Example sentences of "could n't [verb] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't disgrace himself in front of this woman . |
| 2 | A short time later he could n't prevent himself from asking whether she did n't love him just a little . |
| 3 | Even now he could n't stop himself from making a comic routine out of it : looking at his fingers , his face screwed up in disgust , pretending that he 'd found something unspeakably revolting in the depths of his pocket . |
| 4 | He could n't stop himself from shuddering . |
| 5 | ‘ Eric was so surprised he could n't stop himself from crying . |
| 6 | People who wanted information from him were noting his silence and making their judgments accordingly ; his life seemed to be funnelling down into a pit like so much waste water , and yet he could n't stir himself to the right kind of action . |
| 7 | He had , he knew his stuff obviously , but he — I mean the fact , the way looked on Goudy and that whole thing , he just could n't take himself beyond that certain . |
| 8 | The power axe , clenched in his mailed fist , still hewed away at the same small area in front of him , but for the life of him he could n't push himself into the space it liquefied , nor could he shift the weapon to left or to right , so firmly was his arm held by the hydra . |
| 9 | This was all quite accepted , but he could n't rid himself of the memory of his wife gazing blankly at the breakfast table with only the prospect of clearing it . |