Example sentences of "he was [verb] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all Meredith was not alluding to her , any more than he was casting himself in the role of Caesar . |
| 2 | He was dealing himself in too much . |
| 3 | He was proving himself to be not only an accurate witness to the times , but a respected one , too . |
| 4 | I could see he was bracing himself for his act . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was drowning himself in booze and self-pity . |
| 7 | It is strange how so many of Palin 's characters , from Pythons ' Mr Gumby through to the stuttering animal-loving crook in Cleese 's A Fish Called Wanda , seemed to be based on his father , almost as if he was persecuting himself by playing infinite versions of the man . |
| 8 | The ‘ English gentleman ’ star spent five days in hospital with a perforated ulcer — and was told he was drinking himself to death . |
| 9 | Essentially he was establishing himself as a figure of imperial stature , as his gold coinage reveals . |
| 10 | In 1964 Mr Wilson presented himself as a radical figure , but by 1974 he was comparing himself to a family doctor , and hoped , in his own words , ‘ to achieve … peace and quiet for the country ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Many felt he was allowing himself to be misrepresented . ’ |
| 12 | He was taking himself to the limit and then pushing on from there . |
| 13 | It occurred to Cassie that he was keeping himself under an unnatural control , like a muzzled animal . |
| 14 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 15 | To Warnie , he had written a letter fall of the gravest admonitions , designed to make him think carefully about what he was committing himself to . |
| 16 | Then I realized he was putting himself into the part . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He was probing himself for me . |
| 19 | He was killing himself with laughing , but dashed over to the security man and put Kenny out of his misery . |
| 20 | In a suicide note Nguyen Van Hai said that he was killing himself in protest at Hong Kong 's refugee screening policy . |
| 21 | He was losing himself in the grey surf of her eyes , his heart threatening to smother him with its frenzied pounding . |
| 22 | He had no time for the cant of the priests about sin , but he knew , as he lay in the barracks hearing the grunts and panting of his companions , that he was honing himself for a superior form by refusing his body . |
| 23 | Ward 's excuse for talking in Spanish had been that he was accustoming himself to using it freely . |
| 24 | He was preparing himself for a British Council tour of France but it was cancelled at the last moment ; he did , however , fly to Amsterdam and then on to Rome in December under the auspices of the same organization . |
| 25 | Surely he must have realised that he was pitting himself against a concern of considerable strength . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , Meacher was only acting : he was playing himself in the 1985 TV drama Edge of Darkness , which the BBC is repeating . |
| 27 | Gandhi himself claimed that his purpose in fasting was to take upon himself the burden of the workers ; he was identifying himself with them and sharing their despair , frustration and suffering . |
| 28 | In fact he was identifying himself with his Girondin friends who were guillotined by the Jacobins in October and November 1793 ; although the story that Wordsworth visited France at this time to take help to the Girondins may be untrue , this is clearly what he would have wished to do if an opportunity had arisen . |
| 29 | He was defending himself with great skill , every now and then sliding his hands down the staff and striking at a distance with its full length , and then suddenly changing direction and bringing the shortened end up in a jab at the face or stomach of one of the attackers he had tempted to come too close . |
| 30 | While householders fumed in queues to find out how they should pay , he was sunning himself on an Indian Ocean holiday . |