Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] himself [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though these men were perfectly acceptable to Theodore , Wilfrid is said to have declared himself unable to serve God in unity with them because he regarded them as strangers to the Catholic Church ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 30 ) . |
| 2 | He knew that he was going to have to give himself one night 's sleep at least , one night when he would n't be bent into the back of a freezing car or upright on a chair . |
| 3 | Access to Pharaoh : Ramesses II is known to have made himself available even to ordinary petitioners ( compare 5:15ff . ) . |
| 4 | He had to struggle to convince himself that Cutter 's heroic stature was not a tiny bit reduced by this peculiar name . |
| 5 | His eye was watching the barley while he was thinking about the outing he had decided to give himself that evening . |
| 6 | She wondered if she 'd walk out into a scene , or whether Ace had managed to extricate himself unscathed from the encounter as she left the relative comfort of the ladies ' room . |