Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] himself [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the first step had been taken , and an inexpressible sadness closed in upon him , as if he had stripped himself wantonly of the children who were his own flesh . |
| 2 | He had hidden himself then in the deepest hole he could find because the lightning and the thunder alarmed him . |
| 3 | In July 1890 , two years after writing this , Van Gogh had shot himself inefficiently in the groin , and had died slowly . |
| 4 | The Prince had positioned himself just behind the six guns of the Dutch battery . |
| 5 | She had witnessed the on-off charm for herself when he had thought himself alone in the Feathers ' coffee-room . |
| 6 | One moment he had thought himself alone amongst the greenery and the next he was staring into grey gaunt features closely framed by a tiny skylight in the angle of the roof . |
| 7 | For example the German scholar who wrote a monumental life of Philip Augustus in six volumes and , in the process , came to study Richard 's career with great thoroughness , believed that " he had abandoned himself entirely to the pleasures of Messina where the women seemed very seductive to warriors from the North " . |
| 8 | Pennethorne protested that since 1845 , he had devoted himself entirely to the Office 's work and now found that he had lost all his work . |
| 9 | He had settled himself comfortably on the floor , to the astonished glances of some guests , her beautiful skirts rustling as he leant against them . |
| 10 | Even as a schoolboy he had taken himself away from the crowd for long lonely walks , and sat in the silence of the small chapel in the grounds at Gordonstoun . |
| 11 | At the same time , it was not to be supposed that William Joyce had put himself entirely on the wrong side of the law . |
| 12 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 13 | Rex took another step backwards and found to his unhappiness that he had backed himself neatly into a well-barred shop doorway . |