Example sentences of "[vb -s] himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This acquisition of competence can be seen as one way the worker defends himself against the control exercised over him by management . |
| 2 | The project has not been immune from some of the criticism levelled at the 400 museum rebuilding or building projects underway since the State launched its new museum policy in 1981 , and the mayor of Nîmes defends himself against accusations of megalomania by saying , ‘ We were lagging culturally . |
| 3 | Throughout it all , he keenly defends himself against the propaganda with which the minders assigned to foreign journalists bombard him . |
| 4 | She exacerbates all his old anxieties and feelings of ambivalence towards ‘ mothers ’ , and because he can not cope , he defends himself by ignoring her as far as possible . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm looking for a partner for this new act , the Double-Take Brothers , ’ he explains as he busies himself with tea-bags and mugs of boiling water in the back offices of Hat Trick , the Soho production company responsible for putting together the series . |
| 6 | The male busies himself with placing the eggs in a nest , and when this is complete , the ritual can begin again . |
| 7 | Turnbull busies himself with his clipboard as his reply is translated . |
| 8 | We must put all our energies into the preparation for Belle Ile while Schellenberg busies himself with the Steiner affair . ’ |
| 9 | He manifests himself to each of us uniquely . ’ |
| 10 | who lives himself through you . |
| 11 | He snaps and frets and worries himself into a frenzy . |
| 12 | As in this passage , Genet not only disguises himself in terms of the law , but internalizes the disguise . |
| 13 | fairy-tale in which the wolf kills and eats the grandmother of a little girl called Little Red Riding Hood , then gets into her bed and disguises himself in her clothes to trap the child . |
| 14 | A problem arises when a person makes a mistake about the circumstances by which he is confronted and supposes himself to be under attack when in truth he is not . |
| 15 | I was particularly taken by Patricia Routledge , unmistakeable even looking through a letter box , and by Lionel Jeffries for his affecting rendition of : The troops are ready to mutiny , The colonel is missing or dead , When up steps a bold , young lieutenant And places himself at the head . |
| 16 | The court held that where a person places himself in danger and it is foreseeable that another person may attempt a rescue , the rescued person owes a duty of care to the rescuer . |
| 17 | This case supports the view expressed in Baker v Hopkins that a person who places himself in danger may owe a duty of care to a rescuer . |
| 18 | Like Pynchon , he has admitted an influence from Kerouac and the Beats , and , in his 1973 article ‘ The New Tradition ’ , Sukenick places himself within a late phase of the modernists ' ‘ Revolution of the Word ’ where verbal and structural experimentation were aimed at coping with the enigmatic nature of the world ( Federman 1975 : 42 ) . |
| 19 | The male places himself behind the female and pecks at her cloaca . |
| 20 | It was painful , beautiful and obscure , a not uncommon state of affairs when the creator also directs , gives a running commentary on the action and writes himself into the story at the end . |
| 21 | As the Doctrine Commission puts it , ‘ He exposes Himself to being acted upon and , in that sense , being compelled to change . ’ |
| 22 | But later in life Augustine declared : ‘ He therefore who refuses to obey the imperial laws , when made against the truth of God acquires a great reward , he who refuses to obey when they are made for the support of the divine truth exposes himself to most grievous punishment . ’ |
| 23 | Of course , this does n't mean that if a man exposes himself to you , you must be repressing that urge within yourself . |
| 24 | In terms of laws governing dress , the nude bather on a public beach , the ‘ streaker ’ at a sporting event and the ‘ flasher ’ who exposes himself to an unsuspecting individual are subject to official punishments of varying severity . |
| 25 | Thus , the chronic 20 cigarette a day smoker exposes himself to regular falls in gastric secretion associated with each cigarette smoked . |
| 26 | Columbus consoles himself with possibilities . |
| 27 | Disappointed , he returns to his rooms and consoles himself by looking through his collection of photographs of ten boys he has loved . |
| 28 | As a general rule Green in his Guide recommends the skies be a quarter blue and three quarters grey , and he holds himself to this idea most strictly . |
| 29 | he holds himself on the sofa |
| 30 | Rufus holds himself within head-butting distance , and I guess he 's daring the man to spit in his face or something . |