Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] himself [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told Calero he ought to find himself a code-name — a suggestion Calero virtually ignored — because ‘ the Soviets listen to everything on the east coast ’ . |
| 2 | MIKHAIL GORBACHEV must feel himself a man cursed . |
| 3 | She worried that Chris might fall and break his leg , that Annie might swallow a stone and have to go to hospital , that Alan might give himself an ulcer through working too hard . |
| 4 | Better tie his hands , or he might do himself an injury . ’ |
| 5 | He 'll prove himself the best fighter in the world because the WBC 's main contender Tony Tucker and WBO champion Mike Moorer , a really dangerous customer , are waiting in the wings . |
| 6 | DEC perhaps captured the expectation best : ‘ Do you think he could buy himself a plane ticket and go on a personal tour of all of us — IBM , Hewlett-Packard , Sun Microsystems Inc , DEC — and bring us together in kind of an Open Software Foundation II with all of the chief executives on the same dais saying the past is behind us ? ’ |
| 7 | Spenser could consider himself a gentleman only on the basis of having been to university and acquired a Master of Arts degree . |
| 8 | If an overweight man in his fifties who is a heavy smoker , has a family history of heart disease and is working in a stressful job were to decide to ‘ get fit ’ and invite a colleague for a game of squash for the first time in twenty years , he would be doing just about the best he could to give himself a heart attack . |
| 9 | So Maurice could call himself a ‘ Christian socialist ’ , though his socialism , like that of his associate Charles Kingsley ( 1819 — 75 ) , was of a somewhat idealistic and utopian character . |
| 10 | Whether or not he could call himself a Chief Rabbit , he had no experience of this sort of thing . |
| 11 | When he did he could call himself a Wrath eagle , for the site he had been born to was that of the proudest and fiercest of the golden eagles of Scotland and his mother was a Wrath eagle before him , his father having flown up from the south and won his place at her side in aerial combat with other males . |
| 12 | Another example is where the director could pay himself a very high salary but is caught by the tax-approved pensionable earnings ceiling of £77,400 per annum ( from April ) . |
| 13 | But Charles could prove himself a good lord : when his fidelis ( faithful man ) Adalgar was captured by Charles 's half-sister ( she supported her full brother Lothar in the fraternal conflict of 841 ) and taken to her stronghold of Laon , Charles rode through the night with a small retinue to achieve Adalgar 's release . |
| 14 | If he had any sense he 'd get himself a good lawyer and keep his mouth shut . ’ |
| 15 | Consequently , a person holding property ( as a result , of course , of receiving a benefit by way of succession to the deceased ) could find himself a trustee for another on account of words addressed by the deceased either to the beneficiary or another person . |
| 16 | Now the person possessing the goods after the time limit , even if he holds the goods in bad faith , may call himself the rightful owner , while the original owner promptly loses all rights . |
| 17 | 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 . ] ) |
| 18 | A past employer of mine used to give himself a gourmet week at home once a year . |
| 19 | Albert Dawes would earn himself a permanent niche in any Palace hall of fame . |
| 20 | My objection to his high heels was that he would do himself a mischief if he had to bale out ! |
| 21 | He would give himself a treat today . |
| 22 | He would get himself a job , and he would be the man his mammy had always hoped he would be . |
| 23 | Just occasionally , he would allow himself an ad-lib . |
| 24 | Often , after he had left her at the door of her apartment , he would ridicule himself An old man with a Pygmalion fantasy . |
| 25 | Morrissey ought to get himself a string section and stop swanning about pretending to be Melvyn Bragg . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He is no longer a baby , ’ Wilson told him , holding his hand for comfort , ‘ he will think himself a big boy . ’ |
| 27 | Abraham replies , ‘ God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering , my son ’ ( Genesis 22.8 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering , my son . ’ |
| 29 | He must take the words ‘ God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering ’ at their face value . |
| 30 | The student who is confident in his library skills has a basis of trust upon which to build — and he will save himself a great deal of humiliation as well as precious time ( a commodity his teachers are themselves equally short of ) . |