Example sentences of "and [verb] himself [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The notorious Dr Crippen , he pointed out , in fact murdered his assertive wife only because he was too vain simply to run away from her and make himself a target for scorn . |
| 2 | ‘ Should be , should n't there ? ’ said Joe , who 'd put his new jersey on and given himself an expensive look . |
| 3 | So he went and got himself a commission before conscription became law . |
| 4 | Peter left school and got himself a sales job but he was discovered stealing from a customer . |
| 5 | Mitch offered , and got himself a glare . |
| 6 | He put the phone down and went and got himself a malt whisky , a squat , powerful-looking man with white hair who wore steel-rimmed spectacles . |
| 7 | But he went and got himself an apprenticeship and then his parents saw that he |
| 8 | Only recently he 'd bought more land off the Roscarrocks ( who were selling to pay their church fines ) and built himself a new house made of ship 's beams and red brick , with upstairs rooms , a panelled hall , latticed windows and six curly chimneys . |
| 9 | Maybe he 'd better go and buy himself a new bike , that 's always a good way to break bits of the human body . |
| 10 | As soon as the shops opened after the holidays he was going to go out and buy himself a tie ! |
| 11 | I mean he has to take it seriously and occupy himself the effluvium which rises from it . |
| 12 | Never before had he gone so far and labelled himself an alcoholic . |
| 13 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 14 | Then a bearded man in a bowler hat and overcoat came in , looked around and found himself a seat in a corner . |
| 15 | There was a gulph [ sic ] between slavery and freedom which could neither be filled up nor closed over and across which the slave must leap ere he alighted on the other side and found himself a free man . |
| 16 | He came here with my grandmother when he was in his early twenties , changed his name from Vassilakas to Vass and found himself a job in the only trade he knew . |
| 17 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 18 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 19 | FOOTBALL fan Andy Meek went to watch his team York City in action yesterday — and found himself the match sponsor . |
| 20 | Mr Flood was silent and blessed himself a great deal when he heard the news . |
| 21 | Jim Bob , thousands of miles from home , still nurturing that Fagin-style goatee , sits backstage at Boston 's Paradise Club and allows himself a crooked smirk . |
| 22 | Pourquery displayed a variety of touch shots and moved with great athleticism about the court , to defeat his net rushing opponent 6–4 6–7 6–2 and earn himself an intriguing place in the final against Hunter . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the local historian will find it useful to think of his chosen parish or neighbourhood in terms of broad categories such as ‘ open-field arable ’ or ‘ wood-pasture ’ or ‘ fenland edge ’ and to set himself the fundamental task of understanding how people adapted themselves to their physical environment . |
| 24 | We got to hear about this " mad American " who had designed and built himself a magnificent villa in an almost inaccessible spot on the side of the mountain . |
| 25 | He took off his shoes , climbed into a chair , rolled a cigarette and poured himself a coffee . |
| 26 | He walked back into the lounge , picked up a bottle half full with scotch , and poured himself a liberal glass full . |
| 27 | He went to the side-table and poured himself a glass of water . |
| 28 | He found the bottle of Southern Comfort and poured himself a large measure . |
| 29 | When he was gone Klaus Ebert went across to the decanter and poured himself a second brandy . |
| 30 | Carrying the telephone with him , he walked into the kitchen and poured himself a small whisky . |