Example sentences of "himself [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gathered himself for a giant leap and SPRONG ! landed right in the middle of the sleeping ducks . |
| 2 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 3 | Well , the angel Gabriel disguised himself as a poor beggar and walked through the forest until he came to this pear tree . |
| 4 | Of these Tom Cruise established himself as a powerful actor and major star in Rainman ( 1989 ) and Born on the Fourth of July ( 1990 ) . |
| 5 | He still described himself as a private tutor and the purpose of his journey abroad as ‘ holiday touring ’ . |
| 6 | The schoolboy tight-head fancied himself as a hard man and was intent on working Elliot who , in fact , was so immensely strong that the lad can have been no more than the most minor of irritants . |
| 7 | Remembering my conversations with him at the end of 1975 and the beginning of 1976 , it was clear that he wanted fresh fields to conquer , that he thought he had more than proved himself as a racing driver and that he thought he could , with no great difficulty , follow a Bruce McLaren , for instance , and make his own way in cars of his own . |
| 8 | Or how about U.S. lock and Air Force captain Kevin Swords , who established himself as a world-class player and leader at the 1991 World Cup , but is still totally ignored in the U.S. outside the rugby community ? |
| 9 | One man identified himself as a jobbing builder and chatted to the woman , who was in her seventies , while another searched the house in Brougham Street , Darlington , on Tuesday . |
| 10 | One of the greatest gifts known to man is the one he can give himself of a joyous heart and it can come from no one else , for it comes from the springs of a man 's own spirit . |
| 11 | But his self-education had been very thorough , so that he turned himself into a good Latinist and a good Grecian also , as Pound in Confucius to Cummins acknowledged . |
| 12 | Alex worked himself into a crimson-faced rage and bit the curled corner of the carpet , whereupon Marie picked him up bodily and carried him out of the room . |
| 13 | In addition , the war years had turned de Gaulle himself into a national leader and given him a unique symbolic identity , and yet had left him an inexperienced politician without an organized or cohesive following . |
| 14 | He had got himself into a difficult position and had escaped with more luck than dignity . |
| 15 | Frankie climbed into bed , curled himself into a tight ball and pulled the covers up over his head . |
| 16 | The mandarin excused himself with a nervous smile and moved quickly away across the antechamber to talk with a group of French officials . |
| 17 | He hoisted himself onto a high stool and wedged his stout thighs beneath the rail of the counter . |
| 18 | Mr Chittenden had already doused himself in a flammable liquid and set himself alight . |
| 19 | Mr Chittenden had already doused himself in a flammable liquid and set himself alight . |
| 20 | As they were doing so , Mr Chittenden had already doused himself in a flammable liquid and set himself alight . |
| 21 | Googol talked to himself in a muffled manner or merely droned — hard to say which — whenever he was in space . |
| 22 | The elderly admirer is Nestor himself in a false beard and Irma , who is clearly short sighted as well as dim and really nice , hardly notices the difference . |
| 23 | He prides himself on a forthright nature and says he has asked more questions than any other MP in the House . |
| 24 | At one point Blake found himself on a main street and saw two policemen outside a baker 's shop . |
| 25 | After designing an architect 's dream , he will then have to try and make it functional , having committed himself to a particular shape and size . |
| 26 | An order may require the child to comply with any directions given by the supervisor : ( i ) to live at a specified place or places for certain periods of time ; ( ii ) to present himself to a specified person or persons at times and places as specified ; ( iii ) to participate in specified activities at certain times ( para 2 ) . |
| 27 | He opened the freezer and helped himself to a cold beer and the last of the chicken drumsticks from the packet he had bought earlier in the week . |