Example sentences of "he [vb past] himself [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hugged himself in self-pity as we took in this alien race dressed with an abandonment and originality we 'd never imagined possible . |
| 2 | He plunged himself into all this and more , avidly reading everything that came his way ; especially poetry , and not least Spanish , Chinese and Japanese poets in translation , but chiefly that of Federico Garçia Lorca and W.B. Yeats , of whom he mused , ‘ I loved Yeats ; his connections ( such an important code-word with Leonard ! ) his rhythms . ’ |
| 3 | He seated himself at one end , and Emily sat beside him . |
| 4 | He looked too big for the room as he seated himself in one of the armchairs . |
| 5 | Already under a probation order for attacking a songwriter the previous year , he found himself on another assault charge . |
| 6 | He found himself under severe pressure last year when the pit closure programme was announced . |
| 7 | He was a fanatical fisherman , and here on the borders of Galway and Mayo he found himself in some of the best fishing waters in Europe . |
| 8 | He found himself in enormous buildings , with a labyrinth of rooms , and he was lost in the pile . |
| 9 | This is virtually Nithard 's last word ; and he offers an explanation of Adalard 's power : " Caring little for the public good , he devoted himself to pleasing everyone . |
| 10 | In the Commons he devoted himself to Indian affairs with an emphasis on finance and on opening the Indian Civil Service to Indians . |
| 11 | ( And rather shocked that he helped himself to two of Helmut 's silk scarves . |
| 12 | He helped himself to some more wine . |
| 13 | He helped himself to some more lamb tikka masala . |
| 14 | He helped himself to another brandy and waved the bottle before Herr Nordern 's eyes . |
| 15 | The Brigadier seemed to be thinking furiously as he helped himself to another glass of port . |
| 16 | He left the sentence hanging as he helped himself to more rum . |
| 17 | He let himself into one of the houses through the skylight and waited , hardly daring to breath , to see if he had been detected . |
| 18 | He bore himself with great dignity , and not a little humour , but he was disappointed to the innermost core . |
| 19 | He first met Wordsworth in 1795 and corresponded with him thereafter ; meanwhile he dedicated himself to Left-wing political and religious propaganda , writing and lecturing in provincial towns . |
| 20 | He punished himself through two bouts of his heaviest exercises , until his upper arms ached , his stomach muscles felt cramped , his legs watered , head dizzy . |
| 21 | But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away . |
| 22 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |
| 23 | He stirred himself at last and looked round , to find one even more worn out with weariness than himself . |
| 24 | He displaced himself by two miles south . |
| 25 | Then he knew where she was — or would be , moments after he committed himself in one direction : behind him . |
| 26 | But Frederick Bissett detested walking , and because his Sara 's car was in the garage , and his own car sat outside overnight , he condemned himself to five minutes of scraping the ice from the windscreen and the back window and to revving the engine , blowing grey fumes away down Lilac Gardens . |
| 27 | Endowed , as he was , with a compelling creative genius , he drove himself with little regard for his own health and welfare , contributing ( over and above his journalistic duties ) serial novels , literary and political commentaries , and poems to newspapers , and an increasing flow of scholarly articles and essays to monthly and quarterly journals . |
| 28 | I caught up with Dr Mawhinney at Deacon 's School , a local comprehensive , where he subjected himself to 45 minutes of questioning from 60 youngsters as part of an in-school mock election . |
| 29 | He threw himself with good grace into everything , even this . |
| 30 | That perception only added to the urgency with which he threw himself into new international initiatives . |