Example sentences of "[v-ing] himself [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everyone started laughing and I was concerned that ‘ Jacki ’ might feel alienated but he immediately started laughing himself and I knew I 'd signed a character who 'd get on fine in Scotland . ’ |
| 2 | By this time Paddy seemed to be quite enjoying himself as we trotted on through the silent , thistle-filled fields edged with woods . |
| 3 | Directing the building of what appeared to be a large fortification , Ross was clearly enjoying himself as he laughed and joked with the children , as perfectly at ease in these casual , unsophisticated surroundings as he was in the cosmopolitan offices of a smart City boardroom . |
| 4 | He clutched it by two handfuls of thick fleece , bracing himself as it tried to lunge forwards . |
| 5 | One of them would not mind sacrificing himself if he thought that the other is of more use to humanity , but sees no evidence of it . |
| 6 | He tried to breathe slowly , calming himself as he waited . |
| 7 | Then observing himself as he fluttered and flustered the teenaged Lara in a restaurant ! |
| 8 | But it 's difficult to convince Rush that Dalglish is not deluding himself if he says he is fulfilled by life after the Kop . |
| 9 | But he says he was defending himself when she threatened him with a knife . |
| 10 | ‘ Remember one thing ! ’ he said angrily , only just controlling himself as he held her by the shoulders . |
| 11 | The Director could n't ask what it was , not without implicating himself if it went wrong . |
| 12 | NICHOLAS KEPT TELLING himself that he had never before done this — as if he were somehow engaged in research and thereby exonerated . |
| 13 | A third view of what he wanted came from the same head telling himself that he wanted pupils in his school to have a vision of learning as an embodiment of self-improvement . |
| 14 | the captain on the day was batting and batting and batting himself until he got to seventy |