Example sentences of "[verb] himself this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before we leave Glamorgan , a word of congratulation to Stephen James , who has been opening in place of Butcher and compiling runs with the kind of technique that reveals how earnestly he is trying to establish himself this summer . |
| 2 | Lewis asked himself this question as he went down in the lift and crossed the arrivals hall of Terminal Two to await the exodus from Customs . |
| 3 | IF Gidon Saks has been in the last year the bovver boy of Scottish Opera , singing splendidly but speaking out of turn , he has surely redeemed himself this week directing the RSAMD Opera Class in two productions at the New Athenaeum . |
| 4 | Shivering the night away in the reeking darkness of the tunnels , he had asked himself this question more than once . |
| 5 | As he lay beside her later , exalted and still alive , he thought of how he had previously denied himself this ecstasy . |
| 6 | The same has happened at the Department of the Environment : Christopher Patten has conducted himself this week as the antithesis of an ideologue . |
| 7 | FOOTBALL shares are about as safe as betting that Gazza wo n't injure himself this season . |