Example sentences of "to purge himself of " in BNC.

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1 He had not much enjoyed the campaign , and whether because of this or of the result , he had to go immediately on a two-day walk from Kingham to Oxford to purge himself of his ‘ humours ’ .
2 He 'd done something like it before , he 'd tried to purge himself of privilege by becoming a tramp , descending among the down-and-outs of London and Paris .
3 He had thought beforehand that he would have to send her back and deal with Sung some other way , but now he had seen her he felt the need in him , like a strong , dark tar in his blood , and knew he would have to purge himself of that .
4 His home had burned with the same anger that the men responsible had felt , the anger which Carrefour had striven to purge himself of .
5 This was the emotion he had tried to purge himself of by identifying with the snakes that had taken up residence in the ashes of his family 's land .
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