Example sentences of "himself at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother 's collection of family snapshots shows that , whereas most babies look much like any other babies until they begin to grow up a little , John looked recognizably himself at a very early age , thanks largely to his big smile , almost a grin . |
| 2 | He ‘ lets go ’ in a frightening tantrum — banging his head , kicking , screaming and yelling — when he can not get his own way , such as when you try to insist on his doing something , refuse his commands or attend to people other than himself at a time when he wants your undivided attention . |
| 3 | a person who contaminates himself at a site other than the original infected source |
| 4 | Certainly there was much concern about ‘ right values ’ at that time and the writer can remember an American teacher asking Townsend himself at a conference if he was ‘ completely happy ’ about the ‘ irregularities , in the family of his Gumble 's yard . |
| 5 | Sometimes , the Minister will take the point of a desired amendment , but not like the proposed amendment itself and thus undertake instead to arrange for amendment himself at a later stage . |
| 6 | However , even if we can not blame him for murdering the other in his sleep , we might respect him more if he did put himself at a disadvantage by clinging to one of his last disintegrating scraps of morality . |
| 7 | HOLDER John Parrott yesterday pronounced himself at a career peak after reaching the semi-finals of the Royal Liver Assurance UK Championship at Preston . |
| 8 | His own dismissal of deconstruction as a merely textual practice means that he is himself at a loss when faced with the complex conceptual dialectics of the same and the other . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Dulé saw him fall , and ran , swung himself up the smooth wall of the redoubt where the gunners were hard at work , and found himself at a mere arm 's length from one . |
| 12 | Very often a student creates his first phrase and then finds himself at a loss . |
| 13 | And he employs a zig-zag training sprint which involves a series of passes before the player finishes off by flinging himself at a rugby tackle bag ! |
| 14 | Cornelius found himself at a door . |
| 15 | Praetextatus of Rouen was tried at Paris in 577 , and Gregory himself at a gathering of bishops at the royal palace of Berny-Rivière in 580 : both these last trials were held under the aegis of Chilperic I. A year later the flight of Mummolus was discussed at Lyons . |
| 16 | Constable Perkins , who had been enjoying himself at the fête , ‘ patrolling ’ the exhibits , had only by chance come into the Cookery Tent at the vital moment . |
| 17 | The Archbishop should be thoroughly ashamed of himself at the failure of the efforts of the Church to create a better society . |
| 18 | One is not prepared , however , for the discovery that Milner , so realist and clear-sighted about South Africa , was himself at the very same time an illusionist on a world scale . |
| 19 | A classic example was when he found himself at the centre of media and national attention after taking over the chairmanship of the troubled Westland Group in June 1985 . |
| 20 | I was particularly taken by Patricia Routledge , unmistakeable even looking through a letter box , and by Lionel Jeffries for his affecting rendition of : The troops are ready to mutiny , The colonel is missing or dead , When up steps a bold , young lieutenant And places himself at the head . |
| 21 | McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript . |
| 22 | As they decanted themselves McLeish managed to agree quickly with Teversham that , assuming the identification was confirmed , he would take Francis Morgan and Miss Williams back , leaving Catherine and himself at the site . |
| 23 | He hurled himself at the boy . |
| 24 | Shakespeare 's technique , to let us into a secret that the hero will only discover for himself at the end , is a common one in playwriting and storytelling . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll go in front as the standard bearer , ’ said Nigel as he placed himself at the head of his patrol . |
| 26 | At the first sign of activity on the ground floor , he pulled off his jacket and socks , hid them in a corner and positioned himself at the bedroom door , ready to make a dash for the kitchen . |
| 27 | The image Hitler portrayed of himself at the Nuremberg Rally was clearly consonant with the wide acceptance of the broad principles of legal discrimination and racial segregation , and with the satisfaction generally felt at the ending of the open brutality and pogrom-like anti Jewish disturbances of the vulgar anti-Semites . |
| 28 | Ferdinando was far too old , but only mention the cause and he would be into his old daydreams , seeing himself at the head of a column moving relentlessly on the Austrians . |
| 29 | Asked whether he shared Vera 's doubts about progress since the collapse of the communist regime , Ladislav lights another cigarette and settles himself at the table : ‘ A lot of the intellectuals are unhappy that the so-called ‘ transition' ’ is taking so long . |
| 30 | In 1415 , Hus was summoned to defend himself at the Council of Constance , having been assured of a safe conduct by the emperor Sigismund . |