Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] himself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver , being left to himself in the undertaker 's shop , set the lamp down on a workman 's bench , and gazed timidly about him with a feeling of awe and dread , which many people a good deal older than he will be at no loss to understand . |
| 2 | The contemplation on the Godhead is an explanation of the Trinity as God , the original creative power , who enjoys the goodness of company in the Son whose wisdom is bound to himself by the love which is the Holy Ghost . |
| 3 | When Blanche and Dexter arrived he was mumbling to himself on the side of the bed , hands clasped in the lap of his dressing gown . |
| 4 | Every morning , the first thing Narcissus did when he woke up was to look at himself in the mirror . |
| 5 | The question of what he was to do with himself for the rest of his life was never properly resolved in his mind or anyone else 's , which perhaps accounts for his periodic assaults on the whiskey bottle — what Minto called ‘ Warnie 's benders ’ . |