Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] himself [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week |
| 2 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 3 | The parties have to accept the expert 's decision , unless he has asked himself the wrong question of law : Nikko Hotels ( UK ) Ltd v MEPC plc [ 1991 ] 28 EG 86 . |
| 4 | ‘ He has given himself a hard race , ’ said Josh Gifford , but if he recovers quickly the seven-year-old will go for the H and T Walker Chase at Ascot next weekend . |
| 5 | He has driven himself a long way in a short time ( abandoning , for example , the naïve ) ; he will drive on , and we shall have to see how he uses this hardness , emphasis , energy and comprehensiveness , how much more power he has of development . ’ |
| 6 | He needs to get himself a proper economics team independent of the accident-prone Treasury establishment . |
| 7 | He managed to get himself a special bed at Bedford Institution on pretence of sickness , which proved quite unfounded . |
| 8 | She realised at once that he could be forgiven if he reminded her that she had n't been too sugary herself during that phone call : but he did nothing of the kind , though he did allow himself a small smirk before all trace of a smile went from him . |
| 9 | He had made himself an internal picture of me and now only examined it against my external appearance ’ . |
| 10 | It is evident that the deputy head soon realised that he had set himself an enormous task , despite the fact that he decided to focus on the work of three ‘ target ’ pupils . |
| 11 | Thanks to whoever it was , Baldwin by the spring of 1924 was making surprisingly good progress toward the political objectives which he had set himself the previous autumn . |
| 12 | He had realised as soon as he had employed Michael that he had found himself a kindred spirit . |