Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will signs himself off as " ye Miner . " |
| 2 | In recent years Levinas has himself articulated more explicitly his account of the relation of the ethical to the political . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Murdoch prides himself on being a journalist with the skill to edit his papers personally as and when he chooses . |
| 6 | We must put all our energies into the preparation for Belle Ile while Schellenberg busies himself with the Steiner affair . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The prat that calls himself the Hitman is how Stock Aitken Waterman 's Pete Waterman describes himself . |
| 9 | Mr Quarmby describes himself as going ‘ cap in hand to the recording companies and asking them for advance rental income ’ . |
| 10 | Not many people know that Nick Faldo fancies himself as a comedian and a practical joker . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Gibson Keddie finds himself on the wrong end of a tongue lashing … |
| 15 | Claire springs into bathroom with cry of rage ( the train goes at 8.21 ) Steven nicks himself with a safety razor that ca n't nick you . |
| 16 | For all the enigmas in his career , Wojciech Jaruzelski seems himself to be the prototype of what the USSR has come to trust most in the Polish military outlook . |
| 17 | BACK from a cricket tour of the West Indies , Darlington photographer Ian Wright finds himself almost overtaken by letters from gizza job Barbadians . |
| 18 | MIKHAIL Gorbachev presents himself as the saviour of socialism . |
| 19 | Raskolnikov asks himself after he has helped the Marmeladov family and been in contact with little children . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , le Carré declares himself uninterested in any such project and declines to co-operate with either biographer . |
| 21 | It is true to say that Tamburlaine sets himself very few limits , and this is shown when he makes his aspirations clear by telling his friends that he wants ‘ to become immortal like the Gods ’ . |
| 22 | More chameleon than Camille , Dustin proves himself just as natural a cougher . |
| 23 | ‘ Cantaur ’ should of course be ‘ Cantuar ’ , the Latin abbreviation by which the primate of England signs himself . |
| 24 | Elsewhere Salim separates himself from the doers and makers of the big world beyond him , of whom it is said : ‘ They 're making cars that will run on water . ’ |
| 25 | Like Pynchon , he has admitted an influence from Kerouac and the Beats , and , in his 1973 article ‘ The New Tradition ’ , Sukenick places himself within a late phase of the modernists ' ‘ Revolution of the Word ’ where verbal and structural experimentation were aimed at coping with the enigmatic nature of the world ( Federman 1975 : 42 ) . |
| 26 | You seem to have thought it out already , more so than Unesco has himself . |
| 27 | When the Reeve likens himself to an " " open-ers " " he associates himself with Nicholas in the tale just passed , and can thus be attributed with the same wry self-reflection as the Miller shows in attaching himself to John the carpenter . |
| 28 | Then a few lines further on : ‘ Stavrogin reveals himself gradually through the action without any explanations ’ . |
| 29 | Ken Pitt , David 's third manager , recalls his first flirtation with Buddhism and David 's involvement with Lindsay Kemp , a relationship that Lindsay recalls himself . |
| 30 | The prologue promises a fierce tale of ‘ orgulous princes ’ , ‘ warlike fraughage ’ , and ‘ the chance of war ’ ; but Troilus introduces himself as a character , ‘ weaker than a woman 's tear ’ . |