Example sentences of "himself [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so Willi was squeezing himself into his best suit , the one he wore for daytime ceremonial occasions , and had spattered himself lavishly with aftershave cologne , and spent a long time arranging the frill of curls round his bald crown . |
| 2 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
| 3 | For the rest of the match he proceeded to annoy me and my fellow spectators by positioning himself right between us and the action . |
| 4 | He had moved himself right across France and through Spain to get himself repatriated . |
| 5 | She was forced to face him as he planted himself right across her path . |
| 6 | He put himself right before every one of them , and he was so intelligent at the job that all I had to do was to ride him quietly and let him jump without fussing him . ’ |
| 7 | ENGINEER Terry Higgins dropped himself right in it when he rescued a teenager trapped for three days in a freezing bog . |
| 8 | ‘ He 'll drop himself right in it , one day . |
| 9 | ‘ He got a gun and shot himself right in the head . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Imaginative and headstrong , he became an art student , throwing himself wholeheartedly into all the extracurricular activities of the day , including , in 1968 , organising a student occupation of his art college in Croydon with a friend , Jamie Reid . |
| 12 | Throwing himself wholeheartedly into Ulster Unionist opposition home rule in the early twentieth century , he was an active member of the Ulster Unionist Council and first president of the Ulster Unionist Labour Association . |
| 13 | Seeing himself as the peacemaker among his fellow monarchs , and adopting as his motto Beati Pacifici ( Blessed are the Peacemakers ) , he repeatedly refused to commit himself wholeheartedly to the Protestant cause . |
| 14 | Edward , however , was still reluctant to commit himself wholeheartedly to Balliol 's cause . |
| 15 | Tom himself said it was because he had to work hard at school at subjects other than music , he could not devote himself wholeheartedly to the flute . |
| 16 | The pimp raised himself slowly on his elbows , Chen 's gun pressed all the while against his right temple . |
| 17 | I think he would have liked another , but instead he pulled himself slowly to his feet . |
| 18 | He clambered aboard the coach , the juniors raised a brief , cheeky cheer , half mocking and half friendly , the driver hoisted himself imperturbably into his cab , and the coach started up and surged ponderously through the gates and away along the Silcaster road . |
| 19 | To the great irritation of John Smith 's supporters , Gould has presented himself skilfully as the ideas candidate . |
| 20 | He threw himself vigorously into the work in hand , and presented the aspect of one who did not know when to stop . |
| 21 | He swam around in the cold plunge for five minutes to close his pores , then towelled himself vigorously before jumping on the scales in the rest room . |
| 22 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 23 | The editor of Argumenty i Fakty , Vladislav Starkov , under strong criticism following the publication in early October 1989 of a readers ' poll of the most unpopular Congress deputies [ see p. 36980 ] , continued to defend himself vigorously in the media and his staff threatened to resign if he was dismissed ; in late October , however , the paper appeared to be trying to appease the party central committee by publishing both an interview with Yegor Ligachev , a leading conservative CPSU politburo member and central committee Secretary responsible for Agriculture , and also an opinion poll favourable to Gorbachev . |
| 24 | Oh Jane , my hope … my love … my life ! ’ and he threw himself despairingly on the sofa . |
| 25 | His feet sank into a carpet whose blues and creams evoked a summer sky and , at Vigo 's behest , he lowered himself uneasily into a chair with a yellow satin seat and legs of rearing dragons . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Instead of proceeding at his normal brisk trot , he lumbered up the step-ladder and heaved himself ponderously inside the machine 's cabin . |
| 28 | The first is that by positioning himself conspicuously behind a veil , the Resident could leave the population in a state of desirable uncertainty about the degree of influence he actually exercised over their emir : his advice was not seen to be taken , but neither was it seen to be rejected . |
| 29 | Confronted with a party weighted in favour of the clerical , he nevertheless took a thoughtful look at Hugh Beringar , and addressed himself rather to the secular justice . |
| 30 | Crane stretched himself luxuriously on his bed of dried grasses . |