Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the purposes of 4 above the settlor shall not be deemed to have divested himself absolutely of any property if that property or any income therefrom or any property directly or indirectly representing the proceeds of or the income from that property or any income therefrom is or will , or may , become payable to or applicable for the benefit of the settlor or the wife or husband of the settlor in any circumstances whatsoever ( TA 1988 , s685(1) ) . |
| 2 | However , if the settlor may benefit on the occurrence of one or more of the following events he will still be deemed ( TA 1988 , s685(2) ) to have divested himself of the property : 1 . |
| 3 | Nicholson , who is being paid a handsome £5 million , is reported to have immersed himself so completely in the part that he wanders around the set mumbling the notorious Hoffa 's favourite phrases — even after the cameras have shut down for the night . |
| 4 | Against the odds , he seems to have enjoyed himself . |
| 5 | He also expressed irritation about the way Tony seemed to have let himself go in the last few months , since he had become unemployed . |
| 6 | Promising young batsman , Ian Place , seems to have booked himself a regular spot in A Division side . |
| 7 | While the rebels were in control of broadcasting facilities , former Supreme Soviet chair Sarafali Kenjayev , an ally of Nabiyev , claimed to have installed himself as President , and broadcast an appeal to non-Tajiks not to leave the republic , denouncing the " Islamic fundamentalism " of the current leadership . |
| 8 | ‘ He seems to have surrounded himself with every comfort ; but that is hardly surprising , if he has stayed here all the week for ten years . ’ |
| 9 | Steve Platt seems to have caught himself in a dialectical contradiction ( ‘ Not paying , not voting ’ , 8 May ) . |
| 10 | The pope seems to have confined himself to insisting on the prohibition of lay investiture . |
| 11 | In that time , Mr Hurd can not be said to have stirred himself . |
| 12 | Green seems to have felt himself an ‘ off-comer ’ all his life after moving to Ambleside from Manchester . |
| 13 | NIGEL WAS GLAD ON ONE LEVEL TO HAVE SAVED HIMSELF TROUBLE by finishing with Eleanor . |
| 14 | Access to Pharaoh : Ramesses II is known to have made himself available even to ordinary petitioners ( compare 5:15ff . ) . |
| 15 | Edward , who appeared to have detached himself from the proceedings , stared out of the window . |
| 16 | It was all very well for him to have told himself that he no longer minded about his illegitimacy . |
| 17 | For she was far from being the ruthlessly manipulative monster that Jake appeared to have convinced himself she was . |
| 18 | But he had small taste for the bagging beer and wished to have bought himself a wine . |
| 19 | He was starting to appear distinctly shopworn , Lucy noted ; he seemed to have bought himself a new shirt , but a dip-through in a hotel washbasin did n't exactly make for the best possible finish . |
| 20 | Pumlumon seemed to have got himself quite well into the enchantment now ; he was looking much less worried than he had looked ten minutes earlier . |
| 21 | Council leader Richard Short said : ‘ He did a good job for us when he was town crier and he just seems to have got himself dreadfully mixed up . |
| 22 | Blackadder felt that he had somehow betrayed Randolph Henry Ash , though he might more justly have been thought to have betrayed himself ; his grandfather , or possibly Dr Leavis . |
| 23 | This foolish lad was said to have gorged himself on an entire goose one Christmas Eve and , upon staggering home , was robbed and murdered . |
| 24 | The attempt on his life , in which he is understood to have injected himself with a drug overdose , was his third since his arrest . |
| 25 | Oh , my word , she thought , as , though he favoured her with a fond look , the cool calculating gleam in Naylor 's eyes showed he was n't too impressed to have landed himself such a devoted fiancée . |
| 26 | Otto 's brother-in-law King Athelstan appears to have called himself by a variety of high sounding titles , emperor ( if any of the documents are genuine ) and basileus , the Greek word for king and part of the official title of the Byzantine emperor ( though it is not clear whether the English realized this ) . |
| 27 | Under the rules he was deemed to have disqualified himself . |
| 28 | He is reported to have invited himself to lunch with the Mayor of Bodmin , but firstly asked his worship for a gallows to be erected for a hanging . |
| 29 | Thankfully he seemed to have recovered himself , she noted . |
| 30 | In fact , he seems to have contented himself with only forty new suits per annum and an unlimited supply of underwear and shirts . |