Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] himself [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could he explain that only by emptying himself into a woman was there any relief ? |
| 2 | From where he was lying , he could neither go forwards nor backwards without exposing himself as a target . |
| 3 | CHESTER 'S former town crier was continuing his recovery in hospital yesterday after turning himself into a human fireball last week . |
| 4 | DAVID Mellor headed for the political wilderness yesterday by comparing himself to a great British hero . |
| 5 | There was also Captain Hawes , another ex-serviceman , who was finally executed for robberies on the moor ; Whitney , the butcher , who was feared for his savagery and barbarism ; Captain Stafford , a Londoner who found fame on the moor , and Thomas Simpson ( Old Mob ) who , although hideously ugly , managed to evade capture regularly by disguising himself as a woman . |
| 6 | It is evident that he has no difficulty either in describing himself as a Dvaitin or Dualist , or as a follower of Viśi ādvaita or qualified non-Dualism , namely , non-Dualism with distinctions . |
| 7 | All these , we know , are inversions of the truth , yet by using himself as a reference point , Iago can convince people to the stage where they accept his view unquestioningly . |
| 8 | The one certainty is that he has consistently sought to secure his own position , mostly by presenting himself as a sensible centrist between the extremes to his right and left . |