Example sentences of "[be] [verb] himself [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll be cheering himself up in one or the other place by now without a backward glance . |
| 2 | IAN RUSH is gearing himself up for ‘ the best year of my life . ’ |
| 3 | Why should I wish the lad any worse harm than he 's let himself in for already ? ’ |
| 4 | Thistle 's early season promise has evaporated , and debutant Julian Broddle must be wondering what he 's let himself in for . |
| 5 | These pictures , rarely cordial , have become more and more baleful : it is as if he is holding himself back from physical assault on a reader supposed to be a trendy and a lefty , which is , indeed , what many of his readers have always been . |
| 6 | ‘ The doctor 's locked himself up in his study , sir . ’ |
| 7 | Kept Ireland out of the war , but that does n't mean he 's putting himself out for your people . |
| 8 | He 's a simple manic-depressive , as Millie could evidently see , and he 's talking himself up like a balloon from the safe plains of the depression into the thin , high air of the mania . |
| 9 | He 's working himself up to walking into the Admiralty and telling them he 's getting messages in his head from Russian submarines . |
| 10 | If Mick Jagger is feeling himself out on stage in tight clothing , I 'm sure he comes under attack in some way , er … |
| 11 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 12 | Of course , the only way out of his troubles would be to confess to someone that he was passing himself off as a Muslim for the purposes of financial gain . |
| 13 | Hands was pulling himself up among the sails now , the knife between his teeth . |
| 14 | He was sending himself up to a degree , but it does n't matter . |
| 15 | WHILE Nick Faldo was stirring himself back to life again in the Freeport-McMoran Classic with a second round of 69 , Sandy Lyle was left contemplating what he felt was likely to be another missed cut in his final preparation for next week 's Masters . |
| 16 | Make borrowing fair and honest ; bring bargaining between borrower and lender out into the open , with the borrower being given the opportunity to understand precisely what he was letting himself in for , and in that knowledge to make his choice . |
| 17 | This thing he was putting himself in for was not ordinary athletics , but a curious hybrid of a sport which , it seemed to Jazz now , was so peculiarly rooted in the old British tradition that anyone pretending to come into it wearing a bloody turban was going to stick out like a clown in a gathering of clerics . |
| 18 | But Nick was working himself up into one of his states , and she had to harden her heart . |
| 19 | King Vidor , who directed him in Man Without a Star in 1955 , said , ‘ I felt throughout the filming that Kirk was working himself up to being a director . |
| 20 | It was almost as if he was working himself up to making a confession . |