Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] himself [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whitlock , who has been at the centre of the storm , has not made himself available to take part . |
| 2 | Perhaps Lucker has not made himself visible enough to justify the cost . |
| 3 | Murray did not make himself available for conversation through the rest of the week . |
| 4 | He did not allow himself many enjoyable things in life . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The right wing candidate does not make himself available for interview and could not be contacted over the weekend . |
| 9 | 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 . |