Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] himself [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came back to England and went on drinking champagne alone , and nerved himself to do a TV series without Fred . |
| 2 | It happened that he decided to go back and found himself commanding a squadron on operations at about the same time that Salmon and Gluxstein as we called the two German battle wagons , decided to leave Brest , head up through the Channel and escape the wrath of the Navy and whatever airborne effort we could produce in the teeth of extraordinarily adverse weather conditions at the time . |
| 3 | General Montgomery , who had been brought back from Italy to take a very prominent part in the ‘ D day ’ operation and the subsequent advance through France , Belgium , Holland and Germany , had been appointed Field Marshall and found himself considered a hero of the people , wherever he went . |
| 4 | In an attempt to fulfil his promise to prevent Aristide from taking office on Feb. 7 , Lafontant declared himself provisional president , and committed himself to create a " true democracy " and to " wipe out the blot and bloody insult " of the Dec. 16 election . |
| 5 | When he turned his head he kept his eyes closed , let out his breath , opened his eyes , looked and heard himself give a little whimpering sigh . |
| 6 | Peter gazed out of the window as if steeling himself to make a confession . |
| 7 | Then he could think back over the rising and understand and admit its weaknesses and set himself to imagine a better future … |