Example sentences of "[be] [verb] himself [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's a simple manic-depressive , as Millie could evidently see , and he 's talking himself up like a balloon from the safe plains of the depression into the thin , high air of the mania . |
| 2 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 3 | Of course , the only way out of his troubles would be to confess to someone that he was passing himself off as a Muslim for the purposes of financial gain . |
| 4 | Hands was pulling himself up among the sails now , the knife between his teeth . |
| 5 | He was sending himself up to a degree , but it does n't matter . |