Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] himself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something tells me he wo n't pass up this opportunity to establish himself as an international . |
| 2 | The male places himself behind the female and pecks at her cloaca . |
| 3 | ‘ When a dealing is had between a seller like Mr. Lewis and a person who is actually there present before him , then the presumption in law is that there is a contract , even though there is a fraudulent impersonation by the buyer representing himself as a different man than he is . |
| 4 | The barman reinstalled himself behind the jump and enquired after my pleasure . |
| 5 | He claimed too that the Reeve is presented as indicting the Miller for a judgement he does not make , i.e. that he had criticized the Reeve for being over-ready to see himself as a priest , the agent of God 's punishment , through John 's naive readiness to see himself as a second Noah . |
| 6 | The mathematician propelled himself towards the prone figure some yards away . |
| 7 | Ymor 's ravens were notoriously loyal to their master , to the extent that Withel 's one attempt to promote himself to the rank of greatest thief in Ankh-Morpork had cost their master 's right hand man his left eye . |
| 8 | He Anglicized his name and a few years later he was being described as an accountant or merchant 's clerk ; a subsequent attempt to establish himself as a commission agent apparently failed . |
| 9 | While John the Divine describes himself to the seven churches in Asia as your partner in patiently enduring the suffering that comes to those who belong to his Kingdom ’ ( Rev. 1:9 ) . |
| 10 | But come in out of the cold , ’ he said , seeing how the little priest hunched himself like a ruffled bird inside his gown . |
| 11 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 12 | By inventing a myth , the epic poet frees himself from the group . |
| 13 | It was not long before Tony joined me in an attempt to free himself of the sizzling mushrooms . |
| 14 | It gives him great pleasure to incarnate himself in the shape of man as Christ himself did . |
| 15 | The logical structure admittedly is independent of the desires of the thinker , but the drive behind it is an enthusiasm , or an obsession to rid himself of an intolerable burden ; at the point when we notice there is no more joy or stress in his thinking , that it has become a routine , we begin to be afraid that his creative phase his passed . |
| 16 | In many of these sonnets the poet accuses himself of a gross failure in judgement in having formed a relationship with this woman . |
| 17 | You know , the one where some lumbering forward finds himself on the openside and , just as he is about to get well and truly creamed , he ships the ball — and the whole of the opposition 's back row — over to you ? |
| 18 | The reformulated law makes it plain that an offence is committed if the defendant conducts himself in a way that causes his victim to anticipate that the defendant is about to use unlawful violence . |
| 19 | And yet in one way the later poet contradicts himself in the next stanza by following the traditional pastoral view that there is plentiful and ‘ luscious ’ fruit , ready to be picked and savoured . |
| 20 | In Jennings , above , the accused had a sheathknife to protect himself from a person with whom he had been quarrelling . |
| 21 | In spite of his ritual attempt to distance himself from the young man who had written that poem , he knew very well that even his contemporary reputation in large part rested on it : that , and the last three of the Four Quartets , he told Ezra Pound , had been worth writing . |
| 22 | Side-reins should be of the same length and of a length which encourages the horse to hold himself in a balanced outline . |
| 23 | The President feels himself in a state of siege . |
| 24 | Vincent strained every nerve to turn himself into a draughtsman acceptable to the illustrated papers , and the strain showed . |
| 25 | The horse hurt himself on the first jump and despite leading for much of the way round never really mastered the race . |
| 26 | But while Tony Lesser is once again listing the Treasury 's objections to the topics Jane and I have proposed for discussion papers , a picture suddenly comes into my mind , with the most painful vividness , of Summerchild dragging himself across the hard wet ground , on the morning of June 24th 1974 , to the locked gates of that yard behind the Admiralty . |
| 27 | Another former confidant , John Biffen , in effect removed himself from the government after coded criticism of the Prime Minister 's strident , dogmatic style . |
| 28 | The successful Peronist in San Luis , incumbent governor Alberto Rodríguez Saa , announced his intention to present himself as a candidate for the 1995 presidential elections . |
| 29 | He noted the rapid , undignified scramble by which the culprit extricated himself from the ropes on the river path , followed by ominous little trickles of loose earth ; and the exaggerated dignity with which he compensated as soon as he was clear , his slender back turned upon the voice that blasted him out of danger , his crest self-consciously reared in affected disregard of sounds which could not possibly be directed at him . |
| 30 | During the second number , he draped himself in the Union Jack , presumably in an attempt to endear himself to the bulldog breed . |