Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] himself [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 4 | The fourth man had abandoned their horses to his wounded companion and was launching himself into the fray . |
| 5 | Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit . |
| 6 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 7 | ‘ Ca n't you leave us alone now ? ’ he pleaded and Wexford felt impotently that once again the man was enclosing himself within the unimpregnable defence of grief . |
| 8 | Sheila Hancock agrees that a great deal of the Williams intellectual showing off was to rid himself of the ‘ Carry On ’ persona . |
| 9 | No , the best he could do was to fortify himself with the Nielson family , and wait a century or two . |
| 10 | Eisenhower , who was in the midst of his re-election campaign and was presenting himself to the American electorate as ‘ a man of peace ’ , failed to make clear to his British and French colleagues in the Atlantic Alliance the depth of his reluctance to countenance the use of force over an issue that was only important and not vital to US interests . |
| 11 | Alexander was disporting himself about the boat . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , to knock down old buildings was to put himself beyond the pale — not before time perhaps , but hardly for the right reason . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He was losing himself in the grey surf of her eyes , his heart threatening to smother him with its frenzied pounding . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was taking himself to the limit and then pushing on from there . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Because what Niki was doing-the subject was Niki 's contract and terms for 1977 — was putting himself on the same level as Enzo . |
| 20 | Then I realized he was putting himself into the part . |
| 21 | Or , if the Prince of Wales was to remove himself from the line of succession , that would be a grave matter . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , Meacher was only acting : he was playing himself in the 1985 TV drama Edge of Darkness , which the BBC is repeating . |
| 23 | He 'd put some more money in the meter and was warming himself by the newly-lit fire . |
| 24 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |
| 25 | Doug was throwing himself into the part with relish . |
| 26 | After all Meredith was not alluding to her , any more than he was casting himself in the role of Caesar . |
| 27 | Kersey was briefing himself from the paperwork so far . |
| 28 | Samuel Pipkin was tensing himself for the coming life and death struggle this evening , when the vital decision would be made by the Prince of Wales , and Mr Thackeray would be avenged . |
| 29 | Her old father was extricating himself from the front seat slowly , painfully , gasping , as though he had to push open a heavy coffin lid in order to rise from the dead . |