Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] himself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How bitter must he be to find himself in the position in which he was now ? |
| 2 | But there are signs that he is distancing himself from the UN . |
| 3 | ‘ It seems he 's elevated himself into the big league these past four years . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's appointed himself to the temporary monitoring team . |
| 5 | Fraser 's had two thousand pounds in cash and been allowed lots of time by the airforce , and the army gave him a radio used in the Falklands — the rest he 's done himself with a mortgage |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After all Meredith was not alluding to her , any more than he was casting himself in the role of Caesar . |
| 8 | All she wanted to do now was get out of here because it was pretty obvious that this woman had known Felipe when he was enjoying himself on the coast and there was definitely something between them . |
| 9 | Essentially he was establishing himself as a figure of imperial stature , as his gold coinage reveals . |
| 10 | In 1964 Mr Wilson presented himself as a radical figure , but by 1974 he was comparing himself to a family doctor , and hoped , in his own words , ‘ to achieve … peace and quiet for the country ’ . |
| 11 | He was taking himself to the limit and then pushing on from there . |
| 12 | It occurred to Cassie that he was keeping himself under an unnatural control , like a muzzled animal . |
| 13 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 14 | Then I realized he was putting himself into the part . |
| 15 | It symbolized that he was putting himself under the protection of the saint , the patron of his kingdom ; but it also revealed the sort of anomaly which had entered the feudal hierarchy . |
| 16 | He was losing himself in the grey surf of her eyes , his heart threatening to smother him with its frenzied pounding . |
| 17 | He had no time for the cant of the priests about sin , but he knew , as he lay in the barracks hearing the grunts and panting of his companions , that he was honing himself for a superior form by refusing his body . |
| 18 | He was preparing himself for a British Council tour of France but it was cancelled at the last moment ; he did , however , fly to Amsterdam and then on to Rome in December under the auspices of the same organization . |
| 19 | Surely he must have realised that he was pitting himself against a concern of considerable strength . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , Meacher was only acting : he was playing himself in the 1985 TV drama Edge of Darkness , which the BBC is repeating . |
| 21 | While householders fumed in queues to find out how they should pay , he was sunning himself on an Indian Ocean holiday . |
| 22 | I could see at once he was working himself into a panic about it all . |