Example sentences of "and [verb] himself the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean he has to take it seriously and occupy himself the effluvium which rises from it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building . |
| 4 | FOOTBALL fan Andy Meek went to watch his team York City in action yesterday — and found himself the match sponsor . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He returned to the window table and poured himself the dregs of the sherry . |
| 7 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 8 | Taff continued talking in his very strong Welsh accent as he inspected the Bren , asking questions and giving himself the answers before I could get a word in . |
| 9 | He was listening to old Legion marching songs and giving himself the Nazi salute in the mirror . |
| 10 | Here he was able to stand back from the onrush of western man and ask himself the real questions of life and meaning ; get his young life , full and successful as it had been , into perspective . |
| 11 | Edgar Linton was still in love with her , and thought himself the happiest man on earth when he married her three years after his parents ' death . |
| 12 | Triton roamed the shores raping anyone who took his fancy and earned himself the title Sea Satyr . |
| 13 | It was then that Nigger decided to get in on the act , and launched himself the length of the hallway . |