Example sentences of "himself for his " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a certain grudging margin , to be sure , about all that Mr Eliot writes — as if he were compensating himself for his limitations by a peevish assumption of superiority . |
| 2 | The final task he set himself for his Presidency , which was due to end next year , was to weed out of the Regatta calendar all the rowing courses which could be made unfair by the wind . |
| 3 | And then , raging at himself for his mistake , he would not give the ship up . |
| 4 | ‘ Mark you , Southey ! — I will do my Duty , ’ he wrote from London five days later , as he steeled himself for his promised return to Bristol and the renewal of his relationship with Sara . |
| 5 | He finally went to bed , cursing himself for his own sentimentality , certain the feeling was due to tiredness and jet-lag , no more . |
| 6 | But even as he braced himself for the end , Robin took a remarkable last photograph of himself for his family . |
| 7 | Then he smiled , laughed at himself for his arrogance and vanity . |
| 8 | He cursed himself for his carelessness , and dug his heels back to speed the wear mare . |
| 9 | So Raymond of St Gilles , after he had claimed the Rouergue in 1079 , prepared himself for his attempt to oust his brother as count of Toulouse , in a ceremony at the shrine of St Robert at La Chaise-Dieu : |
| 10 | The contrast between the two men of near-identical appearance is shown in a less formal , more novelistic manner in the character of the King , depicted in The Prisoner of Zenda as a weak , pleasure-loving young man trying to equip himself for his destiny and in Rupert of Hentzau as a man ill in body , weaned by matters of state , gradually coming to resent his obligations to the man whose courage and energy have twice saved his position for him and burdened by jealous suspicions of his wife 's fidelity . |
| 11 | I doubted it because whatever the efficacy of Dr Gyggle 's treatment and however convincing his explanation of how a lonely and fucked-up boy built up a delusion both to compensate for the lack of a father and punish himself for his own Oedipal crime , I still could n't convince myself that I was entirely rid of my mage . |
| 12 | Denis cursed to himself for his indiscretion . |
| 13 | Early that summer the new curate took up his duties , and Father McGiff at last was able to sit at his desk of an evening and compose himself for his planned period of meditation . |
| 14 | Evening after evening Father McGiff sat at his desk , ashamed of his indulgence , upbraiding himself for his inability to drag his eyes away from the window which , like some perverse crystal ball , conjured up only ghosts of the past instead of promises of the future . |
| 15 | A fiery orator , and self-styled leader of the persecuted and oppressed , consumed with a reckless urge to sacrifice himself for his ideals . |
| 16 | He rebuked himself for his stupidity . |
| 17 | Sacrificing himself for his daughter … ’ |
| 18 | Ted puffed energetically at his , uncertain yet whether to congratulate himself on being parked up here with this very attractive young girl , or to commiserate with himself for his failure to make more than token progress . |
| 19 | Auguste smiled weakly , than laughed at himself for his vanity . |
| 20 | On Sunday 18 April , Dave was preparing himself for his first ever parachute jump to raise money for charity [ and to overcome his own fear of heights and aeroplanes ] when he heard that the jump had been cancelled due to bad weather . |
| 21 | I could see he was bracing himself for his act . |
| 22 | He meticulously prepared himself for his first meeting . |
| 23 | Punctuality was by way of being an obsession — although once he missed a recording session with Barry Took altogether and all but flayed himself for his lack of professionalism . |
| 24 | The solicitor is entitled to retain documents prepared by himself for his own benefit and for which no charge is made to the client and documents sent by the client to the solicitor the property in which is intended to pass to the solicitor ( eg letters from the client to the solicitor ) . |
| 25 | He was not pleased with himself for his behaviour , but it worked . |
| 26 | Of course he complained when he entered political writing instead of preparing himself for his poem . |