Example sentences of "he [verb] himself [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Get the good word to him if you so please , ’ he said amiably , ‘ and let him make himself scarce . |
| 2 | Looks as though he 's taken his bedmate with him to keep himself warm . ’ |
| 3 | He walked down the staircase , his shoulders bowed as if by a great weight , and Kate saw him pull himself erect . |
| 4 | Let him shout himself hoarse out there , I 'd say , but there 's more . ’ |
| 5 | Even now he says he was surprised by the appointment , which caused him to make himself unavailable for the British Lions ' tour of South Africa . |
| 6 | Mum had said that if he made himself invisible people would like him and he wanted that very much . |
| 7 | He made himself agreeable to the earl 's squires in the stableyard , and kept his ears open for any revealing mentions of Robert Bossu 's tastes , temperament and interests , and what he garnered was encouraging . |
| 8 | He went off on a political career and before long was a Member of the European Parliament , always in the news as he made himself available for interviews and revealed a great flair for leading controversial campaigns . |
| 9 | When he first came the villagers wanted to get rid of him but he would n't go , and as he made himself useful they came to endure him . |
| 10 | A former officer in the so-called pink Panther Brigade under Rifat Assad , he held a master 's degree from the University of Kiev and , as Coleman quickly discovered , worked harder than anybody because he was desperate to get to America and Hurley kept promising to get a visa for him if he made himself useful . |
| 11 | He was coughing so much that he made himself sick . |
| 12 | He made himself some Ovaltine in the kitchen around ten-thirty p.m . |
| 13 | He made himself ill with the worry . |
| 14 | He kept gulping it down till he made himself ill ; |
| 15 | In spite of Amritsar , he announced himself willing to co-operate with the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms which were unveiled at the end of the year , and only changed his mind as the degree of Dyer 's support in British public opinion was borne in upon him , and as he began to find himself isolated by the more radical elements in Congress , who had either already lost their faith in the British , or had never had any . |
| 16 | Toby and I both think that he got himself involved in something that was too deep for him , and that is why he was killed . ’ |
| 17 | Unless he got himself free soon , he would die … . |
| 18 | There is no direct precedent in the second , so he thinks himself free to decide as he thinks best , on a fresh slate , whether or not there is any difference in principle between the two cases . |
| 19 | Apparently one of the the little erm boys she say , he wets himself all the time , and she turns round and she goes , he goes to er , ha ha , he started himself , and you have to change all his clothes , like that and she said |
| 20 | Although making mo' movies is his main focus now , the comedian recently returned to stand-up comedy because , he said , he found himself unhappy without an outlet for his anger at social injustice . |
| 21 | A drink was pressed into his hand , a chair held back and he found himself seated opposite Cornelius by the window , for all the world like some sixth-former seeking advice on whether to go for Oxbridge or the Guards . |
| 22 | And though it was not his way to wait passively for things to come to him , in this he found himself helpless , unable to act . |
| 23 | He found himself involved in an argument about silver wrapping-paper only serving to accentuate the paltriness of a gift . |
| 24 | In Marseilles he was laid up with his familiar fever ; at the Iles d'Hyères , near Nice , he found himself obliged to dance with the proprietress of a rough tavern to avoid embarrassing enquiries about his identity , while as always when the Stuarts set sail , the weather was appalling . |
| 25 | Increasingly , he found himself estranged from Laura , who , in the subsequent eleven years , ‘ never once asked me how things were going . |
| 26 | he found himself deep in the shit ! |
| 27 | He found himself encouraging , fostering , the scenario illusion . |
| 28 | Suddenly he found himself awake and alert . |
| 29 | All the same , I feel he found himself disappointed as well as surprised ; for his study had inveigled him into a trap . |
| 30 | Although Keane continues to develop into the most potent midfield player in English football he found himself short of powerful reinforcements yesterday . |