Example sentences of "[v-ing] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Hague with Sien he had given himself over to light , like a Myshkin who was all love , meek as a lamb , becoming the woman 's servant and in this roundabout fashion returning himself to infancy . |
| 2 | In choosing a kasabat kadilik , then , a student was in effect shutting himself off from the high offices of state and , provided that he intended to stay within the learned profession , dooming himself to a lifetime of service in the kasabat kadiliks unless he could somehow get back into the medrese stream . |
| 3 | ‘ And my name 's Ashley Fleming , ’ Ashley said , fearful that Simon might start patting himself on the back yet again . |
| 4 | ‘ When a dealing is had between a seller like Mr. Lewis and a person who is actually there present before him , then the presumption in law is that there is a contract , even though there is a fraudulent impersonation by the buyer representing himself as a different man than he is . |
| 5 | Surely he must have realised that he was pitting himself against a concern of considerable strength . |
| 6 | ‘ as if he only happens to be with us by accident and could just as easily be amusing himself at some other job elsewhere . ’ |
| 7 | He 's amusing himself at a dull time of year , and being here without his womenfolk , but he 's as adroit at calming the storm as he is at raising it . |
| 8 | Rune Christensen was amusing himself at her expense . |
| 9 | So , he had been winding her up about their sharing the same bed , amusing himself at her expense ! |
| 10 | He was paving the way to amusing himself with me in the future when Mme Chaillot was out of town . |
| 11 | He 'd just been amusing himself with a new challenge , the new blonde female who 'd temporarily appeared in his life … |
| 12 | He is obviously intent upon amusing himself with two women . |
| 13 | If he was merely bent on amusing himself with his prisoner , did it matter who heard ? |
| 14 | Anchoring himself to a piton , he cut the climbing rope and started to unravel its strands , working with the nearly frozen fingers of one hand . |
| 15 | ‘ If man can not create anything or move anybody , if he can not break out of the prison of his total narcissism and isolation , he can escape the unbearable sense of vital impotence and nothingness only by affirming himself in the act of destruction of the life that he is unable to create . |
| 16 | Jesus releases us from this addiction by revealing himself as the willing servant , humbled to the point of death , submitting his will to the will of God . |
| 17 | After these , Dr Rogers took the assembled company completely by surprise by peeling off his false beard and revealing himself as Alan Abel , hoaxer extraordinary . |
| 18 | We end up with the Shakespeare we knew savaged and refashioned in the Laureate 's own image with ‘ an almost pathological psychic alienation from the culture within which his plays triumphed ’ : the Blackamoor , the naked , essential man , hovelled with swine , revealing himself to Lear and to Timon in their extremity . |
| 19 | He beamed at her , revealing himself to be more drunk than Lydia had first supposed . |
| 20 | He is a man of action , revealing himself by deeds . |
| 21 | It occurred to Cassie that he was keeping himself under an unnatural control , like a muzzled animal . |
| 22 | These past three years he had grown sullen and morose , keeping himself at a distance , always watching her , silently blaming her for Maisie 's tragic death . |
| 23 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 24 | Trent had already warned his charter party back to the catamaran , keeping himself between them and the big fish . |
| 25 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |
| 26 | With no patron , and numbering himself among men of ‘ retired lives , and small-grown fortunes ’ , his progress in the church was painfully slow , and he probably remained at Duxford until 1647 . |
| 27 | Pressing himself against the last wagon he peered around the side for any sign of the guards . |
| 28 | He swallowed hard and ran to the back door , pressing himself against the wall beside it . |
| 29 | Pressing himself against the wall he looked down at the body . |
| 30 | Bent almost double , he darted towards the kitchen , pressing himself against the wall . |