Example sentences of "[v-ing] himself [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her neighbour , after helping himself well to leg of mutton as the vast dish had at last come round to him , said ( confirming her ) , ‘ Our guest of honour is a real femme du monde . ’ |
| 2 | Barber had an exceptional flair for expressing himself fluently in crystal clear prose . |
| 3 | Crucifixion was death by suffocation : the prisoner alternated between pushing himself upright in order to breathe and sagging back to rest and relieve the pain . |
| 4 | It was partly because he got a weird buzz out of scaring himself half to death , and partly because he felt it was a kind of exorcism , to convince him he had control over his fears — and the horrors that were waiting for him round the corner of sleep . |
| 5 | If he could n't keep up the whacked — out , languid image , you feel he 'd be ripping himself apart with guilt and recriminations . |