Example sentences of "[prep] himself at " in BNC.
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| 1 | This resulted in his becoming more distressed and unable to cope with either his work or looking after himself at home . |
| 2 | 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 ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | We know from external evidence that Milton is clearly talking about himself at this point . |
| 5 | Shakespeare 's technique , to let us into a secret that the hero will only discover for himself at the end , is a common one in playwriting and storytelling . |
| 6 | But the ever-smiling Adams , who has been dogged by a catalogue of injuries over the past two years , was in no mood to feel sorry for himself at Party Politics ' home-coming , attended by more than 500 people in Upper Lambourn yesterday . |
| 7 | She helps William Ernest with his reading and encourages him to stick up for himself at school . |
| 8 | Wright , a player I 've admired since he made a name for himself at Crystal Palace , was strangely ignored for the European championship finals . |
| 9 | Hatim asked me if I could confirm a rumour , circulating in Baghdad , that Odeh , Saddam 's son , had given a birthday party for himself at which he and his 300 guests had all worn purple and drunk out of purple goblets . |
| 10 | Throughout his life the author loved and drew inspiration from the whole region , from Smailholm to ‘ Scott 's View ’ above the river Tweed and the house he built for himself at Abbotsford . |
| 11 | Russell was what you might call a social climber , inasmuch as he specialized in fitting out rock shelters for himself at various altitudes and if possible receiving his friends in them . |
| 12 | Gould also made a considerable name for himself at home , finally attaining the scientific status he had yearned for as an ornithologist , on or off the field . |
| 13 | When he built a bungalow for himself at Kinmel Bay in 1971 it was the start of a house-building career which was to lead to the receiving of important awards at national ceremonies in top London hotels . |
| 14 | The Archbishop should be thoroughly ashamed of himself at the failure of the efforts of the Church to create a better society . |
| 15 | The image Hitler portrayed of himself at the Nuremberg Rally was clearly consonant with the wide acceptance of the broad principles of legal discrimination and racial segregation , and with the satisfaction generally felt at the ending of the open brutality and pogrom-like anti Jewish disturbances of the vulgar anti-Semites . |
| 16 | But he was almost canned again , this time because the director Larry Arrick thought Dustin was not giving enough of himself at rehearsals . |
| 17 | As he says of himself at that juncture in his career , his quitting in Monaco was ‘ the climax to a situation which had existed all year , stemming … basically from a lack of interest and enthusiasm ’ . |
| 18 | He had the curious ability to erase , or at least pretend to erase , from his memory that which did not suit his idea of himself at the time . |
| 19 | ‘ He can have heard nothing of himself at all , ’ said Cadfael contentedly . |
| 20 | I expected him to answer her back — there was such a passion in his music , he did n't sound like himself at all , any more than he had looked like himself yesterday — but he just struck the wires of his guitar into a discord and after that there was a beaten silence , and Doris stamped off downstairs again , talking all the way about her poor legs and her poor head . |
| 21 | For our purposes , the distinction could be that a diary is written at the time of the event , memoirs are a writer 's recollections of a particular period ( perhaps aided by diaries ) in which he was not necessarily the central character , while an autobiography is an attempt to give a systematic and chronological record of the author 's life , with himself at the centre of the story . |
| 22 | What he expected was to see the Labour Government driven into an election either by its own dissensions or by the action of the Liberals , and its consequent replacement by a Conservative administration , obviously with himself at the head . |
| 23 | He thought briefly about Surere again , and wondered with something akin to panic whether he would reappear ; then , angered with himself at this disloyalty to a former colleague and certainly a fellow-sufferer under the new regime , he dismissed the matter and concentrated instead on what he would say to Taheb . |
| 24 | And Malone is even managing to get in trouble with himself at the moment . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll have Lou Collins pick them up himself at the airbase on touchdown . ’ |
| 26 | She had been nineteen when her mother died , old enough to notice how poor old Pa seemed to shrink inside himself at the time . |
| 27 | When he had gone , Arty , smiling to himself at what he considered a victory , got out of bed and set off for the bathroom to wash his hair . |
| 28 | McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript . |
| 29 | ( Miklós was chuckling to himself at this . ) |
| 30 | He smiled to himself at the head of the stairs . |