Example sentences of "himself [prep] having " in BNC.
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| 1 | He despised the little Jew for his grasping , mercenary manner , despised himself for having to use such trash . |
| 2 | The only person who came to mind was the Substitute , but years of battling with arrogant , ambitious magistrates had taken their toll and he smiled ruefully at himself for having such a peculiar idea . |
| 3 | Food lay like clods of clay in his stomach and it rained , but he was supported by a sense of majesty in ideas and even in himself for having them , though this latter maintenance came and went . |
| 4 | He shifted impatiently as if annoyed at himself for having to stop to think . |
| 5 | Seemed proud of himself for having found out , because he said it 's supposed to be the planet 's big secret . |
| 6 | Driving back from seeing Ray Darby , Wickham was stern with himself for having twice in one day fallen into reminiscence about Vanessa . |
| 7 | It would be a long time before he stopped despising himself for having succumbed to a purely physical attraction , and that towards a woman he despised . |
| 8 | However , the frown on his face did not surprise her , as it probably meant he was annoyed with himself for having been quite so fervent in the way he 'd crushed her lips beneath his own . |
| 9 | If he is beginning to share the public anxiety about standards in our schools , he should be ashamed of himself for having resisted each and every reform that has been aimed at reversing the trend and improving them . |
| 10 | Owen cursed himself for having been so foolhardy as to get involved in this affair . |
| 11 | Alayn , unwittingly , boasts to the miller himself of having three times " " swyved " " the miller 's daughter . |
| 12 | Everyone 's perpetual concern to safeguard himself against having to take legal responsibility necessitates a fearful expenditure of effort , paper , ink , and time , slows down the transaction of business , removes from the provincial and district agencies all feelings of independence , and teaches them to act surreptitiously if at all . |
| 13 | He credits himself with having approx 2,311 Munros . |
| 14 | In an autobiographical account written a couple of years later , he described himself in having been " absolutely alone , of the most painful experiences and disappointments " ; and of his first response to " Schpenhauer 's masterpiece " he wrote that " in this book , in which every line cried out renunciation , denial and resignation , I saw a mirror in which I espied the whole world , life and my mind depicted in frightful grandeur " . |
| 15 | Dr Craig-Dunlop , who owns it , prides himself on having all the latest equipment . ’ |
| 16 | He was a man who prided himself on having everything at his fingertips , but he had not counted on Berdichev 's directness . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , her husband could not reconcile himself to having married a commoner and even taught their sons to be disrespectful to her when they were young . |
| 18 | They release the teacher for other work by giving the pupil something which he can operate himself without having to have the teacher there ; and they can also enliven the teaching of otherwise difficult topics . |
| 19 | It had been born of an instinctive recognition of the damage he could do to her emotional independence and , paradoxically , exacerbated by the way he had deprived her of himself by having her dismissed from that job ; finally there had been his open contempt when they had met again … |