Example sentences of "and [verb] himself [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has never stayed in any one place longer than a couple of years and prides himself on knowing when to go . |
| 2 | John assured me that it did n't matter in the least , and amused himself by taxying the machine up and down the runways , testing and running-in the VW engine at the same time . |
| 3 | Baldwin said , ‘ I thank God for your decision , ’ and applied himself to mediating in the coal dispute which continued independently . |
| 4 | It is tempting to explain the startling developments which duly took place in Russian domestic affairs in the second half of the 1850s and the first half of the 1860s by saying that the tsar recognized the extent of the difficulties which confronted him and applied himself to resolving them . |
| 5 | Disappointed , he returns to his rooms and consoles himself by looking through his collection of photographs of ten boys he has loved . |
| 6 | During his time at Bristol he held one of the University 's Organ Scholarships based at St Paul 's Church , Clifton , and distinguished himself by winning most of the important prizes offered by the Royal College of Organists . |
| 7 | Nigel himself vacillated between belief in and total rejection of death , and busied himself with sorting out his desk and jettisoning surplus papers . |
| 8 | After the banks ' nationalisation he sold most of his interests in the dozen or so companies he had created and drawn his wealth from , and committed himself to combating the existing political system . |
| 9 | Confronted by noble resistance and alarmed by foreign upheaval , Nicholas had shelved the issue and committed himself to upholding the status quo at home and abroad . |
| 10 | On one level it is yet another accident , and on a second level it is inevitable , it must be so because it belongs here and nowhere else , as the foreign restaurant bill belongs to a novel about human birds of passage , and as the whistle belongs to a novel , in fact the only late Dostoevsky novel , with no children in it but haunted by the toys of absent innocence and peace : the governor of ‘ our province ’ where these crazy terrible events take place was disappointed in love as a young man and consoled himself by making a paper theatre with curtains , actors , audience , orchestra , conductor — the lot . |
| 11 | Then the minister deigned to appear and defended himself by saying he had once come out to a stranger who called , but the man proved to be ‘ a little worth person ’ . |
| 12 | He resented the implied criticism , and defended himself by saying he merely gave her a book which he happened to have with him , rather than one he felt suitable for such a person . |
| 13 | And hated himself for depending on it . |
| 14 | He had managed to dislodge the noose from his neck and save himself by jumping into the freezing water below . |
| 15 | While he waited for the bath to fill he went through the whole scene again in his head and congratulated himself for staying so calm . |
| 16 | ‘ The shadow in which man walketh and disquieteth himself in vain' : see the Order for the Burial of the Dead in The Book of Common Prayer ( ‘ For man walketh in a vain shadow , and disquieteth himself in vain' ) . |
| 17 | ‘ The shadow in which man walketh and disquieteth himself in vain' : see the Order for the Burial of the Dead in The Book of Common Prayer ( ‘ For man walketh in a vain shadow , and disquieteth himself in vain' ) . |
| 18 | The horses were being led and one of the men was limping badly and supporting himself by holding on to a stirrup . |
| 19 | Corbett could scarcely understand some of the accents and contented himself with gazing around . |
| 20 | Luckily my father grew tired of this grand scheme and contented himself with firing the odd surprise question at me concerning the capacity of the umbrella-stand in pints or the total area in fractions of an acre of all the curtains in the house actually hung up at the time . |
| 21 | Although invited by the Liberal Party to be their candidate for the Clapham Division 20 years ago or more , [ he ] was unable to accept the invitation , and contented himself with speaking for the Liberal or Progressive candidate at every available opportunity in many elections . |
| 22 | He usually sneaked off to the lavatory and relieved himself by peeing and thinking of funerals . |
| 23 | Cranston lost his sour look and satisfied himself by glancing sardonically at Athelstan as he sipped daintily from the wine cup . |
| 24 | A male settles close to a female and identifies himself by vibrating his wings to the rhythm of his love song . |
| 25 | Mr Mackie claimed Murray had heated up some heroin in a spoon and injected himself before giving him enough heroin for his own injection . |
| 26 | Coons has started working out daily in a pumping iron gym , and enrolled himself in acting classes . |
| 27 | Fred stumbled and steadied himself by putting his hand on a York ham . |