Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] himself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has defended the Mulroney government , whereas Mr Charest has discreetly distanced himself from the old regime . |
| 2 | They rushed out into Regent 's Park — out of earshot — and Simon told her , yes of course he was forcing her hand , it was blackmail : he did love her so , she was the right one for him and he 'd take her tomorrow on five hundred pounds , if someone would lend them to him , and he did rather fancy himself as a married man at twenty-one . |
| 3 | Lord Wilberforce 's statement in Tameside , that the decision-maker should properly direct himself to the facts , provides a good example of one aspect of factual review which would allow the courts great latitude for substituting their view for that of the decision-maker . |
| 4 | After the surgery , told to lose 50 pounds , he duly transformed himself into a jogging optimist . |
| 5 | Throughout it all , he keenly defends himself against the propaganda with which the minders assigned to foreign journalists bombard him . |
| 6 | Mr Bérégovoy , who so prided himself as a good manager , had to hear Edouard Balladur , the new prime minister , describe the economy as being in its worst state since the second world war . |
| 7 | Of great importance was the real incentive to [ Bunn ] not only to dis-embarrass himself of a thoroughly unsatisfactory debtor by getting a guarantee secured by a charge on a registered property , but also of producing a satisfactory answer to the awkward interest being shown by those at London Head Office . |
| 8 | In relation to the Irish worker , he feels himself a member of the ruling nation and so turns himself into a tool of the aristocrats and capitalists of his country against Ireland , thus strengthening their domination over himself . |
| 9 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
| 10 | Somehow they had found out that there was a prisoner in the hospital and Eric suddenly found himself with a guard of three carabinieri who were ordered to watch over him night and day and never let him out of their sight until arrangements could be made to send him to Germany . |
| 11 | Then , in the middle of the election campaign , he suddenly found himself among the accused . |
| 12 | Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark . |
| 13 | Schmidt suddenly found himself in the space between them , his hand outstretched for the lock . |
| 14 | Lloyd & Co. had received their instructions from a member of Mr. Mahdi 's group who apparently described himself as the ‘ foreign minister ’ of the Somali Republic . |
| 15 | He had fled the invading Germans , only to find himself in a society he hated for its philistinism and prudery . |
| 16 | By middle age Bartram has so educated himself in the classics , sciences , medicines and above all , botany , that he was regarded as one of the intellectuals of his time . |
| 17 | They moved to Dallas , and Graham has so immersed himself in the American way of life that I am surprised he has not sought American citizenship . |
| 18 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 19 | After all , Changez was needed in the shop even more urgently now that Anwar had so enfeebled himself on the Gandhi-diet in order to get Changez to Britain in the first place . |
| 20 | Now Sixsmith was gently frisking himself with a deepening frown . |
| 21 | He swiftly established himself as a dominant influence in New Zealand station architecture and produced many remarkable buildings . |
| 22 | William , we may remember , had thoughtfully provided himself with a burial plot many years before : so square L9 , grave no. 62,076 it was , as he was laid to rest at Abney Park . |
| 23 | In examining my own background it seems logical to refer to the findings of Selvini Palazzoli and Minuchin on the families of anorexics , but whereas Minuchin especially confines himself to the family ambience at the time of the onset of the disease , I should like to say a little more about the genesis of that family ambience . |
| 24 | Submitting to ‘ Be aware ’ , he attends closely to his situation and to his own reactions , and instead of trying to infer from principles how he ought to respond , discovers how when most aware he does respond , and perhaps surprises himself by an impulse contrary to social convention or to his own self-image . |
| 25 | Over the next decade a succession of ‘ Aldwych farces ’ would run for at least 200 performances each , and some for many more : A Cuckoo in the Nest ( 1925 ) , Rookery Nook ( 1926 ) , Thark ( 1928 ) , and Plunder ( 1928 ) alone occupied the years from 1925 to 1929 , and to them all Lynn would bring his own unique brand of wistful stooging : essentially he was the Stan Laurel [ q.v. ] to the much more bluff Hardy of Tom Walls , but Lynn 's timing , notably on staircases and when suddenly finding himself in the wrong room with the wrong people and quite often the wrong name , was a lesson in comic technique for generations of stage actors . |
| 26 | Pedro Fernández Dittus was not , however , required to spend time in detention but merely to present himself to the authorities once a week . |
| 27 | Lindsay Crosby : 51 , youngest son of the singer Bing Crosby , found dead in his Los Angeles home after apparently shooting himself in the head with a smallbore rifle . |
| 28 | ENGLAND manager Graham Taylor is faces up to the most important year of his career , already bracing himself for a row which could undermine his World Cup plans . |
| 29 | That Pericles ' maternal relatives , the noble family of the Alkmaionidai , were enemies of Themistokles ( as they certainly were is no objection to this view : Pericles ' father had already distanced himself from the Alkmaionidai by the time of his ostracism in 484 ( Ath . |
| 30 | Theuderic , who was Clovis 's son by an earlier liaison , had already distinguished himself as a military leader : he could not be passed over . |