Example sentences of "[vb -s] himself at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The academic who describes himself at cocktail parties with the words ‘ I am a physicist ’ or ‘ I am a historian ’ is saying something about his self-perception ( essentially a researcher , not a teacher ) ; but is also saying that he subscribes to the disciplinary code imposed on its practitioners . |
| 3 | All is filtered through Hoving 's glass , which magnifies himself at the expense of his colleagues . |
| 4 | In imitation of Velasquez , Minton shows himself at his easel reflected in the mirror behind . |
| 5 | Then he cleans the bed of needles and berries , spreads an old blanket over it , stretches himself at length , his hands folded under his head , and looks through the branches at what he can see of the blue sky . |
| 6 | John smiles apologetically at me as he arranges himself at her bedside . |
| 7 | Eventually he finds himself at 500 feet , unable to see a good field ahead , unable to remember the wind direction , and trying to select a field with very little choice . |
| 8 | Having publicly backed his wife 's move , Mr Ozal now finds himself at odds with the party he founded and led for more than six years as prime minister . |
| 9 | Unable to summon the courage to enter the cold dark of the river the man , a lawyer by profession , finds himself at odd moments thereafter , and even in the courtroom , increasingly assailed by a laugh at the back of his mind , a laugh that mocks his whole posture in the world , a laugh that progressively exposes in him what he chooses to see as a guilty pretence . |
| 10 | Niki eats up a few places and then finds himself at the back of a bunch of five cars behind Prost , who is running second . |
| 11 | Very often a student creates his first phrase and then finds himself at a loss . |
| 12 | He finds himself at odds with a ‘ world order ’ he thinks of as noisy , dirty , ruthless , cruel , narrow-minded , increasingly uniform and joyless . |
| 13 | There is a moment here when Fred Pearson 's Shotover ( looking like a raffish , siren-suited version of Shaw himself ) says of his daughter , Lady Utterword , that she is afraid that she has no heart to break : at which point Jennie Stoller 's stately , voluptuous Ariadne throws himself at his feet with a wrenching poignancy . |
| 14 | And then we get through customs , and the two of us are having a laugh because we 're safely back , and suddenly this drunk in a chauffeur 's cap throws himself at us and nearly puts out my eye with a cardboard sign and treads on my foot into the bargain . |
| 15 | He throws himself at her feet in mock subjection . |
| 16 | He 's a soldier that gives everything ; throws himself at the enemy and for once every ball , he touched finished in the back of the net . |
| 17 | Twice , in the Miller 's Tale , we hear a cock crow , as Absolon presents himself at the " " shot-wyndowe " " of Alison 's bedroom ( 3357 , 3687 ) . |
| 18 | Howard imagines himself at one with the infinite . |
| 19 | Asked whether he shared Vera 's doubts about progress since the collapse of the communist regime , Ladislav lights another cigarette and settles himself at the table : ‘ A lot of the intellectuals are unhappy that the so-called ‘ transition' ’ is taking so long . |
| 20 | He then enjoys himself at the end of the book , looking to the future from various standpoints . |
| 21 | John puts himself at risk by climbing on wardrobes ( line 13 ) . |
| 22 | John puts himself at risk by hanging from the bannister ( line 13 ) . |
| 23 | GUIL stirs himself at last . ) |
| 24 | There is , in other words , a double overlap in the ministry of Jesus , which prevents us from assuming that Father , Son and Spirit are three moulds into which the Deity pours himself at different periods in the history of salvation . |
| 25 | a person who contaminates himself at a site other than the original infected source |
| 26 | The male positions himself at the edge of the nest and fires a rapid succession of water droplets one to two inches out of the water and onto the nest itself to possibly agitate the eggs for recognition purposes . |
| 27 | ‘ The way he makes himself at home . ’ |