Example sentences of "of [verb] himself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wally was awarded the job for his bravery in receiving extensive brain surgery after years of concussing himself on the crossbar . |
| 2 | Mr Battleaxe is in danger of lancing himself in the foot : in the sentence quoted from my letter , he inserts the word ‘ sic ’ — inside curved brackets . |
| 3 | It 's changed partly because Stalin 's er strategy in China has been shown to be a disaster and Stalin is trying to cover his tracks and most effective way of protecting himself against the criticism and the unpopularity which is likely to come from the failure is by insisting that the strategy was right all along and the revolution is about to triumph . |
| 4 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 5 | A Devil , mischievous , destructive but lovable , appears and contrives by various ruses , such as that of disguising himself as a beautiful girl , to amuse himself in causing havoc and death among the soldiers and finally , by playing furiously upon his violin , to force the villagers to dance to death . |
| 6 | However , he appreciated the cathartic nature of expressing himself through the written word . |
| 7 | When he was at school , Gazzer 's graffiti had been part of his act : another way of establishing himself as a ‘ character ’ , of making his mates laugh . |
| 8 | Let the wave carry him up and then sort of hurl himself off the top of it . |
| 9 | BERNHARD LANGER , the co-organiser of the German Masters , had the enviable task of presenting himself with the £55,000 winner 's cheque here yesterday . |
| 10 | Part of Lewis 's discovery of himself as a writer was the discovery of a means of presenting himself to the reader . |
| 11 | In conversations snatched in the backs of taxis between meetings , and in office anterooms , Branson spoke about the process of turning himself into a public figure if the airline were to succeed , fully aware of the consequences . |
| 12 | He had no intention of getting himself into a stew about that . |
| 13 | Morceli says he is ‘ 80 per cent ’ confident of providing himself with the perfect 23rd birthday present by eclipsing Eamonn Coghlan 's ten-year-old mile mark of 3min 49.78sec but Norman believes other records will also tumble , with Colin Jackson in the 60m hurdles and Murray providing the British challenge . |
| 14 | Nor did he much approve of subjecting himself to the nervous exhaustion of house parties as other peoples ' guest . |
| 15 | But er we found a pair of jeans er and having made sure that the jeans were empty of anything , er we sort of shuffled himself into the jeans a he lay down and we pulled , I I pulled the jeans up . |
| 16 | During the months of recuperation and the months of rediscovering himself as a changed person , a quick-tempered , irritable person , nervous and hypochondriacal , Tom thought of sex and love as remote concepts that were not for him , that were ridiculous for him to consider . |
| 17 | And Chancellor Norman Lamont was last night accused of sunning himself as the economy sinks into deeper gloom . |
| 18 | By then ‘ Tixier ’ had taken his anti-Gaullist crusade to the point of running himself as a presidential candidate . |
| 19 | There is nothing clear-cut or standardised about it ; but one may envisage ( and sometimes see quite clearly in real life ) the difference in effect between that of divorce when the child is still at the stage of total reliance on the mother , perhaps with fierce submerged conflict with the male parent , and that taking place when the boy is at the age of modelling himself on the father and establishing male identity through him . |
| 20 | Buckmaster 's habit of distancing himself from the seamier side of the company worried him . |
| 21 | Closer co-operation with Western Europe was ideally suited to Adenauer 's policy of distancing himself from the Eastern bloc after September 1955 , when Moscow upset him by recognising East Germany as a sovereign state . |
| 22 | Ankara diplomats saw his resignation as a way of distancing himself from an unpopular government . |
| 23 | He made an absolute mastery of hiding himself behind the personalities he created . ’ |
| 24 | The army Captain taught the Commander the knack of hoisting himself aboard a canoe over its stern , and how to vault astride one steadied by a paddler already aboard . |
| 25 | Is it not also a fact that in this case it is clear that , if the Court of Appeal believes that he had no intention of flouting a court order and of putting himself above the law , that should be good enough for the rest of us ? |
| 26 | " The President has done a good job of putting himself in the position where Arctic drilling is seen as patriotic " , she said . |
| 27 | In terms of identifying himself with the peoples suffering it was a disaster . |
| 28 | He was wary of identifying himself to the French people as a " democrat " at a time when democracy was equated with the detested Third Republic . |
| 29 | It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels . |
| 30 | In his memoirs , Wilson makes no bones of placing himself in the line of succession of Baldwin , Churchill and Macmillan . |