Example sentences of "himself [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife and daughter were mugged and raped and he set out on a trail of revenge killings in cold blood , making himself bait for the muggers . |
| 2 | Day 30 Paid himself wages for the month of £320 calculated on the basis of £80 per week for a 40 hr week . |
| 3 | He had to give himself time for the thought to reach him . |
| 4 | Mr Shamir , besieged by his party 's hawks , refused to accept America 's terms for holding Israeli-Palestinian talks in Cairo to prepare the election he had himself proposed for the occupied West Bank and Gaza . |
| 5 | Maxim found himself reaching for the non-existent seatbelt . |
| 6 | Some birds and animals come via the RSPCA and he receives funding for these ; but he himself pays for the care of injured wildlife brought in by the public . |
| 7 | The Deputy Under Secretary had no one but himself to blame for the irritation that his starched collar created just below the line of his neatly cut hair . |
| 8 | Speaking in Yemen 's capital , Sana'a , as the US secretary of state , Warren Christopher , held talks in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait , he warned that Israel 's prime minister , Yitzhak Rabin , whom Mr Christopher is scheduled to meet today , ‘ will only have himself to blame for the crazy escalation of terrorism against our Palestinian people ’ . |