Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a feeling that Maidstone mentioned them to vindicate himself in the eyes of others . |
| 2 | ‘ An ’ I told himself to empty it this morning' , ’ muttered Nessie as she made her way out . |
| 3 | Damian considered her too inexperienced sexually to be able to fulfil that longing of his to express himself fully through the body . |
| 4 | He fell to thinking of the shape in the well-pit , and then dropped into a drowsy half-dream , in which El-ahrairah said that it was all a trick of his to disguise himself as Poison-tree and put the stones in the wall , to engage Strawberry 's attention while he himself was getting acquainted with Nildro-hain . |
| 5 | You know I took himself off to the Park the other day , the the tiny one you know ! and fortunately I was n't in charge , his father was in charge of them . |
| 6 | It will be interesting to know how the wha how the minister proposes to define er materials er material significance , er who will issue guidance on that point er will it be the professional associations , is it something that the government is going to turn it 's mind to and what is , what does it actually mean er for example if the auditor was looking at the Maxwell accounts er what what is a matter of material er er er significance , er for example would it be materially significant that just about every one er er who you spoke to at the time thought that Maxwell was a crook although interestingly that was n't er apparently the view of the regulator or that are directly responsible for these matters , er but even before Maxwell was exposed for the the crook that he was er many , many people knew from him that his conduct , er the way his conducted himself , the D T I itself of course had said that he was a a a manifestly unsuitable person er to be in charge of a company . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's under pressure , he wants out , a safe future — secure , you know himself and the woman — Carla — that 's all he can see . |
| 8 | There were ways of bringing memories to the surface and he must use them to protect himself . |
| 9 | Each one of them saw himself as El-ahrairah , who could be impudent to Frith and get away with it . |
| 10 | He did n't use them to force himself on me . |
| 11 | It would be possible to resolve the pronoun here by reasoning that a dog biting a vet is much more likely than a vet biting a dog ( or , indeed , of either of them biting himself ) . |
| 12 | Furthermore , modern medical training may well encourage him to see himself as a scientist applying particular skills to solve a problem , rather than as dealing with people . |
| 13 | It 's just that this other woman to whom he comes fresh enables him to see himself in a different , more exciting and rejuvenating light . |
| 14 | ‘ Get the good word to him if you so please , ’ he said amiably , ‘ and let him make himself scarce . |
| 15 | His dog-leg patrimony ( his uncle was Lord Chelmsford ) has enabled him to support himself and to help some others . |
| 16 | Christina decided he looked happy enough and left him to enjoy himself . |
| 17 | After his retirement , I might try to persuade him to enjoy himself by accompanying me to whatever seaside resort the Conservative party attends for its conference next October — I will ensure his safety of passage into the hall — so that he can see how few pinstripe suits there are , let alone the mythical hats of which he spoke . |
| 18 | He smiled and hurried to the escalator , scuttling up the moving stairway towards street level , finally emerging into the ticket hall ; As he passed through he cast one last glance behind him to assure himself he was free of pursuers . |
| 19 | She immediately discounted that idea , realising that , had Lubor known , then he obviously would n't have asked her to dine himself . |
| 20 | The purpose had fulfilled him , allowed him to find himself . |
| 21 | Some of the officers kept on to him to pull himself together and that sort of thing . |
| 22 | His wife has told him to pull himself together . |
| 23 | Who not just let him enjoy himself ? " |
| 24 | So I say to him oh Adam shush , she says oh leave him alone , let him enjoy himself . |
| 25 | And the Quixote himself sounds too light , and lacks that dominating nobility of expression that allows him to impose himself suddenly on a scene hitherto occupied almost exclusively by the Boy and the orchestra . |
| 26 | Charity with enough resilience to laugh , thought it unlikely that Charles would make a particularly docile prisoner and Clarissa said she 'd write and tell him to behave himself . |
| 27 | I made sure Frankie washed himself and warned him to behave himself as well . |
| 28 | KEVIN Keegan ( right ) went into quarantine yesterday , but it was more than a niggling flu bug which persuaded him to lock himself away from his Newcastle players before the FA Cup fifth round tie at Blackburn . |
| 29 | But he simply side-stepped her to pour himself a glass of wine . |
| 30 | You feel him imagining himself as the last rock of culture and civilization being swept over by a wave of barbarism and Jews ( communism and commercialism ) , the saviour of more than the Constitution , the saviour of all that has been culture , the snob of the West . |