Example sentences of "gets himself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another member of the quintet , one Lyamshin , a post-office clerk , gets himself asked to parties where ‘ he would give imitations of a pig , a thunder storm , a confinement , with the first cry of the baby , etc. , etc. ; that was what he was invited for ’ ; and later we hear of him ‘ mimicking , when requested , various types of jews , a deaf peasant woman making her confession , or the birth of a child … ’ . |
| 2 | A very young man has shot himself and ‘ we ’ ride off in an inquisitive Gadarene ‘ cavalcade ’ ( ‘ our ladies had never seen a suicide ’ ) to view the corpse ; ‘ everything 's so boring ’ — recall Marya Lebyadkin 's words — ‘ one ca n't afford to be squeamish about one 's amusements so long as they are fun ’ ; and Lyamshin , the man who gets himself asked to parties to mimic women in labour , new-born babies , and peasants in the confessional , steals a bunch of grapes from the room of death . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a very patriarchal family , ’ Zoë says , ‘ the family define itself as the men , with the women and children just surrounding them — so when one man gets himself another woman , it does n't change things . ’ |
| 4 | McQueen is happiest in the action sequences such as the exciting ‘ Great Escape ’ from the prison during a concert of French ballet music , and his subsequent flight through the jungle , surviving snakes , crocodiles , Indian blowpipes , and a leper colony until he gets himself to a nunnery and is betrayed by the Mother Superior . |
| 5 | True , he gets himself so wound up at times that he ca n't help himself . |
| 6 | ‘ Bring Michael back before he gets himself into any more trouble . ’ |
| 7 | a. a man and woman sitting in the living room + the woman sitting reading quite happily — the man 's bored goes to the window looks out the window + and gets himself ready and goes out + |
| 8 | Mahoney gets himself murdered and starts the police off on that painstaking system of theirs . |
| 9 | But if young David gets himself into Parliament , I expect he 'll do as good a job on the government back benches as he would in opposition . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Not my party , but he gets himself in with both lots . |
| 11 | But , at last , John gets himself a horse . |