Example sentences of "of [verb] himself [prep] the " 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 | However , he appreciated the cathartic nature of expressing himself through the written word . |
| 6 | Let the wave carry him up and then sort of hurl himself off the top of it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Part of Lewis 's discovery of himself as a writer was the discovery of a means of presenting himself to the reader . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Nor did he much approve of subjecting himself to the nervous exhaustion of house parties as other peoples ' guest . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And Chancellor Norman Lamont was last night accused of sunning himself as the economy sinks into deeper gloom . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Buckmaster 's habit of distancing himself from the seamier side of the company worried him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He made an absolute mastery of hiding himself behind the personalities he created . ’ |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | " The President has done a good job of putting himself in the position where Arctic drilling is seen as patriotic " , she said . |
| 19 | In terms of identifying himself with the peoples suffering it was a disaster . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In his memoirs , Wilson makes no bones of placing himself in the line of succession of Baldwin , Churchill and Macmillan . |
| 23 | But he 'd shown definite signs of resigning himself to the situation — until her arrival downstairs after breakfast . |
| 24 | He is a star who takes himself seriously and his method-acting technique of thinking himself into the part is legendary . |
| 25 | Since most of the beginner 's forensic work will be in county courts and magistrates ' courts , he should make a special point of familiarising himself with the procedure and powers of these courts . |
| 26 | So Suger persuaded Louis to begin the task — not completed till the reign of Philip Augustus — of extricating himself from the bonds of homage which bound him to various bishops in the realm . |
| 27 | If he is afraid of compromising himself in the eyes of Messrs Goupil and Co by keeping in touch with me , is his position with those gentlemen so shaky and unstable that he is obliged to be so careful ? ’ |
| 28 | Scandal came easy to him , it was simply a way of life , a way of raising himself above the ordinariness of his upbringing in Fife . |
| 29 | Three minutes into the second-half the non-Leaguers ' obligatory fireman , Mottashed , instead of shooting himself in the foot , set fire to himself with a jittery own goal and Loram shortly made it 3-1 , deader than dead . |
| 30 | Seb realised immediately that Boz was seeking trouble as a means of purging himself of the anger and frustration that was bubbling inside him . |