Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] himself [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William was just five months 11 days old at the start ; he had already sailed over 1,500 miles , was the contented centre of attention and was still fresh from triumph in the fancy dress competition , where he earned himself the prize of a furry whale for his appearance as a white mouse . |
| 2 | But one feels now that the man who stood on the soapbox and who made himself a target for eggs is ready for it . |
| 3 | An extra bottle of wine and some spare grub and he had himself a harmless court jester whose sallies were guaranteed to shock or amuse . |
| 4 | He was once a social security Minister and he does himself no credit by forgetting that there are two sides to every argument . |
| 5 | Parr was not a hasty man , and he gave himself a lot of space to think in . |
| 6 | No finer example of this can be seen than Castle Acre Priory , 1935 , in which the gaunt power of the medieval ruins is starkly silhouetted against the sky , and he permits himself a rare range of tonal contrast . |
| 7 | Any white spirit would do for him , he was n't fussy , and he poured himself a stiff vodka , some of that Polish stuff they had brought back from their Black Sea summer holiday . |
| 8 | And he poured himself a drink . |
| 9 | Warnie was a natural historian , and he set himself the task of putting all these documents into chronological order . |
| 10 | An expert can now make a final determination about the construction of documents provided he asks himself the right question . |
| 11 | In 1686 he became a London alderman , sitting for Broad Street ; but he discharged himself the following year , probably in anticipation of the purging of Anglicans from the bench . |
| 12 | Not that his system was susceptible to such discomforts , but he fancied himself an empathic soul . |
| 13 | Brian Clough , the Forest manager , said : ‘ His contract was not expiring but he deserved a rise for the contribution he has made over the last 12 months -so he earned himself a new deal . ’ |
| 14 | THE GASH sustained by Carroll House after he proved himself a cut above the rest of Europe in Sunday 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe looked a lot less serious than had been feared when Britain 's new equine hero was examined on his return to Newmarket yesterday , writes John Karter . |
| 15 | As I was saying : they dig up that and also Francis 's moment of passion when he made himself a father — which must have been more than twenty years ago ! |
| 16 | Ronni followed him back into the sitting-room and stood awkwardly watching him as he poured himself a whisky . |
| 17 | Laura told Ross now as he poured himself a cool drink . |
| 18 | Though he allowed himself no fewer than four books ( She , Ayesha , She and Allan and Wisdom 's Daughter ) in which to analyse this character , he never seems to have decided exactly what she was meant to represent or how far she was intended to be a symbol of the ‘ world 's desire ’ . |