Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [v-ing] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Deep as a well , and for all his strength and prowess — for he could hold his own with any boy of his age , afoot or on horseback , when he chose — looking and bearing himself like a clerk , and sometimes even like a clerk in orders . |
2 | Thus completed , he signed the form ‘ accepting and submitting himself to the statutes , rules , regulations and ordinances of McGill University and of the Faculty or Faculties in which I am registered , and to any amendments thereto which may be made while I am a student of the university and I promise to observe the same . ’ |
3 | A few minutes , and Aldhelm would have been stirring and hauling himself to his feet . |
4 | He was going to spend the show hissing and flinging himself across the scaffolding arch which ran up the sides and across the top of the stage , and from which monkeys dangled , taunting Baloo the bear , who could n't climb and groaned a lot . |
5 | It might be very unwise to accost him , to ask him just what he thought he was doing — trespassing and helping himself to food . |
6 | Occasionally mainman Simon Breed will become so preoccupied with his crazed exhibition , he neglects the art of singing into the mic , grappling with his guitar as if it were a rabid pitbull while savagely screaming and throwing himself around the stage like an out-take from Nightmare On Elm Street . |