Example sentences of "[vb pp] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grief was the climate in which he worked and he had inured himself to it . |
| 2 | A YOUNG man hanged himself after a row with his girlfriend , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 3 | A MAN hanged himself from a tree in a busy shopping centre — but no one noticed his body for at least two days . |
| 4 | Carer hanged himself from doorknob |
| 5 | To his horror he found that the young boy had hanged himself in a moment of despair . |
| 6 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,0000 ) , has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 7 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,000 ) has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 8 | In an early episode of Hill Street Blues the ‘ joke ’ of a ‘ nut ’ who thinks he is Dracula , complete with cape and thirst for blood , is caught out by the discovery that he has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 9 | The Israeli authorities claimed that the detainee , Attiyah Abdel Atti Zanin , had hanged himself in his cell . |
| 10 | It was announced on April 29 that Konstantin Smirnov-Ostashvili , the leader of the extreme nationalist Pamyat organization who had been sentenced in October 1990 to two years in a labour camp for anti-Semitism [ see p. 37789 ] , had hanged himself in prison . |
| 11 | A MAN hanged himself in his bedroom after he became depressed about a break-up with his girlfriend . |
| 12 | ' I do n't think he would have trusted himself to be married , ’ the actor remembered for me . |
| 13 | The Earl Marischal , who had supposed himself to be in charge , immediately yielded his position to Tullibardine , though retaining command of the ships which had brought them there . |
| 14 | He must have supposed himself to be using a language absolutely purged of metaphor when he wrote at the grand climax of the Discourse on method |
| 15 | The name Tolkien , he once remarked in a letter , is based on the German word for foolhardy : which is what , when he finally had his huge romance published , he must have supposed himself to be . |
| 16 | If Guy had only exchanged contracts last week , he 'd organised himself with impressive speed . |
| 17 | While her husband occupied himself with making mental notes as to his proposed victim 's physical constitution and disposition of character , Cleo amused herself with Lorimer , communicating with him by pulling delightful impish faces and fluttering her hands . |
| 18 | Christopher Gill ( Member for Ludlow and a Midlands businessman ) , as has been mentioned in Chapter 6 , has concerned himself for a long time with what were once seen to be obscure constitutional issues of subsidiarity . |
| 19 | Hewlett , author of The Queen 's Quair , brings to mind another writer who had similarly concerned himself with Mary Queen of Scots ( ‘ La Stuarda ’ ) — that is to say , Swinburne in his Mary Stuart . |
| 20 | Back in the days when he had yet concerned himself with the world . |
| 21 | Such an interpretation is not inconsistent with Katib Celebi 's brief account , particularly if it is remembered that by his time the Seyhulislam had long since been the Mufti of Istanbul and that he may therefore have concerned himself with trying to sketch the history of the office only in so far as it related to that city . |
| 22 | TV COMIC Tony Slattery has sketched himself for a charity auction — starkers . |
| 23 | The details are too uncertain for any useful discussion , but the meaning of the episode is that about 200 B.C. one Roman writer had deluded himself about his chances of importing fifth-century Athenian freedom of speech into Rome ( Cic . |
| 24 | Even a trial separation from Barnet was too much for Fry , who says that he could n't have looked himself in the mirror if he 'd refused to come back . |
| 25 | Angry Jemson suffered the embarrassment of coming on as substitute and then being substituted himself at Carrow Road . |
| 26 | In a playing career that ended the month Graeme Souness arrived at Rangers , Johnstone had excelled himself as a rumbustious centre-forward . |
| 27 | What worried him far more than the prospect of change , was the fact that he shied away from it , as a man set in his ways , and that was something he had never considered himself to be . |
| 28 | It is quite enough for me to try to grasp the way in which God has disclosed himself to us . |
| 29 | Israel knew beyond a shadow of doubt that there was one God , the Creator of the whole world , who had disclosed himself in a special way to their nation . |
| 30 | If God really has disclosed himself in a Son ; and if that Son was characterised by his possession of the Holy Spirit which he has passed on to his followers then we can not with t denying Christ maintain that God has revealed himself a much in Buddhism as in Christianity ; we can not make an amalgam of religions as if we were all honest seekers after a God who hides himself . |