Example sentences of "could [verb] himself [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could count himself lucky to have got where he had got in an all-American company . |
| 2 | If only he could give himself more time . |
| 3 | Hope could picture himself comforting Mrs Crump , shoring up the memory of her husband , praising him , assessing him , recalling ‘ mots ’ , reporting favourable comments , and then in would come the daughter , dressed entirely in black , and he would say , would be forced to say no matter what the consequences were , that the child was like the man . |
| 4 | And before he could stop himself some part of his brain that had nothing to do took control of his mouth and added , ‘ Heroes , in fact . ’ |
| 5 | He could cut himself free on the coral . |
| 6 | If he could help himself this would be mental vandalism ; but he ca n't ; Stavrogin 's are yawns that refuse to be stifled ; automatism and involuntarism are finally one , and the tragic villain-hero who at once apprehends the ‘ sensible idea ’ and yawns at it betrays a high but helpless intelligence recalling Raskolnikov as well as Svidrigailov . |
| 7 | So too is Martin Ling ; new signing , but an old face , Paul Bodin could find himself straight back in action . |