Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] himself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | But he 'd shown definite signs of resigning himself to the situation — until her arrival downstairs after breakfast . |
3 | In his memoirs , Wilson makes no bones of placing himself in the line of succession of Baldwin , Churchill and Macmillan . |
4 | Wally was awarded the job for his bravery in receiving extensive brain surgery after years of concussing himself on the crossbar . |
5 | Now he was naked too beside her and making pantomime bows to his guests before launching himself into the night . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | In terms of identifying himself with the peoples suffering it was a disaster . |
8 | So much so that he spent fully eight years in a succession of colleges before throwing himself on the tender mercies of the world . |