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 ’ . |