Example sentences of "himself for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They say he would beat up the devil himself for a shilling , ’ replied Barney . |
| 2 | TV COMIC Tony Slattery has sketched himself for a charity auction — starkers . |
| 3 | Malone fined himself for a lack of discipline on Saturday as Ards lost 2-0 to the Blues . |
| 4 | He cursed himself for a fool . |
| 5 | Instinctively all on the walls and ramparts ducked , even Seton , who then cursed himself for a fool . |
| 6 | ENGLAND manager Graham Taylor is faces up to the most important year of his career , already bracing himself for a row which could undermine his World Cup plans . |
| 7 | mother you do not have to stay there , why , I mean he 's quite capable looking after himself for a weekend , you know my father had a series of stroke 's when he was in his fifties |
| 8 | The sharp coldness pierced his skull and he opened his eyes , preparing himself for a Forest . |
| 9 | Eckersley himself for a time worked for Sir Oswald Mosley [ q.v. ] , joining the New Party and involving himself subsequently in commercial broadcasting schemes which interested Mosley also . |
| 10 | He saw the stone face and the living face unbelievably alike , and checked in his steady advance , himself for a moment still as stone . |
| 11 | ‘ Be quiet , child , ’ said Philip , laying a hand restrainingly on Harry 's arm , though he would have preferred to lay it about his ears if he could have had him to himself for a moment . |
| 12 | You know me , I run with the hare an' hunt with the hounds : I 'd suck up to the devil himself for a penny . ’ |
| 13 | Kruger collected 7,582 points at Sheffield , where Brannen decided to withdraw after eight events , saving himself for a multi-events meeting at Stoke this week , where he hopes to battle his way to the top of the rankings . |
| 14 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 15 | The second , referred to obscurely in Helen 's last letter from Margate , was Mr Thomas 's decision that Edward should not take up a Civil Service post , but instead prepare himself for an Oxford entrance scholarship . |
| 16 | Undismayed , he haled an old man out of the audience , stuck him in the chair , and then spoke himself for an hour and answered all the questions . |
| 17 | The serious business of gaining an Oxford scholarship and some measure of financial independence had begun and , for a time , gave Edward the drive necessary to matriculate easily as a non-collegiate student at Oxford , to live in lodgings there , and to attend a full course of lectures to prepare himself for an entrance scholarship to Balliol , Merton , or Lincoln . |
| 18 | Later he reproves himself for an impulse to be rude to a ‘ good auld guy ’ encountered during his terminal search for a bus , and we think of the prating ‘ good old man ’ Polonius . |