Example sentences of "[verb] himself [art] few " in BNC.
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1 | The words of the runner to Eli are very close to those the storyteller used himself a few verses before to describe the outcome of the battle . |
2 | He normally managed this by allowing himself a few seconds of pure indulgence in sensation and then thinking of something neutral for a while and , if this did n't work , something really horrible . |
3 | He permitted himself a few seconds to savour his revenge , before delivering the coup de grace with a heti'i power-kick , which would snap Grant 's neck like a dried stick . |
4 | He 's gone to bowl in the deep mid wicket position and Gooch just giving himself a few yards er mid-on . |
5 | It was also possible for fearful accidents to occur to a driller who decided to save himself a few inches by using the bottom of an exploded shot-hole . |
6 | He began to make himself a few pence early on — running messages , collecting newspapers for the chip shops and horse dung for fertiliser , finding the pay-penny cracks in life on the narrow streets . |