Example sentences of "[verb] himself [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duncan 's account is , in fact , a not unsympathetic one of Eliot punishing himself , denying himself the small pleasures or luxuries which someone of his wealth and distinction could have enjoyed : " He always took his wine flavoured with guilt " . |
| 2 | Then his face contorted in pain , and she knew instinctively with infinite relief that it was the face of a man reluctantly denying himself the sexual release he patently craved by wielding a superhuman control . |
| 3 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 4 | The young James found himself a virtual prisoner of the Red Douglases in Edinburgh castle . |
| 5 | Following independence Boudiaf had , like Ait Ahmed , found himself a political exile after opposing FLN rule . |
| 6 | Ex-convict Charrièere found himself a huge celebrity when the book sold a million copies in France , two-and-a-half million in America and ten million throughout the world . |
| 7 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 8 | There was a gulph [ sic ] between slavery and freedom which could neither be filled up nor closed over and across which the slave must leap ere he alighted on the other side and found himself a free man . |
| 9 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 10 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 11 | Mr Barker found himself an innocent victim and he was questioned and released . |
| 12 | The really astonishing thing was that Walter Schellenberg did n't consider himself a Nazi , looked on the Third Reich as a sorry charade , its main protagonists actors of a very low order indeed . |
| 13 | Parr did not consider himself a jealous man , in any way . |
| 14 | He also played cricket , and had already earned himself a bad reputation by smashing two windows in the village . |
| 15 | The Emperor takes personal command of his army whenever possible , and has earned himself an impressive record of victories and conquest . |
| 16 | Promising young batsman , Ian Place , seems to have booked himself a regular spot in A Division side . |
| 17 | Built himself a shit-hot reputation and moved firms three , maybe four times , before the Bang . |
| 18 | Only recently he 'd bought more land off the Roscarrocks ( who were selling to pay their church fines ) and built himself a new house made of ship 's beams and red brick , with upstairs rooms , a panelled hall , latticed windows and six curly chimneys . |
| 19 | Cambo 's most illustrious resident , attracted there by its salubrity , was the playwright Edmond Rostand , a florid Marseillaise who built himself an extraordinary house just outside the town to the north . |
| 20 | He built himself an extraordinary turrety and battlemented house , Strawberry Hill , at Twickenham in Middlesex , and then be wrote a romance , The Castle of Otranto , more or less using the house as a background . |
| 21 | The archbishop of Canterbury , Lanfranc of Pavia — a man who knew the whole world from Rome to London well — built himself an austere but magnificent church beside the great market place , and its crypt still survives , under the Church of St Mary-le-Bow by Cheapside . |
| 22 | Mr Flood was silent and blessed himself a great deal when he heard the news . |
| 23 | Maybe he 'd better go and buy himself a new bike , that 's always a good way to break bits of the human body . |
| 24 | In 1686 he became a London alderman , sitting for Broad Street ; but he discharged himself the following year , probably in anticipation of the purging of Anglicans from the bench . |
| 25 | He eased back from her , only allowing himself a partial penetration . |
| 26 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
| 27 | Reasoning from this he made himself a jading substance compounded of stoat 's liver and rabbit 's liver , dried and powdered up and added to dragon 's blood which was a code name among the old horsemen for one of their more powerful jading substances . |
| 28 | Just before he resigned in January Mr Peckford made himself a laughing stock for the C$20m ( $17m ) he poured into a huge complex for growing cucumbers . |
| 29 | He made himself a warm , milky drink and sat down to work . |
| 30 | Durkin soon made himself the principal object of attraction . |