Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] himself [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having set out his stall , Lord Devlin goes on to ask himself three questions , the answers to which , he suggests , will provide the evidence to back up his earlier assertion . |
| 2 | Salmond has since shown himself responsive to calls for cross-party unity among the opposition , but Brian Wilson ( ‘ The Union strikes back ’ , 24 April ) seems still to be revelling in partisan spite . |
| 3 | This points the way to the culturalist approach to which Hirsch has elsewhere shown himself sympathetic . |
| 4 | Whitlock , who has been at the centre of the storm , has not made himself available to take part . |
| 5 | Perhaps Lucker has not made himself visible enough to justify the cost . |
| 6 | Part of England 's concern is that Gooch has already declared himself unavailable for next winter 's tour of West Indies . |
| 7 | He has often shown himself ready to make concessions when faced with genuine mass discontent . |
| 8 | With Hartie mortally wounded by the vengeful NZRU council , Kirwan has now made himself available and the newly appointed backs coach Earle Kirton has been heard suggesting that ‘ King John ’ might be assigned a new role at centre , a position he is successfully filling for his second division Italian club Thiene who are coaches by another Kiwi , John Boe . |
| 9 | IF Gidon Saks has been in the last year the bovver boy of Scottish Opera , singing splendidly but speaking out of turn , he has surely redeemed himself this week directing the RSAMD Opera Class in two productions at the New Athenaeum . |
| 10 | Running towards him , he saw Tubby shift over to make himself more comfortable . |
| 11 | Lewis does not set out to make himself cleverer than the reader , stili less cleverer than the authors whom he is discussing . |
| 12 | For all his arrogance , William Bentley is still at heart an innocent boy , a fourteen-year-old brought up to believe himself superior and privileged and flattered at receiving the trust of his uncle , whom he admires for his firmness of purpose . |
| 13 | He knew so little of women that he felt as though he had woken up to find himself halfway across a vast mountain in a blizzard without map or rope or compass . |
| 14 | Murray did not make himself available for conversation through the rest of the week . |
| 15 | He did not allow himself many enjoyable things in life . |
| 16 | Likewise , Maxse turned on Bonar Law when he ditched the ‘ food taxes ’ from the tariff programme , and again did not find himself alone in voicing criticism of the new Tory leader . |
| 17 | To this severe driving home of the issue in pursuit of crisis and clarity , Stavrogin might fairly reply that he did n't create himself lukewarm . |
| 18 | Jed 's idea of doing something special was to be allowed to help her out on the estate , almost as if he was afraid that he 'd find himself abandoned if he did n't make himself useful . |
| 19 | Yet at other points the problem is rather the hijacking of the original message , as in the phenomenal lines : ‘ If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today/ He 'd be gunned down cold by the CIA/ Oh the lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass/ Will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart/ But God did n't build himself that throne/ God does n't live in Israel or Rome/ God does n't belong to the ‘ yankee dollar ’ / God does n't plant the bombs for Hezbollah ’ . |
| 20 | We both thought that following 9 … f5 ? ! 10. f3 Black had somewhat weakened himself 9 … |
| 21 | And then , six weeks after the funeral , he had suddenly found himself able to believe that it had n't happened , not in that way , and that the whole horror was a childhood fantasy . |
| 22 | Since he had been hailed as the new John Edrich and had already shown himself capable of taking on that mantle , it was a bad blow for England . |
| 23 | Hall said afterwards that he had not realized himself capable of such sustained accurate bowling , but kept at it simply because Worrell wanted him to ; he also said that he was physically and mentally shattered at the end of it . |
| 24 | For the merest instant , some final , irreducible unit of desire , he had glimpsed a feeling , an urge within himself he had not imagined himself capable of , but now this tiny , standard piece of information , these few letters , had switched his hopes off like some cheap light bulb . |
| 25 | The right wing candidate does not make himself available for interview and could not be contacted over the weekend . |
| 26 | He is only an ordinary Hobbit who came to own the Ring because he was given it and he does not consider himself great enough to do anything with it except destroy it . |
| 27 | When Keith Vaughan left for a holiday in France in July 1948 , he had momentarily found himself alone at Hamilton Terrace and again reported to Edie on his progress . |
| 28 | Tammuz' jaded beliefs were not that novel : Quincx had heard them spill from many a Tech-Green 's lips ; but then Ewan had always thought himself unique . |
| 29 | Nigel had once made himself unpopular at the office by writing in his column that women past thirty should shoot themselves . |
| 30 | He had moreover made himself disagreeable to many contemporary naturalists , and his posthumous reputation has been well below what it was in his earlier life , when he was seen as the British Cuvier . |