Example sentences of "[vb base] himself [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would lash out at her and afterwards hide himself away in some shady corner where he would sit , his head lowered to his knees , engulfed in a dangerous brooding mood that lingered until the day 's end . |
| 2 | His plan , he explained , was to become a good enough draughtsman to earn a hundred francs a month and so support himself modestly without assistance . |
| 3 | I mean by this it was not the sort of preparation which on the one hand Elizabethan erm critics and writers of rhetoric books , or on the other hand Ezra Pound in the twentieth century would advise to the poet that he must learn to turn a good sonnet or write in all the metrical forms , or accomplish himself deftly in the technical devices . |
| 4 | The immediacy of this world of conflict demands that regardless of his proximity to the metaphorical dirt he is controlling , he needs to erect and maintain social and psychological barriers and separate himself conceptually from the ‘ prig ’ . |
| 5 | 223 ( including the passage , at p. 229 , ‘ a person entrusted with a discretion must , so to speak , direct himself properly in law ’ ) and the manner in which thereafter he applied those principles to the facts of the case before the House . |
| 6 | All that was generally required of Gabriel was to point a finger , or spread his arms ; to stand up majestically , or fling himself forward into a flying harness high above the stage . |
| 7 | He has to splay his legs either side of the seat and heave himself upright with a jerk . |
| 8 | One big American came out to do his act and I saw him blanch , and then visibly pull himself together before proceeding . |
| 9 | He had also developed such affection for his owner , and had become so possessive of her , that if he saw her stroking another horse , he would roar with rage and throw himself sideways against the nearest fence , cutting and scraping his skin so that it bled . |
| 10 | At the end of the poem Coleridge see himself almost as a shamanic figure who has returned from a prophetic trance , someone whose duty is to spread ‘ the milk of Paradise ’ . |
| 11 | It was pleasant to lie and think of other Februaries and see himself abroad at dusk in the fields under a chilling rain , standing in a cart hunched up against the storm , bending and rising and bending again to toss turnips to the streaming cattle , listening to their soft thud in the mud and the straining of the horse as his hooves sucked and sank , the cattle lowing plaintively and the sharp crunch of their scooping teeth . |