Sentence examples for come to himself from inspiring English sources
"He was in the Derby, but he wasn't eating very well [in the spring]," Cecil said, "then just before he won at Newmarket [earlier this month] he started to come to himself.
This is a lovely big horse who took a long time to come to himself but hosed up in a bumper at Southwell when he eventually made his debut in February.
He continues, with approbation, "Jim sucked and sucked at the jug, and now and then he got out of his head and pitched around and yelled; but every time he come to himself he went to sucking at the jug again.
This time, when the waitress refused to serve him, he pretended not to hear in order to draw her closer — "I wanted her to come close enough for me to get her neck between my hands" — and finally hurled a mug of water at her and ran, realizing only when he had come to himself that he had been ready to murder another human being.
He said: "The first step therefore is to make the black man come to himself; to pump back life into his empty shell; to infuse him with pride and dignity, to remind him of his complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused and therefore letting evil reign supreme in the country of his birth … This is the definition of black consciousness".
If there was any bitterness on a great night for South African racing connections it was the thought that the brave winner is owned by Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, a person whose personal form is unappealing to say the least, but otherwise it was a satisfying performance by a horse who has clearly come to himself in maturity and is already being talked of as a potential Melbourne Cup winner.
