Example sentences of "[verb] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grief was the climate in which he worked and he had inured himself to it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In his autobiography Prokofiev admitted that he was ‘ not used to denying himself anything ’ , and he was not about to see a promising career inconvenienced by the Russian Revolution . |
| 4 | And if that child is sensitive and caring and does not wish to hurt or disappoint his parents , perhaps he may even enter the medical profession and spend years doing something he does not really want to do while denying himself the opportunity of fulfilling his life in the way he would have chosen . |
| 5 | He fixed his eyes on the prophecy with fresh deliberation , denying himself the comfort of blinking to be certain he missed nothing . |
| 6 | Duncan 's account is , in fact , a not unsympathetic one of Eliot punishing himself , denying himself the small pleasures or luxuries which someone of his wealth and distinction could have enjoyed : " He always took his wine flavoured with guilt " . |
| 7 | Then his face contorted in pain , and she knew instinctively with infinite relief that it was the face of a man reluctantly denying himself the sexual release he patently craved by wielding a superhuman control . |
| 8 | With a deep , shaky breath he thrust them apart , and swept his eyes the length of her body , with the eyes of a starving man denying himself food . |
| 9 | Only once had he let himself begrudge it , only once , that night , and never since , for he knew it was his duty and his right to stay at home with her . |
| 10 | The same report , reversing the earlier legend excusing the Führer because he was being kept in the dark by his underlings in the Party , added : ‘ Even the Führer has lost much sympathy among the people because he has apparently let himself be taken in by his Party people and does not seem to notice what things are like in the State today . ’ |
| 11 | He also expressed irritation about the way Tony seemed to have let himself go in the last few months , since he had become unemployed . |
| 12 | As Desmond Haynes and Philip Simmons added 99 at better than a run a minute with a volley of boundaries , he must have wondered what he had let himself in for . |
| 13 | Apparently his ‘ lover ’ , the erstwhile Angel of Charles , Miss Farrah Fawcett , has confided in a ‘ pal ’ : ‘ I 'm ashamed of the way he 's let himself go . |
| 14 | In all his plans , he had never let himself contemplate an outcome as vicious as that . |
| 15 | He had let himself fall in with her will , and had not seen that she had no will , but was calling , alone , for a friend . |
| 16 | The social worker who took on the referral found him somewhat embarrassed by his present circumstances , and the degree to which he had let himself go . |
| 17 | He has let himself down badly . |
| 18 | But having let himself sink as far as he could go , he began to rise and with such gathering force and fury that he not only routed all who had disbelieved in him , he left even the believers agape . |
| 19 | He knew what he had let himself in for and he was glad . |
| 20 | Hutton took a drop in salary to join Durham , and he wondered what he had let himself in for when , after a battering from Franklyn Stephenson , he had to leave the field to be sick . |
| 21 | Peach alone was in the house , having let himself in through the cat flap Stephen had fixed into the lower panel of the back door . |
| 22 | Why should I wish the lad any worse harm than he 's let himself in for already ? ’ |
| 23 | The refectory had been built when there was money around for building and the architect had let himself go with walls of glass and a high curving ceiling panelled in pastel colours . |
| 24 | Ashamed of wanting her , ashamed of having let himself start their affair , Luke was no happier with it than she was . |
| 25 | He was at his best when reacting promptly and powerfully to every threat , how had he let himself be hemmed in thus by forms and processes and the operations of incompetent deputies ? |
| 26 | He was a hard , cold , cynical man who had let himself be hurt by a woman . |
| 27 | Thistle 's early season promise has evaporated , and debutant Julian Broddle must be wondering what he 's let himself in for . |
| 28 | He was a Valium addict who would try anything to obtain a supply of the drug — including pretending to overdose himself so he would be referred to psychiatry . |
| 29 | He wanted to get out of the old activist scene and transform himself into a modern , successful businessman . |
| 30 | ‘ It means ‘ he ground himself into me ’ , as it says in the book I bought at the airport . ’ |