Example sentences of "[v-ing] himself [adv] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let go then of every dignity but the dignity of defiance , and fought like a wild-cat , lashing and struggling and biting , wearing himself out uselessly in an effort that could gain him nothing . |
| 2 | Father seems to be treating himself well enough without help from him . " |
| 3 | It is likely , therefore , that Aethelred was involving himself quite extensively in the affairs of the Hwicce across these years , being personally associated , for example , if the relevant document has an authentic base , with the founding of the monastery of St Peter , Gloucester , in 681 ( CS 60 : S 70 ) . |
| 4 | Mountfield , prising himself away momentarily from the Tipton Terror , met the ball at the far post to score the kind of goal that was his trademark at Everton . |
| 5 | It seems to me , not only that this does not appear , but that the contrary appears ; for the plaintiff before the letter had already bound himself to marry , by placing himself not only under a moral , but under a legal , obligation to marry , and the testator knew it . |
| 6 | His preparing himself so keenly for a new and final phase of the war , and then not seeing even the beginning of it , was the final irony . |
| 7 | At last Fernando moved , rolling himself slightly away from her to remove strands of her long hair from his jacket and smoothing them back where they belonged , down the side of her face . |
| 8 | This was a solidly practical view of science , with Wolff setting himself clearly apart from researchers who interpret their role as increasing the store house of knowledge . |