Example sentences of "himself in [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a notice of appeal dated 13 January 1992 the council appealed on the grounds that the assistant recorder ( 1 ) misdirected himself in holding that the question of suitability of given future accommodation for the purpose of sections 65 and 69 was one of fact and fell to be determined by the county court in proceedings for breach of statutory duty , and ( 2 ) ought to have held that the plaintiff should have proceeded by way of an application for judicial review . |
| 2 | The grounds of the appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge misdirected himself in holding that the preliminary issue should be answered in the affirmative and/or in giving judgment on the preliminary issue for the plaintiff and ( 2 ) the defendants were not liable in negligence to the plaintiff for any injury , loss or damage suffered by him while a foetus and en ventre sa mère since he was born prior to the passing of the Congenital Diabilities ( Civil Liability ) Act 1976 and the common law did not recognise such a cause of action . |
| 3 | He could scarcely help himself in choosing this physical format . |
| 4 | We see God 's good creation progressively soured as a result of man 's sin in overreaching himself in trying to become like God . |
| 5 | Professor Camille has thoroughly enjoyed himself in looking at such images , and he skilfully shares with us his delight and enthusiasm for what he has found . |
| 6 | What it does show , is just how much of a theoretical problem Engels had made for himself in creating this highly problematical gens stage of history where there were no divisions of any kind . |
| 7 | Coons has started working out daily in a pumping iron gym , and enrolled himself in acting classes . |
| 8 | An exception to this tendency towards a belief in technological determinism is that branch of Marxist history which follows Marx himself in preferring to focus on changes in the social organization of productive relations . |
| 9 | The race was really on now , and as the quartet came away from the third last and turned into the straight Desert Orchid suddenly had a fight on his hands — not from Ten of Spades , who had exhausted himself in drawing the grey 's sting and now fell heavily at the second last , but from Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin . |
| 10 | I HOPE the Attorney-General is ashamed of himself in allowing the sentence of rapist Dr Thomas Courtenay to stand . |
| 11 | A Devil , mischievous , destructive but lovable , appears and contrives by various ruses , such as that of disguising himself as a beautiful girl , to amuse himself in causing havoc and death among the soldiers and finally , by playing furiously upon his violin , to force the villagers to dance to death . |
| 12 | For the rest of a sunny but refreshingly cool Delhi day he buried himself in batting practice with a vigour that would have sapped any man without his phenomenal stamina . |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | ‘ The shadow in which man walketh and disquieteth himself in vain' : see the Order for the Burial of the Dead in The Book of Common Prayer ( ‘ For man walketh in a vain shadow , and disquieteth himself in vain' ) . |
| 15 | ‘ The shadow in which man walketh and disquieteth himself in vain' : see the Order for the Burial of the Dead in The Book of Common Prayer ( ‘ For man walketh in a vain shadow , and disquieteth himself in vain' ) . |
| 16 | If he misdirects himself in coming to his decision , the court can say : ‘ Very well then . |
| 17 | In the most serious cases , a field man will always be concerned with covering himself in deciding whether or not to take a formal sample . |
| 18 | It is not wholly clear whether it is permissible for the tribunal of fact to take into account the surrounding circumstances and the conduct of any person defending himself in assessing the level of violence being used , and the frightening quality of the incident . |
| 19 | In recent years Winters has interested himself in making objects of glass and ceramics . |
| 20 | He said he had n't the strength to act on it , and yet he exhausted himself in making it roadworthy . |