Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will signs himself off as " ye Miner . " |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The male busies himself with placing the eggs in a nest , and when this is complete , the ritual can begin again . |
| 4 | In recent years Levinas has himself articulated more explicitly his account of the relation of the ethical to the political . |
| 5 | The project has not been immune from some of the criticism levelled at the 400 museum rebuilding or building projects underway since the State launched its new museum policy in 1981 , and the mayor of Nîmes defends himself against accusations of megalomania by saying , ‘ We were lagging culturally . |
| 6 | The male places himself behind the female and pecks at her cloaca . |
| 7 | Although Koch prides himself on his team 's technological programme , he admitted he had overlooked the change to daylight-saving time , which meant the races began an hour earlier , while the wind was still building . |
| 8 | In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past . |
| 9 | Murdoch prides himself on being a journalist with the skill to edit his papers personally as and when he chooses . |
| 10 | We must put all our energies into the preparation for Belle Ile while Schellenberg busies himself with the Steiner affair . ’ |
| 11 | Jim is a founder member of the Elderslie Boys Club — which has been going strong in the area for seven years — and the Stoddards employee has himself contributed 17 years to Boys football . |
| 12 | Despite these various arguments suggesting high unemployment from rapid technical change which are based on the foundation laid by him , Leontief has himself , with a colleague ( Leontief and Duchin 1983 ) , recently published the results of a survey of the likely effects of new technology on the US economy up to the year 2000 which concludes that , far from there being net job losses , there will be a substantial rise in the aggregate labour force over this period due to the rapid take-up of the technology . |
| 13 | The Brazilian has himself been world champion three times . |
| 14 | According to Langford , ‘ The traveller who visits [ Birmingham ] once in six months supposes himself well acquainted with her , but he may chance to find a street of houses in the autumn , where he saw his horse at grass in the spring . ’ |
| 15 | Jilted lover shoots himself in Mercedes |
| 16 | The Funeral March 's central trio becomes a true benediction , with a good deal less de- synchronization than one might have expected , and in his light-fingered whirl through the phantom finale Cortot allows himself just one furious gust before the final explosion . |
| 17 | While John the Divine describes himself to the seven churches in Asia as your partner in patiently enduring the suffering that comes to those who belong to his Kingdom ’ ( Rev. 1:9 ) . |
| 18 | The prat that calls himself the Hitman is how Stock Aitken Waterman 's Pete Waterman describes himself . |
| 19 | Mr Quarmby describes himself as going ‘ cap in hand to the recording companies and asking them for advance rental income ’ . |
| 20 | There 's a bleak line in the book when , his parents divorcing , his father leaving for Europe , Rock quotes himself , aged 11 , saying ‘ I 'll be OK , Dad , I wo n't need Mom so long as I can have the limo . ’ |
| 21 | JOHN SESSIONS describes himself as an actor , comedian and writer , in that order . |
| 22 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 23 | By inventing a myth , the epic poet frees himself from the group . |
| 24 | Nige hurts himself playing football ! |
| 25 | Not many people know that Nick Faldo fancies himself as a comedian and a practical joker . |
| 26 | It is ironic that by privileging sexual difference Scruton shows himself the victim of precisely the modern intensification of sexuality which in other ways he might regard as contributing to a legitimation of the perversions he repudiates . |
| 27 | The probably crazy Frankie introduces himself several times during the LP in a mad US radio DJ voice , and if that is n't novelty enough to make this worthy buying , then ignore it and just marvel at that great voice . |
| 28 | For example , one man pays 90 per cent of the maintenance costs himself , all of which is allowable as tax allowance on medical grounds . |
| 29 | He made it a matter of principle always to take the murder cases himself . |
| 30 | But if young David gets himself into Parliament , I expect he 'll do as good a job on the government back benches as he would in opposition . ’ |