Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] himself [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he has done himself some damage and will need to work hard , and with some care , if he is to secure re-election to the shadow Cabinet in November . |
| 2 | ‘ I feel ashamed to tell you this , Father , but Michael has bought himself another club , this time a bordello . ’ |
| 3 | He had to struggle to convince himself that Cutter 's heroic stature was not a tiny bit reduced by this peculiar name . |
| 4 | The same has happened at the Department of the Environment : Christopher Patten has conducted himself this week as the antithesis of an ideologue . |
| 5 | and erm of course computers did n't help in the slightest because er , I think the er , I may be wrong about this but as I understood it erm the computer programmer worked for West Suffolk but at the time of reorganization he 'd got himself another job . |
| 6 | Pöhl said that his decision had been made to give himself more time for his family and private interests and was prompted by " neither resignation nor frustration " . |
| 7 | His eye was watching the barley while he was thinking about the outing he had decided to give himself that evening . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , say I then took Fiona off him and maybe I told him to go find himself another filly and the next thing was he got a pincer-hold on my ear and was bopping me one on the nose and there I was bleeding fit to fill the Frenchy furrows so naturally I gave him one back . ’ |
| 9 | He did n't seem upset that it was empty and Trent had the feeling that , given the chance , the President would have poured himself another whisky and drunk it for something to do rather than from desire for alcohol . |
| 10 | Douglas nodded and went to pour himself another cup of tea . |
| 11 | Before we leave Glamorgan , a word of congratulation to Stephen James , who has been opening in place of Butcher and compiling runs with the kind of technique that reveals how earnestly he is trying to establish himself this summer . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was just embarrassment — the memory of how he had shamed himself that time when she had comforted him . |
| 13 | He had told himself that his name was Michael Holly , he had set himself that challenge . |
| 14 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 15 | Shivering the night away in the reeking darkness of the tunnels , he had asked himself this question more than once . |
| 16 | Richie had poured himself another whisky and soda . |
| 17 | and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job . |
| 18 | Shane 's bought himself another car . |