Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having gained that second term , Lange appointed himself Minister of Education , swapping his foreign affairs portfolio with Russell Marshall , thus signalling a major initiative in education reform . |
| 2 | ‘ Monsieur Gaston concerned himself with other things . ’ |
| 3 | Accepting her inspection , he waited , one hand on the mast support to steady himself . |
| 4 | Will signs himself off as " ye Miner . " |
| 5 | Patrick flung himself on the mattress which Sarah was to use , and jumped up and down on his knees , full of boyish energy . |
| 6 | Asa asked himself . |
| 7 | As he reflected on the brutality of what he had seen done in the name of religion in the Civil War , Taylor asked himself , ‘ If persons be Christians in their lives and Christians in their profession , … why should I hate such persons whom God loves and who love God , because … they have not the same opinion as I have ? ’ |
| 8 | How the hell can I tell her after what she 's just been through , Newman asked himself . |
| 9 | His run at Haydock last time is best ignored as George Duffield got himself jammed in on the rails until too late . |
| 10 | Trent seated himself on the taffrail . |
| 11 | Hauser prided himself on his ability to manipulate human beings . |
| 12 | The white-bearded campaigner prided himself on blunt , outspoken views . |
| 13 | In it he gets a change to indulge himself , hogging the limelight in sketches , songs , dances and serious interviews with fellow controversial figures ranging from the National Front 's Patrick Harrington to mediayob James Whale . |
| 14 | Gurder flung himself face down and buried his nose in it . |
| 15 | But Marcus got himself into trouble , silly boy . |
| 16 | Nevertheless he maintained a friendly attitude towards me and after my initial difficulty made himself available whenever he was needed . |
| 17 | A SENIOR education officer sent letters to leading county council figures before making two attempts to kill himself , it has been revealed . |
| 18 | Roman lowered himself casually into his large executive swivel-chair behind his desk , and directed a dispassionate , shuttered gaze across the neat expanse of tooled dark green leather . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When Charles Temple asked himself what form the finally evolved connection between the conquering races and the conquered , now existing in partially evolved form as Indirect Rule , and based on ‘ the relations which exist between a more competent man and a less competent ’ , might take , he answered that he saw no reason |
| 21 | Pascoe asked himself . |
| 22 | Now happily married to actress Gwen Humble , 38 , Ian found himself studying an action replay of his early days as a hell-raising Hollywood star as it ran through his mind — and he winced at what he saw . |
| 23 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 24 | Adam lost his spiritual purity through eating the forbidden fruit , so God gave him the opportunity to reinstate himself partially through immersion in the original water which came from Eden . |
| 25 | Something tells me he wo n't pass up this opportunity to establish himself as an international . |
| 26 | The male busies himself with placing the eggs in a nest , and when this is complete , the ritual can begin again . |
| 27 | In recent years Levinas has himself articulated more explicitly his account of the relation of the ethical to the political . |
| 28 | Wallace 's attempts to establish himself at United have been hindered by the player 's desperation to become a Stretford End hero as Fergie explained : ‘ He tried too hard to make himself popular . |
| 29 | Partner Ferdinand has had his back to the wall in the last few months , a troublesome disc plaguing his attempts to establish himself last spring and resulting in him coming home early from America . |
| 30 | My companion took this opportunity to hide himself in his papers . |