Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] himself [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if Lewis wants to wear the WBC crown with pride , he must set himself aside from Riddick Bowe 's yellow-bellied tactics . |
| 2 | It was the philosophy of Epictetus that man must concern himself only with what is under his control ; what is under his control is his opinion about things and nothing else . |
| 3 | ‘ I am a bit scared of him , ’ admitted Angela ; ‘ but he might behave himself now for spoiling my Gnome costume . |
| 4 | So he 's got to be careful , and he 's worried that he might give himself away by some tiny flicker of expression . |
| 5 | ‘ He 'll drop himself right in it , one day . |
| 6 | He believed in doing , and came into his own when he was free to renounce the responsibility of reasoning anything out and could trust himself entirely to his own reflexes . |
| 7 | If the caller could identify himself either by an ID number or a codeword his call would be transferred to the relevant extension . |
| 8 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
| 9 | What did bother her was the realisation that very soon Luke could find himself part of the same mess . |
| 10 | I may be wrong about that erm but perhaps the minister could address himself specifically to that point and also to the question of pension schemes , perhaps er covered under some other legislation but I think these are matters that are of erm of of of some concern . |
| 11 | He remained keen on jiving and would throw himself all over the place , hair wild and eyes sparkling . |
| 12 | Continuing his journey westward he would find himself again in 1245 when he entered Provence and on arriving in France before Easter ( April 16 ) he would be once more in 1244 . |
| 13 | A real detective superintendent investigating a murder will confine himself largely to facts and only at the height of questioning someone he is almost certain is his quarry is he likely to go into motivation as a way , as often as not , of bring about a final confession . |
| 14 | ‘ As the intention of the Society is to form Veterinary Physicians and Surgeons intended to be dispersed throughout the Kingdom to exercise usefully their art , the Professor will teach the residing pupils only the most important difference between the two medicines — that of the human body , and that of Cattle — he will confine himself strictly to the teaching of the Veterinary Science . ’ |
| 15 | IF HE WINS in Barcelona , and sets the gold and lustrous seal upon his career , he will raise himself decisively above such nonsense before retiring to the rest of his life . |
| 16 | Instead , he will concern himself chiefly on nurturing the grass-roots of the sport during his three-year contract . |
| 17 | Thus , sometimes a seller will find himself still in possession of goods after the ownership in them has passed to the buyer . |
| 18 | Until he can hold himself safely in the correct positions without increasing his spasticity when he is lying down , sitting , standing , or walking , he has to be helped to move in every situation . |
| 19 | In fact , it is a measure of his poverty both that he is unaware of it and that he can define himself only in negative terms . |