Example sentences of "[verb] himself the [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 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 4 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 5 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 6 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 7 | ‘ T is so no more ’ , that is , he can no longer consider himself the same person — he has become , at last , a human being ( line 36 ) , not a dreaming poet , and he can not go back to the earlier state . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ But I will , ’ he said softly , allowing himself the smallest of smiles . |
| 10 | Durkin soon made himself the principal object of attraction . |
| 11 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 12 | DAVID Sinclair made himself the ideal employee when he filled in an application form for a sales job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 13 | He had also made himself the leading authority on fossil fish , taking over Cuvier 's work . |
| 14 | But now Mr Gorbachev has made himself the unpalatable alternative . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the local historian will find it useful to think of his chosen parish or neighbourhood in terms of broad categories such as ‘ open-field arable ’ or ‘ wood-pasture ’ or ‘ fenland edge ’ and to set himself the fundamental task of understanding how people adapted themselves to their physical environment . |
| 16 | The Shah went in there and paused in front of the graben image of the ruthless and brilliant army officer who had seized power in 1921 , and ended the Qajar dynasty , proclaimed himself the new Shah , the first of the Pahlavi dynasty , and begin to recreate Ira . |
| 17 | Emperor Akihito , 56 , formally proclaimed himself the 125th emperor of Japan on Nov. 12 , in a lavish 30-minute ceremony held 20 months after the death of his father , Hirohito ( in death known as Showa ) . |
| 18 | Voltaire , an altogether more sympathetic figure , who incidentally used to serve himself the best Burgundy while giving his guests vin ordinaire , observed in one of his philosophical tales that la lune de miel is followed the next month by la lune de l'absinthe . ] ) |
| 19 | Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week |
| 20 | He had bought himself the latest issue of Wildlife and was immersed in an article about otters . |
| 21 | It seemed — the least he could do — to deny himself the dramatic gesture , to humiliate himself . |
| 22 | He had tried out such individual projects himself the previous year when the resources first arrived , and the results were encouraging , so he was extending it : " having got more resources they were no longer all fighting over one or two books " . |
| 23 | Robin Reid , a betting shop manager from Runcorn who calls himself the Grim Reaper , guaranteed his country 's first boxing medal . |
| 24 | It will be on every player 's mind when he stands on the tee to give himself the best chance of an uphill putt , whether it be from that tee shot or a subsequent approach . |
| 25 | While Sarazen felt ‘ the biggest heel in the world ’ , he also knew he had to give himself the best chance of winning the Open ; and that , regrettably , could not be achieved with his old caddie Dan . |
| 26 | He kept up the pressure with his shoulder to give himself the widest gap possible . |
| 27 | The troubles in Kent dragged on sporadically for some two years ; in August 1450 a certain William Parmenter virtually proclaimed himself Cade 's successor by calling himself the second captain of Kent , in April 1451 there were troubles fomented by Henry Hasilden , and in May 1452 there was yet further disorder ( 42 ) . |
| 28 | SERVANT : My lady , a gentleman calling himself the noble Spaniard waits to see you . |
| 29 | With representatives arriving in Blackpool for today 's opening session of the most critical of Conservative conferences for many years , the former Cabinet minister finds himself the focal point for public and party disaffection with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 30 | A man of ninety suddenly finds himself the oldest man in the village not necessarily because he is ninety but because a man of ninety-one died yesterday . |