Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] himself [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all that history of service and success behind him , Austin remains as sharp and on the ball as ever , having only stopped swimming himself some three years ago . |
| 2 | World Cup winning captain Nick Farr-Jones as finally decided to make himself available for the Wallabies ’ domestic Test matches against Scotland and the New Zealand All Blacks . |
| 3 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 4 | He was just trying to make himself sound big . |
| 5 | In fact , William Bates is no longer entitled to call himself chartered accountant as he let his membership lapse when he did not pay his dues last year . |
| 6 | There was always an angry expression on his face , and he did not even try to keep himself clean and tidy . |
| 7 | Whoever his receptionist was , he 'd be well advised to find himself another one … |
| 8 | There were times when John le Grant wondered how Tobie managed to be such a very good doctor and yet fail to ask himself primary questions about Nicholas . |