Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] himself [art] " in BNC.

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1 St Albans Crown Court heard how 50 year old David Lashley raped and killed the 24 year old after earning himself the reputation of a habitual rapist .
2 When a girl was a marriageable age , her father advertised this by placing a pot of sweet basil on the windowsill of his house ; the young man interested in finding himself a bride would send a matchmaker to her parents , as guarantors of his good character .
3 He normally managed this by allowing himself a few seconds of pure indulgence in sensation and then thinking of something neutral for a while and , if this did n't work , something really horrible .
4 Sam solved this by getting himself a loading job .
5 Callaghan was confused at finding himself the centre of attention .
6 By PETER STANFORD is right in maintaining ( Weekend Guardian , November 4 ) that Graham Greene is not alone in calling himself a ‘ Catholic agnostic ’ .
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