Sentence examples for testing himself to from inspiring English sources

But I think he is just testing himself, to see if he's still alive.

One was a relationship with a young woman, another was a concern about the banality of life we all live, and a third an obsession with proving himself and testing himself to find out what kind of character he had".

Farah, then, will be on a British revival mission when he makes his debut in the 2014 Virgin London Marathon – after first testing himself to the halfway mark against a field including the present world record holder Patrick Makau (whose global mark stands at 2 03 38) in this year's London race on 21 April.

Every picture he painted was to test himself, to do it in a different way.

Given the nature of the laws, many of which are open to interpretation, it surprises me that any mere human being should attempt to test himself to this degree on a weekly basis.

I've received thousands of letters from people who admire McCandless for his rejection of conformity and materialism in order to discover what was authentic and what was not, to test himself, to experience the raw throb of life without a safety net.

The Dutch national team, which Visser's father used to captain, is never going to attain such dizzy heights and it is healthy that a gifted athlete can now test himself to the limit, having served the requisite three-year period of residency.

By "gone" I mean off to Toulon to test himself at the famously intense French coalface, and this will render him all but ineligible for England selection.

Through it all, he kept testing himself, finding ways to keep the material fresh.

Paul Lambert is relishing the chance to test himself at the highest level after leading Norwich back to the Barclays Premier League.

In his early days as a manager, Clough used to wonder aloud whether he really wanted to test himself at the highest level.