Example sentences of "and [v-ing] himself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was established that individual pathetic character once and forever by tying one end of his pocket handkerchief to a hook on , in the wall and attaching himself to the other to the performance , to , to the performance of this feat however the pocket handkerchief inside had been all he , he only cried bitterly all day and when the longest nights came on he spread his little hand before his eyes to shut out the darkness and crouching in the corner tried to sleep , everyone drawing himself closer and closer to the wall |
| 2 | ‘ How did you get on today — have you found a nanny to help you with the children ? ’ he added , throwing her into confusion by casually giving her a peck on the cheek before leaning across the table and helping himself to a slice of chocolate cake . |
| 3 | LUKE SAT ON AN expo love-seat in Club World at Heathrow , drinking Volvic and availing himself of a complimentary fax machine — clearing up the initial paperwork with Mike on the poem . |
| 4 | He flung the bedcovers off and stood up , shaking and staring wildly into the darkness , trying to identify the threat , knowing it had to be the Corsican and bracing himself for the shotgun blast that would cut him in half , disembowel him , blow his head off , send it bouncing across the floor of the bedroom . |
| 5 | Thus completed , he signed the form ‘ accepting and submitting himself to the statutes , rules , regulations and ordinances of McGill University and of the Faculty or Faculties in which I am registered , and to any amendments thereto which may be made while I am a student of the university and I promise to observe the same . ’ |
| 6 | The boy rolled over and came on to one knee in a single lunge , and hurling himself at the man , caught him round the thighs with both arms , and swept him with him through the opening . |
| 7 | There he made a clean sweep with the past by changing his surname from Kaye to Kasmin and launching himself on a career as a poet . |
| 8 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |
| 9 | As a teenager he signed for Rangers , winning a League Cup Winner 's medal at 17 , and establishing himself as a prominent newcomer in the Scotland Youth Team . |
| 10 | Eventually Don grappled with the critical section , and with a quick windmill of arms and legs was up and establishing himself on the next stance . |
| 11 | With the collapse of the Leveller movement in 1649 Chidley turned his energies to building a separatist congregation in London , promoting social reform , and enriching himself on the spoils of revolution . |
| 12 | He was going to spend the show hissing and flinging himself across the scaffolding arch which ran up the sides and across the top of the stage , and from which monkeys dangled , taunting Baloo the bear , who could n't climb and groaned a lot . |
| 13 | Martin Luther , excommunicated by the Pope and defending himself before the Emperor , closes his statement with the celebrated words : ‘ My conscience is taken captive by God 's word , I can not and will not recant anything . |
| 14 | ‘ Come in , ’ he called in a low voice , expecting Clare , and steeling himself for a long and exhausting reconciliation . |
| 15 | But in the short and euphoric interval , even Mr Mann has softened his approach , indicating that he was now prepared to accept the constitution of India , and distancing himself from the latest demands by the ultra-belligerent Sikh student movement for an alternative government . |
| 16 | But in the short and euphoric interval , even Mr Mann has softened his approach , indicating that he was now prepared to accept the constitution of India , and distancing himself from the latest demands by the ultra-belligerent Sikh student movement for an alternative government . |
| 17 | And finding himself in the musical cauldron that was Minneapolis at the turn of the '80s must have helped … |
| 18 | Bachelard assumed the necessary division of the scientific from the non-scientific , even if de facto he was continually encountering their imbrication and finding himself in the position of trying to keep them apart . |
| 19 | There must be something in this : when morning came , amid some laughter , my husband re-enacted the closing chapter of the old year by going up into the rafters and suspending himself through the hole so that I could take photographs . |
| 20 | Once he had arrived at the Southern Capital , he had proclaimed his loyalty to the old gods loudly and publicly , disowning the Aten and throwing himself on the mercy of the priests of Amun , who even then were growing bold as the revolutionary pharaoh lost his grip both on reality and his empire . |
| 21 | Occasionally mainman Simon Breed will become so preoccupied with his crazed exhibition , he neglects the art of singing into the mic , grappling with his guitar as if it were a rabid pitbull while savagely screaming and throwing himself around the stage like an out-take from Nightmare On Elm Street . |
| 22 | He could not recall lurching like a drunk across the small room and throwing himself in a gibbering heap upon the bed . |
| 23 | Deep as a well , and for all his strength and prowess — for he could hold his own with any boy of his age , afoot or on horseback , when he chose — looking and bearing himself like a clerk , and sometimes even like a clerk in orders . |
| 24 | Desmond Haynes ' first taste of Test captaincy was not a very happy experience , going for a duck in the first innings , dropping a catch and demeaning himself with the sledging as the match slipped away . |
| 25 | Peregrine , however , was there lying back in his chair and offering himself to the hot sun in rather a shameless way . |
| 26 | Brundle is , however , merely warming up the brakes and tyres and re-acquainting himself with the lines of his old home track . |