Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] himself [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is true that no man knows what may befall him , nor how he may make himself safe against all future evils , is it not therefore the wisest course to make no provision , but to live in the present experience only ? |
| 2 | It was Marriott who suggested that Stirling should make himself scarce for a while and recommended him to Brigadier Denys Reid . |
| 3 | An appropriately experienced consultation partner who is a valuations specialist and is not otherwise associated with the client 's ( or the subject entity 's , if different ) affairs should be appointed , and thereafter , should make himself available for consultation as required during the engagement . |
| 4 | He would be free to pursue his own work , but must make himself available to students of composition . |
| 5 | That man should consider himself lucky that Marvin had n't actually been in the mood for a brawl . |
| 6 | ‘ Vinny should count himself very , very lucky to have made a lot of money out of football without having any ability . |
| 7 | So far as service is concerned , this , in the county court , is the responsibility of the court itself and the judge should satisfy himself that service has been promptly effected . |
| 8 | A constable who in the course of patrolling sees something which in his opinion is of a suspicious character , should satisfy himself one way or the other before proceeding to work the remaining portion of his ground . |
| 9 | What no one had expected was that my xenophobic father should find himself first sorry for the poor little foreigner and then gradually — but quite irreversibly — falling in love with her . |
| 10 | The to infinitive thus evokes the occurrence of an event as contingent , as something which might not have happened and which in fact was not expected to happen : the closest paraphrase is " that he should find himself alone " . |
| 11 | Well if he 's coughing as well and he might make himself sick . |
| 12 | You could say he 'll bore himself stiff , in fact . |
| 13 | He 'll count himself lucky that the rabbit-punch only stunned him and did n't lay him out . |
| 14 | Eadmer gives a curiously confused account of Anselm 's motives at this time , but one thing stands out clearly : Anselm would not bring about the chaos in personal relationships and conflict of obligations which he might find himself obliged to precipitate if he read the letter . |
| 15 | Simon was made aware that he might find himself obliged to stand down as a Parliamentary candidate if he failed to make an honest woman out of the Press Lord 's daughter . |
| 16 | However , among the lucky or sheltered it is common enough for someone to have the uneasy feeling that he is living too comfortably , might find himself unprepared to cope if his present security were to collapse , lacks adequate understanding of miseries outside his experience . |
| 17 | He could count himself lucky to have got where he had got in an all-American company . |
| 18 | If only he could give himself more time . |
| 19 | Hope could picture himself comforting Mrs Crump , shoring up the memory of her husband , praising him , assessing him , recalling ‘ mots ’ , reporting favourable comments , and then in would come the daughter , dressed entirely in black , and he would say , would be forced to say no matter what the consequences were , that the child was like the man . |
| 20 | And before he could stop himself some part of his brain that had nothing to do took control of his mouth and added , ‘ Heroes , in fact . ’ |
| 21 | He could cut himself free on the coral . |
| 22 | If I did n't give him a square meal on Monaghan Day he 'd drink himself stupid in Mohill . ’ |
| 23 | If he could help himself this would be mental vandalism ; but he ca n't ; Stavrogin 's are yawns that refuse to be stifled ; automatism and involuntarism are finally one , and the tragic villain-hero who at once apprehends the ‘ sensible idea ’ and yawns at it betrays a high but helpless intelligence recalling Raskolnikov as well as Svidrigailov . |
| 24 | So too is Martin Ling ; new signing , but an old face , Paul Bodin could find himself straight back in action . |
| 25 | Sometimes he would make himself useful in the kitchen by cleaning and tidying ; however , if accidentally locked in any room the Cauld lad would make a fearful mess , overturning furniture and scrabbling at the lock . |
| 26 | Omar had a young servant called Demise , and there was another fifteen-year-old lad called Yusuf Nico , who Omar said would make himself useful doing odd jobs . |
| 27 | Normally her husband would make himself comfortable beside the fire , sometimes holding their child in his arms , and make small talk as she peeled the potatoes and washed the greens , but tonight Carrie knew it would be different . |
| 28 | It was their fence , and it was coming down , and she had pointed that out to Frederick , and she had known he would n't do anything about it , any more than he would buy himself new underpants . |
| 29 | Cranston would drink himself silly , celebrating his triumph , and make Athelstan recount time and time again his great victory . |
| 30 | He would allow himself another three hours to enjoy a private supper before going to the Duchess 's ball where , he knew , the food would be cold and inedible . |