Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] himself " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | if he 'd loved or liked himself , |
| 2 | Remembering my conversations with him at the end of 1975 and the beginning of 1976 , it was clear that he wanted fresh fields to conquer , that he thought he had more than proved himself as a racing driver and that he thought he could , with no great difficulty , follow a Bruce McLaren , for instance , and make his own way in cars of his own . |
| 3 | The following afternoon he struggled into the white loons , which he had washed and ironed himself . |
| 4 | And then he had watched two men leave the Tower and walk across towards the Stones , towards his Stones , and he had clambered down from his perch and hidden himself where they would not see him but where he could watch them . |
| 5 | Lennox also hit back at critics , who claim he should have avoided the dangerous Ruddock and hidden himself away for a world title shot , snapping : ‘ I know the British fight fans will respect me for going in against the best instead of facing an easy touch . |
| 6 | He could of course have taken the easy option and given himself up , or laid up along the coast somewhere until the advancing Eighth Army caught up with him . |
| 7 | ‘ Should be , should n't there ? ’ said Joe , who 'd put his new jersey on and given himself an expensive look . |
| 8 | Having started the design ball rolling and given himself some idea of cast requirements , Barry moved on to his foremost task that of constructing the camera script . |
| 9 | You see , Toscanini was not a bad man ; he was so musically dedicated and disciplined himself that he simply could n't understand that some people can play a false note or play out of time . |
| 10 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 11 | However , the great Wallaby no.8 , Tim Gavin , after missing the World Cup — and being sorely missed there — has recovered and made himself available for selection . |
| 12 | We took Roydale and Fringe from the lads and when Tremayne had driven off and positioned himself on his hillock we started together up the all-weather gallop , going the fastest I 'd been ever . |
| 13 | He describes the case of Mutang'ang'i one of the leading informals who at that time made foreguards for bicycles , bicycle stands and cutting machines using a series of hand-built metalworking machines which he had designed and built himself . |
| 14 | Marsh went away and was not silly for he came back with a micro-testing machine which worked , which he had designed and built himself . |
| 15 | We got to hear about this " mad American " who had designed and built himself a magnificent villa in an almost inaccessible spot on the side of the mountain . |
| 16 | By the time he had rallied and got himself together and was thinking of things to say to the police it was too late and they were heading north . |
| 17 | Oxford , the scholarship , would then have been the defining influence , become the place in which he could have planted his flag and redrawn himself . |
| 18 | He has always worked hard to present himself as a rounded political being and flung himself into debates on law and public safety , the environment and unemployment . |
| 19 | He had climbed in and settled himself down with a sigh of contentment at the way the softness and smoothness of the upholstered seats favoured his weary limbs . |
| 20 | But as she did so , she thought she heard a thin , piercing sound , like the wail of a child who has just wakened up and found himself alone . |
| 21 | It was ultimately Craig 's responsibility and yet he had stood back and allowed himself to be duped and Emily 's father to be ruined . |