Example sentences of "[vb base] himself [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Damnation ’ will approach his target and introduce himself with an opening line which usually goes something like , ‘ Hi . |
| 2 | Perhaps we might have a look at things , at this stage , through the eyes of young Benjamin Titford , the youngest surviving son , left motherless at nine years old ; waving his big brother William Charles goodbye as he set off for London soon afterwards ; watching brother John cough himself into an early grave ; listening to endless conversations about high prices , shortages , and a war across the channel ; dragged out of his bed in the middle of the night to cries of ‘ Fire ! ’ and ‘ Flood ! ’ ; struggling to keep warm every winter ; watching his father die of a long illness — these experiences made his childhood , in modern terms , an awful , albeit a dramatic one . |
| 3 | ‘ Rickie Crowninshield , ’ I said stiffly , ‘ has already lost the sight of one eye because of cocaine , and if he does n't stop using the drug then he will almost certainly go to jail or even kill himself with an overdose . ’ |
| 4 | When in trouble he could , like a god , make himself invisible or turn himself into an animal . |
| 5 | The second , referred to obscurely in Helen 's last letter from Margate , was Mr Thomas 's decision that Edward should not take up a Civil Service post , but instead prepare himself for an Oxford entrance scholarship . |