Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] himself the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 2 | He will then be able to see for himself the resignation , if not quiet contempt , with which his customers regard the service for which he and his managers must hold themselves fully accountable . |
| 3 | Barratt had been up to Tilberthwaite to see for himself the likely value of Knott 's sett on the Muncaster estate land there and he considered it to be a worthwhile proposition having seen , as he put it , " good bunches of ore under water " . |
| 4 | Will my hon. Friend therefore give me an undertaking that he will visit Dartford early in the new year , or on Christmas day if need be , to see for himself the damage that has been done to our river and how much has been lost ? |
| 5 | They also demanded that President Guillermo Endara Gallimany , 56 , make a personal visit to the old part of the city to see for himself the severe level of poverty the population was being forced to endure . |
| 6 | The jury , sitting in court 4 at Bristol , were sent home early by Judge Overend , so that he could drive to the bridge to see for himself the spot at which the accident happened . |
| 7 | Concerned about his influence , and afraid to beard the sultan himself , " the vezir Mahmud Pasa " consulted Fahreddin Acemi who , having heard for himself the Hurufi 's heretical words , denounced him in Mehmed II's presence . |
| 8 | God created us for His own purposes , gave us free will to decide between good and evil , but retained unto Himself the ultimate decisions about the creation of life . |
| 9 | Similarly , in what seemed a particularly unconventional technique at the time , Michel Butor , in La Modification ( 1957 ) , employs a second-person narrative as a means , apparently , of voicing the monologue which Léon Delmont is conducting with himself as he travels from Paris to Rome to join his mistress , explaining to himself the history of his affair and anticipating how it will resolve itself . |
| 10 | They ensured that the infant emperor continued to study in Paris for another seven years and meantime the French Resident Superior in Hue arrogated to himself the few remaining vestiges of imperial authority . |
| 11 | He went bounding up the stairs , three or four at a time , praying to himself the room had n't been taken over by some amorous couple while he 'd been away , cursing himself for doubting her . |
| 12 | He had seen for himself the progress that had been made in the three days since he had last visited the laboratories . |
| 13 | Best to put off even thought until he had seen for himself the place where murder had been done , and the victim who had suffered it . |
| 14 | Yet no Scot who regularly watches BBC 's Rugby Special , and has seen for himself the standard of much of the club game in Wales , will doubt their latent capacity to erupt in attack . |
| 15 | If he held his hand over a flowering plant , he could sense in himself the healing properties of that flower . |
| 16 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
| 17 | The pope applied to himself the words of Christ , ‘ He that heareth you heareth me ’ . |
| 18 | Because — no harm in saying it once again — this is the essence of the private-eye novel : that its hero actively goes out and grabs to himself the facts that he needs . |
| 19 | The child is probably trying to write down a suitable looking word , and has n't said to himself the actual word he has written down . |
| 20 | ‘ He was highly strung , easily depressed , ’ he said , ‘ but used to go round the theatre chanting to himself the words — which I believe he learned from Frank Finlay , who played his father in the play — ’ I must be resilient , resilient ! ’ |
| 21 | After a trial lasting five days he was eventually convicted , under count 1 , of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception , contrary to section 16(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , in that he dishonestly obtained for himself the opportunity to earn remuneration in an office or employment as an accountant to a man called Burt , by falsely representing that he was a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and held qualifications from the Institute of Marketing . |
| 22 | Besides , Edouard should see for himself the vineyards and plantations there : they were doing well , Jean-Paul said proudly . |
| 23 | On his return , Williams could now see for himself the changes that had taken place in the social and political structure of Trinidad and Tobago during his absence . |
| 24 | He would never dare openly to disobey Smallfry , but he had learned to listen for every shift in her voice-tone and read for himself the most subtle variation in her smile . |
| 25 | Mr Fallon arranged the meeting after visiting Darlington to hear for himself the problems landlords had . |
| 26 | And the Rechem case comes to Scotland as the Judge sees for himself the former factory . |
| 27 | A clause inserted by Lord Muncaster reserved for himself the right " at any time during the said 21 yrs " , if he so wished , to become a " partner of ¼ in the concern " by paying a " full part of the expenses from the commencement thereof of working the same … " |
| 28 | By leasing he could not only spread the payments , but either enjoy for himself the benefit of a 100 per cent tax write-off on the asset of the plane in the first year , or come to some arrangement with a financier , who would build the tax deduction into the price . |
| 29 | When you are interrupted in contemplative devotion , says Hilton , do n't be angry and depressed but This is the mode by which man following a mixed life realises in himself the creative love of God — the fire of love that Rolle talked of as consuming all that is dark . |
| 30 | ‘ Will I ? ’ asked Pascoe , trying to conceal from himself the effort he had to make to keep up with Dalziel down the corridor . |