Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] himself " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was an exciting time , in retrospect a brief golden age between the end of colonial rule and the point when the repressiveness of the Kanu regime grew so blatant that disillusion , new East African writer would emerge , following in the footsteps of my already famous colleague , who then called himself James Ngugi . |
| 32 | Acads ' back play could have been more direct , but at least they contributed two cracking tries in the first half , the first by Simon Burns , with help from Ford Swanson , who then helped himself to five points as he finished of a Rowen Shepherd break . |
| 33 | At last a story was circulated by a sailor , George Hassel , who swore a statement before the Mayor of Liverpool that he had met , in the town of Beverley , Massachusetts , a youth known as Jeffrey , who otherwise styled himself ‘ The Governor of Sombrero ’ . |
| 34 | Cipollini , who recently declared himself to be the fastest finisher in the world , crossed the line in second place but with both arms in the air in protest over Abdoujaparov 's jersey-pull , which , say the race referees , occurred twice in the last half-mile . |
| 35 | Terry Lewis was a voyeur , an observer of life who never committed himself to becoming part of it . |
| 36 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
| 37 | Jack for one never forgave himself for encouraging the venture in the first place . |
| 38 | He slowly picked himself up . |
| 39 | Now it belonged to Frankie , and while he secretly warmed himself in its folds he spared little thought for the comfort of its previous owner . |
| 40 | He grimly reminded himself that his vow of celibacy had certain consolations . |
| 41 | He eventually established himself as a regular first team player for the Parkhead club before he was transferred to Manchester United in 1973 . |
| 42 | When , after five or six miles [ 8–10 km ] , his men reached another defile , between Loch Lochy and a steeply sloping mountain to the east , they found the Highlanders had arrived before them , and after a brisk action , in which he eventually found himself hemmed in on three sides , Scott , himself wounded , and with two men dead , accepted terms of surrender . |
| 43 | Their horses were fresher , and gradually closed on Sharpe who , to spare the mare 's strength , tried to avoid the worst hills , but he eventually found himself trapped in a long valley and was forced to put the mare at a steep grass slope which led to a bare skyline . |
| 44 | When he eventually introduced himself , she politely told him that she would rather pay her own bill and had enough money to do so . |
| 45 | He would not talk about it , and you knew not to ask more , but you realised that it must have been the time in his life when he most resembled himself . |
| 46 | After the surgery , told to lose 50 pounds , he duly transformed himself into a jogging optimist . |
| 47 | I believe that Stalin was paranoid about other people in the Soviet Union rising up and overthrowing him , so by bumping off Kirov and blaming on them , he effectively gave himself a licence to go out and kill all other them as revenge . |
| 48 | Industrial relations , as the subject today would be described , was an area in which he instinctively felt himself at home . |
| 49 | Laura wondered in a daze as he swiftly divested himself of his own clothing , and then , in the grip of a feverish , shuddering excitement , she responded as his lovemaking became more pressing and urgent . |
| 50 | He swiftly chided himself for such thoughts ; he 'd been taught to shun physical contact , even on a platonic level . |
| 51 | He swiftly established himself as a dominant influence in New Zealand station architecture and produced many remarkable buildings . |
| 52 | 20–3–1877 Duncan McLugash , Elder , confessed " that having been led to use a little whisky for relieving asthmatic tightening of the chest , he regrets that he incautiously allowed himself to go to excess , whereby he was overcome by it . " |
| 53 | And then luckily , it suddenly went really quiet and he obviously wore himself out and like was having a sleep . |
| 54 | No trick , as he gleefully recounted himself was too low or devious to ensure the required result , though he might boast of being the " King of the Bristol Channel " . |
| 55 | Not bathing for two days was no great inconvenience when he only had himself for company ; not shaving suited him fine when there was no woman to complain of beard burns . |
| 56 | He was still trying to identify it when he suddenly felt himself scooped from the ground and hoisted into the air in a wide arc . |
| 57 | From being just another kid with nits in his head , the smallest in his class and the only one in the whole school whose skin was a swarthy brown , he suddenly found himself the most popular boy around . |
| 58 | Then , in the middle of the election campaign , he suddenly found himself among the accused . |
| 59 | After dominating for four rounds , he suddenly found himself up against it when he shipped a series of right hand shots in the final two sessions . |
| 60 | The second time he came round , he suddenly pulled himself up into a sitting position . |