Example sentences of "he [verb] himself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His many-sided aesthetic interests led him to surround himself with first editions , Bristol glass , mother-of-pearl knick-knacks , and , above all , his notable collection of musical boxes ( later given to the Pitt Rivers Museum , Oxford ) . |
| 2 | She had lived to see him prove himself beyond all her expectations . |
| 3 | With the agreement of Tony 's parents , Tony would follow a partial timetable for between two and three weeks , allowing him to phase himself into full attendance at the school . |
| 4 | He hugged himself in self-pity as we took in this alien race dressed with an abandonment and originality we 'd never imagined possible . |
| 5 | He plunged himself into all this and more , avidly reading everything that came his way ; especially poetry , and not least Spanish , Chinese and Japanese poets in translation , but chiefly that of Federico Garçia Lorca and W.B. Yeats , of whom he mused , ‘ I loved Yeats ; his connections ( such an important code-word with Leonard ! ) his rhythms . ’ |
| 6 | He seated himself at one end , and Emily sat beside him . |
| 7 | He looked too big for the room as he seated himself in one of the armchairs . |
| 8 | Already under a probation order for attacking a songwriter the previous year , he found himself on another assault charge . |
| 9 | He found himself under severe pressure last year when the pit closure programme was announced . |
| 10 | He was a fanatical fisherman , and here on the borders of Galway and Mayo he found himself in some of the best fishing waters in Europe . |
| 11 | He found himself in enormous buildings , with a labyrinth of rooms , and he was lost in the pile . |
| 12 | He manifests himself to each of us uniquely . ’ |
| 13 | This is virtually Nithard 's last word ; and he offers an explanation of Adalard 's power : " Caring little for the public good , he devoted himself to pleasing everyone . |
| 14 | In the Commons he devoted himself to Indian affairs with an emphasis on finance and on opening the Indian Civil Service to Indians . |
| 15 | As a general rule Green in his Guide recommends the skies be a quarter blue and three quarters grey , and he holds himself to this idea most strictly . |
| 16 | ( And rather shocked that he helped himself to two of Helmut 's silk scarves . |
| 17 | He helped himself to some more wine . |
| 18 | He helped himself to some more lamb tikka masala . |
| 19 | He helped himself to another brandy and waved the bottle before Herr Nordern 's eyes . |
| 20 | The Brigadier seemed to be thinking furiously as he helped himself to another glass of port . |
| 21 | He left the sentence hanging as he helped himself to more rum . |
| 22 | He let himself into one of the houses through the skylight and waited , hardly daring to breath , to see if he had been detected . |
| 23 | He bore himself with great dignity , and not a little humour , but he was disappointed to the innermost core . |
| 24 | He first met Wordsworth in 1795 and corresponded with him thereafter ; meanwhile he dedicated himself to Left-wing political and religious propaganda , writing and lecturing in provincial towns . |
| 25 | He punished himself through two bouts of his heaviest exercises , until his upper arms ached , his stomach muscles felt cramped , his legs watered , head dizzy . |
| 26 | But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away . |
| 27 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |
| 28 | He stirred himself at last and looked round , to find one even more worn out with weariness than himself . |
| 29 | He displaced himself by two miles south . |
| 30 | Eduard Trier chose to illustrate this figure in Form and Space , in which he limits himself to two observations : it is a product of refined artificiality ( in comparison with the elemental force of Marino Marini 's sculpture ) , and the girl ( in comparison with a figure by Marcello Mascherini ) is ‘ more reserved , displays a leisurely elegance in her arrested dance step ’ . |