Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason Jake had had a change of heart was because he had finally realised for himself that Janice would not make a good mother for Kirsty , and that Shiona , on the other hand , would . |
| 2 | The shrugger does n't care whether he lives or dies — and the designer duel arranged for himself by this divided and indifferent man is a form of Russian roulette . |
| 3 | Now at about the time that that letter was written on the twenty second of October er Mr had the meeting at the National Westminster Bank that had been arranged between himself and a Mrs and it is clear from er this meeting that the bank would no longer er , given that the Frinton property was not to be offered as security , prepared to offer the sum , the substantial sums that they had originally agreed to do and they were now only prepared to offer very much smaller sums and the plaintiff 's case is that the only way that they were going to be able to proceed to complete on this matter was er by selling their homes , their family home at and it is the plaintiff 's case , certainly in relation to er the losses that they have sustained as a result of the breach of contract , alleged in this case , that er if they had not been forced to go ahead to complete on this deal they would not have been required to sell their family home . |
| 4 | Those lips seemed to phrase words intended for himself alone , kissing these words into the soft matter of his brain : ’ Though you are cast into the ultimate heat sink , you hover indestructibly . |
| 5 | Concerned about his influence , and afraid to beard the sultan himself , " the vezir Mahmud Pasa " consulted Fahreddin Acemi who , having heard for himself the Hurufi 's heretical words , denounced him in Mehmed II's presence . |
| 6 | This , remember , is W. H. Auden , whom for many years some people in England have regarded as himself too anxious not to bore , too anxious always to amuse . |
| 7 | It was a home that the great prophet of Gothic designed for himself and his family , and today it is still as strange and startling as it was when he built it around 1835 . |
| 8 | At present , the most plausible interpretation is probably that these forts were centres of royal power intended to enable Harald to control the areas which the Jelling rune stone suggests he had won for himself . |
| 9 | Then Tom , who worked for the Bryant and May match firm , will splash out on a greenhouse and a garden shed for himself . |
| 10 | In fact , no player received the required three votes to qualify and in the players ' ‘ Player-of-the-Year ’ award each player voted for himself . |
| 11 | If he 'd looked after himself , not had a heart attack , he 'd still be around . |
| 12 | He was a good player but I but I think he 's always looked after himself , I mean he 's he 's |
| 13 | Chen took a deep breath then looked about him at the banks of monitors that filled every wall of the huge , hexagonal room , impressed despite himself . |
| 14 | Always a bit of a loner , Basil here found an environment of people committed like himself . |
| 15 | I expected him to answer her back — there was such a passion in his music , he did n't sound like himself at all , any more than he had looked like himself yesterday — but he just struck the wires of his guitar into a discord and after that there was a beaten silence , and Doris stamped off downstairs again , talking all the way about her poor legs and her poor head . |
| 16 | Tom Reynolds was utterly captivated with himself . |
| 17 | What he most disliked in Minter — a suspicious temperament channelled into a grudge against the world — was what he most disliked in himself . |
| 18 | Even Paul , immersed in himself as usual , could not fail to notice Dinah 's red eyes and white cheeks . |
| 19 | Peter Chapple-Hyam , his trainer , says that Rodrigo de Triano , winner of the Middle Park Stakes , has only really come to himself this week . |
| 20 | And yet he had come to himself unaided , clambered to his feet without even the support of a fence to lean on , and made his way some two hundred yards towards the single light of the curator 's open door . |
| 21 | curled on himself like a wild creature , |
| 22 | The other side of the story evolves around the person not as the object of demands imposed from the outside , but as the creator of such demands addressed to himself . |
| 23 | Turning to leave he saw a jiffy-bag of formidable bulk addressed to himself in Sixsmith 's tremulous hand . |
| 24 | Piggy believed that he had overcome his disabilities and looked at himself in a very different way from the other boys . |
| 25 | Outstanding among these are 202 coloured drawings collected by John Talman in Italy between 1709 and 1717 and added to the great collection of architectural and ornament drawings amassed by himself and his father William , the Comptroller of the King 's Works . |
| 26 | A bank agreed to increase this to £135,000 , reducing to £120,000 after three weeks , but it required the security of a second charge on the shareholder 's matrimonial home , which was jointly owned by himself and his wife . |
| 27 | Circumstantial evidence could take the form of showing the defendant wished to cover up an offence committed by himself , such as driving over the prescribed limit , being involved in an accident and then , as mentioned ( C ) 2 ante alleging that someone else was driving at the time of the accident . |
| 28 | Hale justified the marital rape exemption in the following terms : ‘ The husband can not be guilty of rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife , for by their mutual matrimonial consent and contract the wife has given up herself in this kind unto her husband , which she can not retract . ’ |
| 29 | At some time , surely , Lepine must have stopped and looked around himself : at the dreary , lumpen Ecole Polytechnique , and the other squat and block-like faculty buildings of sandy yellow brick , with the high tower of the University pavilion rising in their midst . |
| 30 | I was saying , oh yeah erm Shrimpy like , we , me and Scott were playing snooker and I , I came in to see if like , either of you , anyone else wanted to play doubles and like , Swimp , Shrimpy was just sat by himself in the middle of the floor , cross-legged just sat there like a little pixie or something ! |