Example sentences of "purge himself of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not much enjoyed the campaign , and whether because of this or of the result , he had to go immediately on a two-day walk from Kingham to Oxford to purge himself of his ‘ humours ’ . |
| 2 | He 'd done something like it before , he 'd tried to purge himself of privilege by becoming a tramp , descending among the down-and-outs of London and Paris . |
| 3 | He had thought beforehand that he would have to send her back and deal with Sung some other way , but now he had seen her he felt the need in him , like a strong , dark tar in his blood , and knew he would have to purge himself of that . |
| 4 | His home had burned with the same anger that the men responsible had felt , the anger which Carrefour had striven to purge himself of . |
| 5 | This was the emotion he had tried to purge himself of by identifying with the snakes that had taken up residence in the ashes of his family 's land . |
| 6 | Last night , for the first time since he had married Fei Yen , he had summoned a woman to his bed — one of the serving girls from the kitchens — purging himself of the need that had raged in his blood like a poison . |
| 7 | Seb realised immediately that Boz was seeking trouble as a means of purging himself of the anger and frustration that was bubbling inside him . |