Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no crew as such because the Doom Diver effectively launches himself , although it is assumed that there are a number of Doom Divers ready and willing to step forward and be catapulted into the air . |
| 2 | He usually sleeps for a couple of days and then slowly builds himself up for the next trip . |
| 3 | Throughout it all , he keenly defends himself against the propaganda with which the minders assigned to foreign journalists bombard him . |
| 4 | ‘ But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment ; whoever does so destroys himself . ’ |
| 5 | As an ‘ old China hand ’ , Mr Bush apparently prides himself on his personal understanding in dealing with the Chinese ; and as a former CIA director , he is not averse to secrecy . |
| 6 | In relation to the Irish worker , he feels himself a member of the ruling nation and so turns himself into a tool of the aristocrats and capitalists of his country against Ireland , thus strengthening their domination over himself . |
| 7 | As in this passage , Genet not only disguises himself in terms of the law , but internalizes the disguise . |
| 8 | Each of those subjects is , in fact , a willing volunteer and is an extrovert by nature , and so allows himself to become part of the entertainment . |
| 9 | A man on a journey , who suddenly loses himself . |
| 10 | While Mrs Thatcher and the Soviet leader settle down to a lunch of veal glazed with mustard and rosemary , washed down by Chateau Margot , Dr. Tomlin only allows himself French water and sea salt . |
| 11 | The thoughts ( obsessions ) may be senseless in themselves , or merely a matter of indifference to the subject ; often they are completely silly , and invariably they are the starting-point of a strenuous mental activity , which exhausts the patient and to which he only surrenders himself most unwillingly . |
| 12 | The wonderful world of show is where he basically sees himself being at … |
| 13 | It 's a word that has an easy place in Justin 's conversation , and it 's pretty clear that , unlike most others in his profession , the wonderful world of show is where he basically sees himself being at . |
| 14 | Poitier plays a homicide cop from a big city who inadvertently finds himself caught up in a murder investigation in the town where he is staying . |
| 15 | If , whatever a man 's real intention may be , he so conducts himself that a reasonable man would believe that he was assenting to the terms proposed by the other party , and that other party upon that belief enters into a contract with him , the man thus conducting himself would be equally bound as if he had intended to agree to the other party 's terms . |
| 16 | A way of finding out things not only about going faster and further , but also about the new things the child suddenly finds himself able to do . |
| 17 | He is bound apprentice to Joe , but suddenly finds himself being promised ‘ great expectations ’ from a mysterious benefactor by Mr Jaggers . |
| 18 | So we have a story that may or may not be a story ( it had already appeared in The People back in January , when it raised few eyebrows ) , and a news reporter who suddenly finds himself giving press conferences rather than attending them . |
| 19 | A stockbroker looking at Vermeer 's ‘ Portrait of a Young Woman at the Met ’ suddenly finds himself alongside another woman whose face resembles the painting . |
| 20 | A man of ninety suddenly finds himself the oldest man in the village not necessarily because he is ninety but because a man of ninety-one died yesterday . |
| 21 | In examining my own background it seems logical to refer to the findings of Selvini Palazzoli and Minuchin on the families of anorexics , but whereas Minuchin especially confines himself to the family ambience at the time of the onset of the disease , I should like to say a little more about the genesis of that family ambience . |
| 22 | Submitting to ‘ Be aware ’ , he attends closely to his situation and to his own reactions , and instead of trying to infer from principles how he ought to respond , discovers how when most aware he does respond , and perhaps surprises himself by an impulse contrary to social convention or to his own self-image . |
| 23 | He believes it is important that he not only satisfies himself , but also others . |
| 24 | Ballesteros rarely allows himself time away from the game . |
| 25 | He discreetly allows himself to be steered . |
| 26 | If we do n't get to him quickly he just tears himself apart . ’ |
| 27 | In concert , Pollini 's almost super-human control is just as evident , yet he normally allows himself a degree of flexbility which one rarely encounters in the studio . |
| 28 | Or , one might say , the Reeve 's Prologue is where the Reeve makes his confession , publicly , and thus frees himself from the charge of seeing motes in the eyes of others and ignoring a beam in his own : which is just the figure he ends his Prologue with in commenting upon the Miller . |
| 29 | The use of I in the paraphrase suggests moreover that it is the speaker who somehow sees himself before the infinitive event because it implies that he has not yet realized his desire . |
| 30 | His unit is stationed near the Cambodian border , and Chris soon finds himself on a night patrol in the jungle . |