Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the man without interest , the opportunity to distinguish himself in action , and thus by securing mentions in despatches to attract the attention of the Admiralty , was a harder road to advancement . |
| 2 | In his ecstasy , the worshipper saw himself as a satyr and " as a satyr , in turn , he saw his god " . |
| 3 | ‘ He put his foot between the two bottom rungs of the ladder and then caught at the upright to save himself from staggering . |
| 4 | With the publication of what was his most important work apart from the Idées , namely the Extinction du Paupérisme , the Prince showed himself to be aware of the grave socio-economic problems which afflicted the mass of the French people ; to whom he now offered a solution . |
| 5 | The wizard pulled himself across the floor , painfully , and whispered , ‘ What the hell was that ? ’ |
| 6 | On the one hand medicine is seen as a body of scientific knowledge and as a set of techniques , for which the GP feels himself to be relatively poorly equipped . |
| 7 | Vincent would soon see the struggle to turn himself into what he called a Peasant painter as his prime aim . |
| 8 | In winter the chestnut-seller installed himself at the edge of the market . |
| 9 | In Lectio , therefore , God revealed himself and in Oratio the monk offered himself to God . |
| 10 | Corporate sailing , either as a training exercise , a reward , or just because the chairman fancies himself as Captain Bligh , is a fast growing business . |
| 11 | ‘ When a dealing is had between a seller like Mr. Lewis and a person who is actually there present before him , then the presumption in law is that there is a contract , even though there is a fraudulent impersonation by the buyer representing himself as a different man than he is . |
| 12 | The Archdeacon accused himself at many levels , not the least professional . |
| 13 | He became a Congregational minister , but his views about God 's inclusive care for the ‘ ’ heathen ’ and his views about the divine revelation in the Bible , brought him into conflict with the narrow-mindedness of some of his congregation , and in 1893 he left the ministry to devote himself to writing . |
| 14 | He did not , like them , attempt to enter on a ruinous competition with the new mode of conveyance , but on the contrary adapted himself to changed circumstances , and became a railway carriage builder . |
| 15 | The male positions himself at the edge of the nest and fires a rapid succession of water droplets one to two inches out of the water and onto the nest itself to possibly agitate the eggs for recognition purposes . |
| 16 | The male places himself behind the female and pecks at her cloaca . |
| 17 | The male busies himself with placing the eggs in a nest , and when this is complete , the ritual can begin again . |
| 18 | he sez they went to several addresses but then the driver surrendered himself at the police station . |
| 19 | The mandarin excused himself with a nervous smile and moved quickly away across the antechamber to talk with a group of French officials . |
| 20 | Though one is lost and another damaged , the survivor is sent off into space with the forest when the scientist destroys himself with his ship to conceal the fact that the forest still exists . |
| 21 | In its original meaning çift referred to the smallest unit of land which could support a family , and in the early days of the timar system the çift was the core holding which the timarli farmed himself for the benefit of his own family . |
| 22 | James , who has still to keep a clean sheet , would be disappointed to be overlooked , but he has the confidence and the talent to establish himself at Anfield . |
| 23 | James , who has still to keep a clean sheet , would be disappointed to be overlooked , but he has the confidence and the talent to establish himself at Anfield . |
| 24 | The mathematician propelled himself towards the prone figure some yards away . |
| 25 | The President feels himself in a state of siege . |
| 26 | And the sparrow preened himself of yesterday 's promise |
| 27 | The Seventh , however , is reined back to the point of stodginess , at least until the white-hot finale and even there one of the trumpets forgets himself in the last three bars . |
| 28 | The reformulated law makes it plain that an offence is committed if the defendant conducts himself in a way that causes his victim to anticipate that the defendant is about to use unlawful violence . |
| 29 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 30 | But the priest allowed himself to be seated and to have a glass of wine poured for him . |