Example sentences of "[noun prp] [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 | Will signs himself off as " ye Miner . " |
| 4 | Patrick flung himself on the mattress which Sarah was to use , and jumped up and down on his knees , full of boyish energy . |
| 5 | Asa asked himself . |
| 6 | 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 ? ’ |
| 7 | How the hell can I tell her after what she 's just been through , Newman asked himself . |
| 8 | His run at Haydock last time is best ignored as George Duffield got himself jammed in on the rails until too late . |
| 9 | Trent seated himself on the taffrail . |
| 10 | Hauser prided himself on his ability to manipulate human beings . |
| 11 | Gurder flung himself face down and buried his nose in it . |
| 12 | But Marcus got himself into trouble , silly boy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | Pascoe asked himself . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 18 | In recent years Levinas has himself articulated more explicitly his account of the relation of the ethical to the political . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | For a time Malins regarded himself as a Liberal Unionist , but he made policy toward drink the only basis for supporting parliamentary candidates . |
| 21 | In France , Bernard found himself with more time than he had ever been used to in his working life ; after his hour-long morning telephone call to John James the day stretched ahead . |
| 22 | Mr Taylor found himself under attack from members of his own party after he was first selected to stand.It blew up into a national row over allegations of racism before he was confirmed as candidate . |
| 23 | Nizan found himself in a curiously paradoxical situation at this juncture . |
| 24 | And suddenly Steiner found himself saying , ‘ My father . |
| 25 | Denis found himself a little abashed , and rose to cover his embarrassment . |
| 26 | As he suggested that Richards had been less than sporting , Martin-Jenkins found himself banned from the local airwaves and Public Enemy Number One in Barbados ; since he is renowned as a courteous , generous-spirited chap , it brought home to English fans just how fervently Richards is regarded in the Caribbean , although any English supporter who watched the incident on television would have been hard pushed to disagree with Martin-Jenkins 's assessment of it . |
| 27 | So having got back to Egypt ( and he was being harried from one end of the Western Desert to the other by Rommel ) Boyce found himself in a caravan which was his headquarters and also where he lived when he received an order to hare back as fast as possible to El Alamein . |
| 28 | Flashbulbs popped incessantly and Whitlock found himself struggling to focus on the sea of cameras , his eyes darting about in search of anything untoward . |
| 29 | This led to the murder of a shop owner and the next thing that happened , was , Imamu found himself in court on trial for a murder he had not committed . |
| 30 | Luff described himself as ‘ something of a visionary ’ , and during a talk in 1940 indulged in some Wellsian flights of fancy , producing drawings of a tram whose driver 's cab was on the roof giving passengers a clear view forward , and a bus which had folded wings ! |