Example sentences of "he [vb past] himself [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made himself a cup of coffee and then , feeling deflated and not a little depressed , went to bed . |
| 2 | Back at Uncle Albert 's , Gedanken searched the fridge for a Coke ; he made himself a coffee . |
| 3 | Reasoning from this he made himself a jading substance compounded of stoat 's liver and rabbit 's liver , dried and powdered up and added to dragon 's blood which was a code name among the old horsemen for one of their more powerful jading substances . |
| 4 | He made himself a cup of instant coffee and two slices of toast . |
| 5 | Still yawning , he made himself a cup of tea and took it to bed . |
| 6 | He made himself a warm , milky drink and sat down to work . |
| 7 | As I was saying : they dig up that and also Francis 's moment of passion when he made himself a father — which must have been more than twenty years ago ! |
| 8 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
| 9 | He made himself the centre for information during the Red Raids that followed , brutal nights when civil liberties were swept aside . |
| 10 | He built Himself a pageant , did n't He ? |
| 11 | He built himself an extraordinary turrety and battlemented house , Strawberry Hill , at Twickenham in Middlesex , and then be wrote a romance , The Castle of Otranto , more or less using the house as a background . |
| 12 | After the war ended he found himself a completely free agent , suddenly removed from the safety of neutral Switzerland ; he was shaken , disturbed ; his true self was born . |
| 13 | Instead of contested tithes , he found himself the guardian of a rich , varied , and passionately cultivated tradition for which the documentary evidence was fragmentary , but the local testimony entirely firm . |
| 14 | In 1686 he became a London alderman , sitting for Broad Street ; but he discharged himself the following year , probably in anticipation of the purging of Anglicans from the bench . |
| 15 | Consider , for example , Kloppenberg 's assessment of Sidney Webb : ‘ Although he passed through a Comtean phase that permanently altered his perspective from liberal individualism to organic collectivism , he had shed the positivist 's confidence in ultimate certainties as inconsistent with empiricism and democracy by the time he proclaimed himself a socialist in 1886 . ’ |
| 16 | He proclaimed himself a devout servant of the God of Israel . |
| 17 | He afforded himself a quick glance at Plummer , who was still struggling with his spaghetti . |
| 18 | Then he spilled himself a puddle of wine and , dipping one gloved finger in the puddle , drew a plan of his mother 's estate-village in relation to the deserted plague village . |
| 19 | He believed himself a near-monster , a deformity , a half-Human creature born of a sorcerer 's mismanaged spell-weaving . |
| 20 | He allowed himself a smile . |
| 21 | He allowed himself a little smile , which vanished from his face when he felt the car slowing , and glimpsed through the misted window the place the facilitator had brought him to . |
| 22 | He allowed himself a faint smile of satisfaction then slipped the five-dollar note under Rosie 's glass and left the bar . |
| 23 | He allowed himself a slight smile . |
| 24 | He allowed himself a small , tight smile as she clenched her teeth and remained staring him full in the face , determined not to give him the satisfaction of accepting his subtle invitation to check his statement . |
| 25 | He allowed himself a faint , impersonal smile , then he stood up . |
| 26 | He allowed himself a small satisfied smile . |
| 27 | Though he allowed himself no fewer than four books ( She , Ayesha , She and Allan and Wisdom 's Daughter ) in which to analyse this character , he never seems to have decided exactly what she was meant to represent or how far she was intended to be a symbol of the ‘ world 's desire ’ . |
| 28 | He fetched himself a scotch from the mini-bar and dismissed the matter from his thoughts . |
| 29 | He poured himself a cup of tea and drank it , selfconsciously , very aware of her sitting tensely beside him . |
| 30 | He poured himself a cup of coffee from his private flask and watched the white gulls lift and scatter against the dull grey sky . |