Example sentences of "[verb] himself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to get out of the old activist scene and transform himself into a modern , successful businessman . |
| 2 | In choosing a kasabat kadilik , then , a student was in effect shutting himself off from the high offices of state and , provided that he intended to stay within the learned profession , dooming himself to a lifetime of service in the kasabat kadiliks unless he could somehow get back into the medrese stream . |
| 3 | ‘ And I shall tell you , my Lord Coroner , how Edmund Brampton , steward to Sir Thomas Springall , did not hang himself in the garret of that house in Cheapside ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And my name 's Ashley Fleming , ’ Ashley said , fearful that Simon might start patting himself on the back yet again . |
| 5 | A YOUNG man hanged himself after a row with his girlfriend , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 6 | A MAN hanged himself from a tree in a busy shopping centre — but no one noticed his body for at least two days . |
| 7 | To his horror he found that the young boy had hanged himself in a moment of despair . |
| 8 | ‘ When a dealing is had between a seller like Mr. Lewis and a person who is actually there present before him , then the presumption in law is that there is a contract , even though there is a fraudulent impersonation by the buyer representing himself as a different man than he is . |
| 9 | Silva , 25 , was delighted to find himself with a gallery of waiters and farm-workers from Jersey 's 3,000-strong Portuguese community . |
| 10 | He had fled the invading Germans , only to find himself in a society he hated for its philistinism and prudery . |
| 11 | He opened his eyes to find himself in a dimly-lit tent , seated upon hard muddy grass . |
| 12 | So I think he 's going to find himself in a lot of trouble . |
| 13 | It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture . |
| 14 | He liked some music but generally was n't musical and was always slightly put off to find himself in the company of those who were . |
| 15 | Muller , however , is surprised to find himself in the company of players he once idolised , and he has yet to recognise that he is about to become a similar figure . |
| 16 | Liz , at the magic moment , found herself unexpectedly clutching the hot hand of Ivan Warner , which seemed wrong but ordained : she looked for Charles , and saw that the poor man had managed to find himself in the icy palm of Lady Henrietta . |
| 17 | How bitter must he be to find himself in the position in which he was now ? |
| 18 | Surely he must have realised that he was pitting himself against a concern of considerable strength . |
| 19 | He 's amusing himself at a dull time of year , and being here without his womenfolk , but he 's as adroit at calming the storm as he is at raising it . |
| 20 | He 'd just been amusing himself with a new challenge , the new blonde female who 'd temporarily appeared in his life … |
| 21 | Increasingly man is being urged to launch himself into the barely-explored regions of his innermost self in ‘ crafts ’ which are often unstable . |
| 22 | She just looked up at him with bewildered eyes and he put her firmly away , turning to launch himself into the water . |
| 23 | PHIL Sorenti decided to launch himself off the tallest building on campus for the best of reasons . |
| 24 | Anchoring himself to a piton , he cut the climbing rope and started to unravel its strands , working with the nearly frozen fingers of one hand . |
| 25 | ‘ If man can not create anything or move anybody , if he can not break out of the prison of his total narcissism and isolation , he can escape the unbearable sense of vital impotence and nothingness only by affirming himself in the act of destruction of the life that he is unable to create . |
| 26 | Jesus releases us from this addiction by revealing himself as the willing servant , humbled to the point of death , submitting his will to the will of God . |
| 27 | It occurred to Cassie that he was keeping himself under an unnatural control , like a muzzled animal . |
| 28 | These past three years he had grown sullen and morose , keeping himself at a distance , always watching her , silently blaming her for Maisie 's tragic death . |
| 29 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 30 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |