Example sentences of "that he be [verb] himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you can hardly set out to persuade your most promising applicant that he 's downgrading himself . |
| 2 | But unless John realises that he 's preventing himself getting the success he desires , through thinking that he does n't deserve it , he 'll do no more than keep cruising along . |
| 3 | But there are signs that he is distancing himself from the UN . |
| 4 | Or I might suspect too much vehemence in his insistence that he loves gibbons , and suggest that he is deceiving himself , that visiting the animals has become a habit without much joy in it . |
| 5 | ‘ Wolf , she wo n't hurt us , ’ aware that he was repeating himself . |
| 6 | His mind had become detached from his body so that he was watching himself . |
| 7 | ‘ The facts show that he was helping himself . ’ |
| 8 | Of course , the only way out of his troubles would be to confess to someone that he was passing himself off as a Muslim for the purposes of financial gain . |
| 9 | But he soon realized that he was leaving himself too little time for all the work he had to complete , and a regular routine of three days in London ( generally from Tuesday to Thursday ) and four days at Shamley Green was established instead . |
| 10 | She said it courteously , using the same polite professional tone that he was using himself , all the time hating the fact that he never teased her now . |
| 11 | From the way his instructions became more explicit , it is clear that he was teaching himself stagecraft as he went along , and learning fast . |
| 12 | Supporters were even more taken aback to learn that he was calling himself James , rather that the long-familiar Jimmy . |
| 13 | First , that he was pushing himself too far too fast , that his appetite was outstripping his ability and his knowledge of the sport . |
| 14 | It symbolized that he was putting himself under the protection of the saint , the patron of his kingdom ; but it also revealed the sort of anomaly which had entered the feudal hierarchy . |
| 15 | I think that he was pulling himself down to touch the pit of his character . |
| 16 | Friends feared that he was killing himself . |
| 17 | In a suicide note Nguyen Van Hai said that he was killing himself in protest at Hong Kong 's refugee screening policy . |
| 18 | Ward 's excuse for talking in Spanish had been that he was accustoming himself to using it freely . |
| 19 | Although in the early days Derek was happy to drive me around and did n't even charge me for the petrol , pretty soon our visits here and there grew so frequent and far afield that he was finding himself quite a bit out of pocket . |
| 20 | It occurred to Cassie that he was keeping himself under an unnatural control , like a muzzled animal . |
| 21 | Barbara thought that he was driving himself too hard . |
| 22 | He had no time for the cant of the priests about sin , but he knew , as he lay in the barracks hearing the grunts and panting of his companions , that he was honing himself for a superior form by refusing his body . |
| 23 | Somewhere on another plane of existence she knew that he was pacing himself , tuning himself to her slower needs : that his tiny muted cries of painful frustration were evidence of his consideration as he aroused her to an aching , trembling plateau of desire . |
| 24 | Surely he must have realised that he was pitting himself against a concern of considerable strength . |