Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] himself [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found it obnoxious that her son permitted himself a living relationship when , like her , he should be occupying himself exclusively with a dead one . |
| 2 | He 's been making himself part of the England scene by acting as spy for some time now as already noted on the list . |
| 3 | But Clinton 's nationwide image as untrustworthy refuses to fade , while the insurgent Brown is enjoying himself hugely as the slash-and-burn anti-everybody candidate who knows he will never have to fulfil his outlandish promises . |
| 4 | I make a crack to some little thin guy in a blazer who is following us up , but we says nothing and stares in front of him like he 's forcing himself forward in a hill-climb . |
| 5 | It was not the decision to jump that was unreasonable , it was placing himself unnecessarily in a position where he might be confronted with such an emergency . |