Example sentences of "[vb -s] himself the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He had tried out such individual projects himself the previous year when the resources first arrived , and the results were encouraging , so he was extending it : " having got more resources they were no longer all fighting over one or two books " .
2 Robin Reid , a betting shop manager from Runcorn who calls himself the Grim Reaper , guaranteed his country 's first boxing medal .
3 With representatives arriving in Blackpool for today 's opening session of the most critical of Conservative conferences for many years , the former Cabinet minister finds himself the focal point for public and party disaffection with Mrs Thatcher .
4 An expert can now make a final determination about the construction of documents provided he asks himself the right question .
5 Faced with the same claims about the effect of words like " fair " , the courts today apply a doctrine of " mistake " which precludes all review of the expert 's analysis , unless the expert values the wrong shares or asks himself the wrong question about concepts such as fairness : see Chapter 13 .
6 In the opening chapter of the novel , Pierre Bloye , confronted by the corpse of his father , instinctively alienated by the rituals and incantations of an absurd funeral ceremony , despairing at his mother 's willing acquiescence to the arid conventions of petty-bourgeois existence , asks himself the fundamental question : " What sort of a man was my father ? "
7 The author sets himself the lofty task of presenting the reader with a balanced description of the entire field through fermentation , microbial metabolism , copolymer composition control , to solid state physical properties and biodegradation .
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