Example sentences of "[prep] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll have it out himself with the Venetians . ’ |
| 2 | He then produced the £15 and counted it out himself on the corner of the table , not letting the chairman or anyone else do so . |
| 3 | When he drank , he grew miserable and would throw every living creature out of the house , wife , children , dog and pigeons , and then rush out himself to Powis Square . |
| 4 | mother you do not have to stay there , why , I mean he 's quite capable looking after himself for a weekend , you know my father had a series of stroke 's when he was in his fifties |
| 5 | This resulted in his becoming more distressed and unable to cope with either his work or looking after himself at home . |
| 6 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |
| 7 | Allen could look after himself in the forest . |
| 8 | That strength comes from the fact that Eubank knows how to look after himself in more ways than one . |
| 9 | As it happened he was well able to look after himself in such matters . |
| 10 | He took him hunting with the Old Berkshire where he jumped all sorts of obstacles and had to learn to look after himself in tricky situations and he found a new enthusiasm . |
| 11 | Has he learned or discovered anything about himself during the past four years ? |
| 12 | He had deeply resented the questions about himself as a personality , but had accepted Kegan 's whispered warning about antagonizing them again , and had submitted with the best grace he could muster . |
| 13 | In April he was still having difficulty in completing the book and in a letter to Henry Treece in September he was again expressing doubts about himself as a writer . |
| 14 | This was another characteristic that he had : he often talked about himself as if he had custody of someone who needed a lot of upbringing . |
| 15 | Quiet , never shouting about himself to the world . |
| 16 | Next morning Davis laid about himself for 77 , his highest first-class score , Botham again bowling poorly and being punished for it . |
| 17 | Could he give them a few facts about himself for the company 's press release ? |
| 18 | Dunan was there , flailing like a maniac , whilst Mullach was laying about himself with something like ecstasy written all over his brutal face . |
| 19 | Remember the anecdote about the actor who , after talking about himself at length , then says , ‘ But that 's enough about me , let's talk about you — what do you think of me ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Any advantage the Americans have around the greens has been taken away this year because the rough is n't so severe , ’ added the Scot , who learned much about himself at Pebble Beach when he finished third behind Tom Kite . |
| 21 | We know from external evidence that Milton is clearly talking about himself at this point . |
| 22 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
| 23 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
| 24 | May the Lord enrich and increase your witness to the Truth about Himself in the indifferent society around you . |
| 25 | Although literary critics have been cautious about assuming that Hoccleve is indeed writing about himself in these passages , rather than adopting a conventional autobiographical stance which is in fact a fiction , there are strong arguments to support the reality of his claims . |
| 26 | As he was doing that , he saw the paragraph about himself in The Stage and planted his shoe over it . |
| 27 | He was starting to feel like a bundle of notes about himself in a case-history folder in hospital , one of the folders labelled ‘ NOT TO BE HANDLED BY PATIENT . ’ |
| 28 | And about himself in relation to her . |
| 29 | He told me about himself in a cab after a show . ’ |
| 30 | Under the Access to Personal Files Act 1987 any individual has a right of access to personal information about himself in local authority social work records subject to certain exemptions . |