economic institutions and principles . |
| 7 | In these pre-Cubist paintings of 1907 and 1908 it is as if Picasso were preparing himself for the difficulties involved in creating a new style by taking stock afresh of some of the basic problems inherent in all painting since the invention of illusionistic perspective . |
| 8 | And signing on and signing off … the goalie who 's saved himself from the dole queue |
| 9 | ‘ Cup places are up for grabs and I 'll be watching carefully tomorrow to see if any player is saving himself for the semi-final , ’ said Malone . |
| 10 | But there are signs that he is distancing himself from the UN . |
| 11 | ‘ In a way , Jeff is putting himself in the position of being a cultural martyr , ’ says Ned Rifkin , exhibition curator for Washington DC 's Hirshhorn Museum , part of the prestigious Smithsonian Institution . |
| 12 | It is a cry of triumph , greeting God 's showing himself in the midst of his people . |
| 13 | All she wanted to do now was get out of here because it was pretty obvious that this woman had known Felipe when he was enjoying himself on the coast and there was definitely something between them . |
| 14 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 15 | The fourth man had abandoned their horses to his wounded companion and was launching himself into the fray . |
| 16 | Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit . |
| 17 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 18 | No , the best he could do was to fortify himself with the Nielson family , and wait a century or two . |
| 19 | Alexander was disporting himself about the boat . |
| 20 | The alienation of king and archbishop gave added significance to long-standing grievances at a time when by protecting Eardwulf 's enemies the archbishop was allying himself against the king . |
| 21 | For all the tact of his dealings with the army , his words and policies in the summer of 1958 plainly showed that de Gaulle was disassociating himself from the ideology of integration — i.e. integration of Algeria into France — that many officers favoured . |
| 22 | And I noticed Otley was admiring himself in the mirror a lot these days , the predatory gleam back in his hazel eyes , sometimes gold sometimes green , according to where the light was coming from . |
| 23 | He was taking himself to the limit and then pushing on from there . |
| 24 | It symbolized that he was putting himself under the protection of the saint , the patron of his kingdom ; but it also revealed the sort of anomaly which had entered the feudal hierarchy . |
| 25 | Then I realized he was putting himself into the part . |
| 26 | Or , if the Prince of Wales was to remove himself from the line of succession , that would be a grave matter . |
| 27 | Doug was throwing himself into the part with relish . |
| 28 | After all Meredith was not alluding to her , any more than he was casting himself in the role of Caesar . |
| 29 | Kersey was briefing himself from the paperwork so far . |